Who gets to name things?
Two western peaks named for the confederate president work their way through a bureaucratic name-changing process.
Doso Doyabi (left) Wheeler Peak (right), Nevada: Public Domain via NPS
Da-ek dow Go-et, California
“Language deficit is attention deficit. As we further deplete our ability to name — describe particular aspects of our places — our competence for understanding and imagining possible relationships with non-human nature is correspondingly depleted.” - Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks
“Once, from eastern ocean to western ocean, the land stretched away without names. Nameless headlands split the surf; nameless lakes reflected nameless mountains; and nameless rivers flowed through nameless valleys into nameless bays. Men came at last, tribe following tribe, speaking different languages and thinking different thoughts. According to their ways of speech and thought they gave names, and in their generations laid their bones by the streams and hills they had named. But even when tribes and languages had vanished, some of those old names, reshaped, still lived in the speech of those who followed.” - George R. Stewart, Names on the Land
Denali. // Photo: Tim Rains, Public Domain via National Parks Service
Irvin Jim Jr. with son - Hope Valley, CA
Salted Caramel - Black Twig Pickers • Mountains - Yclept Insan
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