SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane City Council has voted unanimously to change the name of Fort George Wright Drive, a street named for a now-reviled Indian fighter.
The road will be called Whistalks Way in honor of a female warrior and Spokane Indian who played a role in the resistance against Wright in 1858.
Col. George Wright led a violent campaign against Indian tribes to suppress their resistance as white settlers spread across the land of the Yakama, Palouse, Coeur d’Alene and Spokane tribes in the mid-19th century.