President Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the country’s highest mountain from Denali to Mount McKinley.
Alaska House members passed a resolution Monday urging President Trump not to rename Mount Denali to Mount Mckinley. Trump ...
(McKinley served as president from 1987 until his assassination in 1901.) The name was officially changed to Denali, as a symbolic gesture to the Koyukon people, by the Obama administration in 2015.
The House resolution, sponsored by Rep. Maxine Dibert, D-Fairbanks, says the name Denali is “deeply ingrained in the state’s ...
The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution urging President Trump to maintain the name Denali for the state's highest peak, ...
The Alaska House has voted to urge President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali ...
Denali had officially been named Mount McKinley in the eyes of the government since 1917, and and the debate over its name had gone on for that long—if not longer—with the Koyukon Athabascan ...
The name, given by the Koyukon Athabascans, translates to “the great one” or the “high one.” Mr. McKinley first championed tariffs as a member of the House of Representatives in the late ...
Athabascans to the north and west of the range referred to “the high one” with varying names, including Deenalee in the Koyukon language, Denaze in Upper Kuskokwim and Denadhe in Tanana ...