The Forest Service has proposed changing the Wayne National Forest's name to Buckeye National Forest at the request of tribes.
a Federal Advisory Committee to address derogatory and offensive geographic names. In 2022, they began discussing the issue with federally recognized American Indian Tribes with ancestral ties to Ohio. During those meetings, the tribes sought a name change for Wayne National Forest.
“This has been a discussion that has been ongoing for some time now with a whole contingency of different tribes that are no longer in Ohio,” added Devon Frazier, of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. “The word buckeye itself was important, as it reflects things important to Ohio today and connects to the past of the indigenous people who were removed,” said Frazier.
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