We walked the short path back to our campsite and quickly put everything away for the evening. ![]() There have been several efforts to change the name to Bear Lodge, a translation from the Lakota Mato Tipila, but they’ve been shot down every time. “One of the tactics is to take away the place names,” she said. Some think it was just a bad translation others, like the ranger, think it might have been intentional. ![]() Yet when Army Commander Richard Irving Dodge visited in 1875 on a scientific expedition, he wrote that the Indians called it Bad God Tower, which he changed to Devil’s Tower. The nations that consider it sacred call it Bear’s Lodge, Home of the Bear, Aloft on a Rock, Tree Rock, Great Gray Horn, Brown Buffalo Horn – none of which mean “devil.” When we sat down, the ranger, a petite and passionate Native American woman, was explaining that more than twenty tribes consider Devils Tower a sacred monument. After dinner we sauntered over to the amphitheater for the evening program, which had already started. It felt like a Western-y type meal to make on our first night in Wyoming. That night I breaded pork chops and paired them with a salad of iceberg, cherry tomatoes, cheese, and ranch dressing.
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