Like Mount McKinley's namesake, Gen. William Harney probably never visited Harney Peak, which sits in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was named for him by a military surveyor before the Civil War.

South Dakotans hate change. This age-old axiom is a badge of honor for the Mount Rushmore State, ... Feds rename Harney Peak, South Dakota's highest point. That decision was a poor one.

William S. Harney, the namesake of Harney Peak, was court-martialed four times during his Army career, and a meeting Monday in South Dakota’s capital city could be akin to a ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The 82-year-old Oglala Sioux member whose attempt to rechristen South Dakota’s highest point for a revered tribal spiritual leader fell on receptive federal ears sai… ...

Besides Harney Peak Thursday, the board considered 12 other requested name changes or requests to name unnamed places, Yost said. There was no notice or agenda of Thursday's meeting published on ...

2 South Dakota officials oppose renaming Harney Peak. Associated Press. Two members of Gov. Dennis Daugaard's cabinet are concerned about a push to rename Harney Peak with its Lakota name, ...

PIERRE, S.D. – A federal board’s Thursday decision to rename Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak surprised South Dakota’s governor, but vindicated activists who unsuccessfully argued to state ...

Harney Peak’s distinction as the “highest point in the U.S. east of the Rockies” is as rock-solid to many South Dakotans as the granite at the 7,242-foot summit.

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names decided on Thursday to rename South Dakota's highest peak, Harney Peak in the Black Hills National Forest. Its new name: Black Elk Peak. Black Elk was a Lakota ...