Brigham's Utah

People talking about what we should change because it’s correcting mistakes of the past for the present or shouldn’t change because it’s denying the reality of history has me thinking about Grandstaff Canyon.  It’s one of the most beautiful trails in the Moab, Utah area, and it has a history to it. Brace yourselves, because it was once known as “Nigger Bill Canyon.” I think you’d be awfully hard-pressed to find many people who would seriously defend keeping that name if it were as it still stood today.   It’s a strange word to carry so much weight; those who use it in its basic form have often been associated with illiteracy, low standing, vulgarity and contempt for not only people but good manners; but it’s born out of slovenly pronunciation of the once perfectly acceptable “negro,” the Spanish word for black, and “nègre,” the French word for black.  The southeast regions of the United States where slavery was most commonly practiced were previously colonized by the