Therefore, the board acted within its rights in 2015, when it recommended a name change for Harney Peak, even though it later reversed itself under pressure from the dominant culture, including ...

The payoff is a view that is only rivaled by it's sister peak just to the north. A glance in that direction and the Harney lookout tower stands tall on top South Dakota's highest peak.

In 2016, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names took a big step toward righting a wrong: The federal board renamed Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak. Army Gen. William S. Harney’s men massacred Native ...

RAPID CITY – 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.

Did you know that within a mile of Harney Peak, the highest point in America east of the Rockies, lies the tallest waterfall in western South Dakota? Or the headwaters ...

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 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 said Friday that the decision was ...

Letter: Re: Renaming Harney Peak Gail Cain, Sioux Falls So, South Dakota lawmakers want to limit the power of a state board to rename Harney Peak because lawmakers don’t consider the name offensive.

Harney Peak—the old granite mountain in the Black Hills—is as high as you can get in America before you reach the Rockies. Maybe. A bronze plaque on the mountain’s stone-built lookout tower ...