TAOS, N.M. (AP) A northern New Mexico town council has voted to change the name a park named after Kit Carson. The Albuquerque Journal reports the Taos Town Council passed a resolution Tuesday to rename the downtown park Red Willow over concerns by critics that the famed scout was cruel to American Indians.
Carson, who died in in 1868, is buried in the cemetery at the park and his name is all over Taos. He largely is known as a famed explorer, trapper, soldier and American Indian agent. But Carson was ordered by the U.S. Army to march around 8,000 Navajo men, women and children 300 miles from Arizona to Fort Sumner, N.M., on what's called the “Long Walk'' a brutal attempt to relocate Navajos from their land.
