I support the efforts in Nashville to rename Cumberland Park to Wasioto Park in honor of the ancient Shawnee name of the Cumberland River. 

The renaming is fitting and appropriate for Nashville to begin recognizing Indigenous history and presence in the Nashville area both ancient and contemporary.

When the first European visitors, the French, traversed the river in the 1670's the Shawnees were so numerous at that time, living in villages in the Nashville area that the French called the waterway "the River of the Shawnees." Subsequently, another European visitor in 1758, upon seeing the river named it the Cumberland in honor of the Duke of Cumberland who never even set foot in the area, in fact never left England. 

- The Indigenous Peoples Coalition of Tennessee