| LC control no. | sh2004014744 |
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| Geographic heading | Black Elk Peak (S.D.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | South Dakota--Black Elk Peak |
| Variant(s) | Black Elk's Peak (S.D.) Harney, Mount (S.D.) Harney Peak (S.D.) Harney's Peak (S.D.) Hinhan Hopi (S.D.) Hinhan Kaga (S.D.) Hinhan Kaga Paha (S.D.) Mount Harney (S.D.) Okawita Paha (S.D.) Opahata I (S.D.) Saint Elmo Peak (Pennington County, S.D.) |
| See also | Mountains--South Dakota Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) |
| Found in | Work cat.: Redden, J. Geology of the Harney Peak granite, Black Hills, South Dakota, 1982. GNIS, Dec. 14, 2004 (Harney Peak, summit, S.D.; 43°51ʹ58ʺN, 103°31ʹ52ʺW; variant name(s): Black Elk Peak, Harney's Peak, Mount Harney, Saint Elmo Peak) GNIS summit; 43°51ʹ58ʺN 103°31ʹ52ʺW GNIS, Feb. 1, 2018 (Black Elk Peak, summit, Pennington County, SD; 43°51ʹ58ʺN, 103°31ʹ52ʺW; variants: Black Elk's Peak, Harney Peak, Harney's Peak, Hinhan Hopi, Hinhan Kaga, Hinhan Kaga Paha, Mount Harney, Okawita Paha, Opahata I, Saint Elmo's Peak; history: named Harney Peak in the late 1850s by Lieutenant G K Warren in honor of General William S Harney, commander of the military in the Black Hills area in the late 1870s. Renamed in 2016 by the BGN in honor of Black Elk (1863-1950), medicine man and holy man of the Oglala Lakota Sioux; also another Saint Elmo Peak in Pennington County) Associated Press, Aug. 12, 2016 (A federal board on Thursday renamed Harney Peak in the Black Hills to Black Elk Peak, saying the name of the state's highest peak was derogatory to Native Americans because Harney was a general whose soldiers massacred Indians) |
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