Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are forced to sit APART at the Cannes Film Festival awkward seating blunder The mountain, as well as the nearby and now-extinct town of Swastika, was named after a cattle ranch in the early 1900s before Hitler's rise to power, according to Tymchuk. The word 'swastika' comes from the South Asian language Sanskrit and means 'being fortunate' or 'well being'. A variation on the symbol appropriated by the Nazis is a historic Hindu symbol. It's not very well-known throughout the state the vast majority of people likely never even knew it was there,' he added. 'It's in a national forest, not accessible to many people like Mount Hood or Mount St. 'It is not a very well-known mountain, and frankly, I didn't know there was one,' Tymchuk told NPR. Kerry Tymchuk, executive secretary at the historical society, told NPR McClain was the first person he knows of to submit a request for the mountain. McClain wrote to the Oregon Geographic Names Board and filed to propose a name change. The mountain was not well-known before the rescue and its name went undetected for more than 100 years 'People need to come forward and take action when they see something that isn't right or needs to be changed because one person can make a difference, and this shows how that is so true,' McClain told NPR at the time. She responded by starting a petition to have its name changed. Oregon woman Joyce McClain, 81, read about the rescue mission and couldn't believe a mountain still had such a name in 2022. Their rescue triggered a news release from the US Coast Guard, which named peak 'Swastika Mountain'. The relatively unknown mountain emerged on the public radar in January 2022, when two teenagers were reported missing after hiking near the mountain. His tribal village was located 20 miles west of the mountain. In the 1850s, Chief Halo made a stand by refusing to be relocated to the Grand Ronde Reservation as local tribes were removed from their land in the Umpqua Valley. The change was approved in a 19-3 vote in December and came into effect late last month, according to the Register-Guard.Īn earlier proposal suggested calling it Umpqua Mountain, but the petitioner withdrew it in support of adopting the name Mount Halo, according to materials from the state board reviews by the newspaper. Chief Halo (pictured) made a stand by refusing to be relocated to the Grand Ronde Reservation as local tribes were removed from their land
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