Denali vs. McKinley: A brief history of the long debate over what to call North America’s highest mountain
President Donald Trump says he’s changing the official name of Alaska’s — and North America’s — tallest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley. It’s the latest chapter in a long struggle over what the mountain should be called.
US’ highest mountain called Denali for thousands of years, and Mount McKinley for nearly a century
The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great one" to be restored.
Denali Denali (21,310 ft.), located in Alaska’s Denali National Park, the highest peak in North America and a member of the ...
Among the roughly 200 executive orders President Donald Trump is expected to sign during his first day in office is a ...
Trump said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and ...
For decades, Alaskans and Indigenous groups petitioned for the name to be changed back to Denali. Their efforts faced ...
It is possible... President Donald Trump's executive orders propose bold changes to some of America's iconic landmarks.
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