Goodbye, #Yosemite. Hello, What ?
I dearly hope Delaware North loses, but I also hope that the National Park Service sticks with the new names, however ridiculous — and, while they’re at it, changes dozens of others. My vote would be to change Tenaya Lake to Pywiack Lake, relabel Yosemite Valley itself Ahwahnee and sprinkle the park with new historical plaques saying things like “On this spot, in 1851, American militiamen shot Tenaya’s son in the back, let him bleed out in the grass, then dragged #Tenaya up to have a look and enjoyed watching him weep.”
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/opinion/sunday/goodbye-yosemite-hello-what.html
#toponymie #colonialisme #mémoire #peuples_autochtones #parc_national