Support building to return peak to Cherokee name
Ben BentonChattanooga Times Free PressLong before the misty peaks along the Tennessee-North Carolina border were called the Great Smoky Mountains, ...
Ben BentonChattanooga Times Free PressLong before the misty peaks along the Tennessee-North Carolina border were called the Great Smoky Mountains, the tallest of them was known not as Clingmans Dome but as Kuwohi.In Cherokee, it means 'the mulberry place.'On July 14, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council in Cherokee, North Carolina, unanimously passed a resolution proposing the original Cherokee name for the mountain just over the North Carolina state line be restored. The effort is gaining momentum with support from surrounding governments.