South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard opposed the name change, as did other state officials, and no action was taken in 2015. Neihardt from long talks with the shaman. He became known beyond the Lakota in part through the book Black Elk Speaks (1932), written by John G. The Lakota Council of the Pine Ridge Reservation and descendants of Black Elk, a noted medicine man, supported naming it for him, as the national wilderness area around the peak is named for the shaman. Some Lakota requested state officials in 2015 to reinstate their original name Hinhan Kaga for the peak. A Korean War veteran, he felt that Harney had not honored the military with his action. In 2014 the Sioux renewed their effort to get the name changed, in an effort led by Basil Brave Heart of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. ![]() The Lakota have tried to get the name of the peak changed for 50 years, as Harney had massacred their people. Harney later commanded the United States military in the Black Hills area in the late 1870s. In punitive retaliation for other Sioux raids, in September 1855 Harney's forces killed Brulé Sioux warriors, women and children in what Americans called the Battle of Blue Water Creek in Garden County, Nebraska. Harney, his commander in a regional military expedition. ![]() The mountain was named Harney Peak in 1855 by American Lieutenant Gouverneur K. They considered it a sacred site within the Black Hills, which they call Pahá Sápa, also written He Sapa. They dominated this region and occupied the territory at the time of European colonization. This peak was called Hinhan Kaga ("Making of Owls", after rock formations that look like owls and the association of owls with impending death) by the Lakota Sioux).
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