Native Alaskan language scholars say the name Denali had been used by Indigenous people for thousands of years for the tallest mountain in North America, found in Alaska. The mountain’s name ...

“The mountain was named 10,000 years ago by the native people, the Athabascans in the area, and it is called Denali, which means 'the great one',” Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski told CB ...

President Trump has ordered the name of North America's tallest peak to revert from Denali to its former name: Mount McKinley. We want to hear from you: What should Alaska's highest mountain be ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has stirred controversy by reversing an order that recognised the indigenous name of North America's tallest mountain. President Barack Obama changed the ...

The tallest mountain in North America was originally changed to the Koyukon Athabascan name Denali, which means "the high one" or "the great one," in 2015 by former President Barack Obama to honor ...

Among the sweep of executive orders signed by the new US president Donald Trump is the decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley. It’s a controversial move, but not unprecedented – just the ...

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, in a post on social media on Monday, said she strongly disagreed with Trump’s decision to change Denali’s name. “Our nation’s tallest mountain, which has been ...

In 2015, former President Barack Obama renamed it Denali, honoring the indigenous Koyukon Athabascan heritage. However, Trump’s order brings the mountain back to Mount McKinley, named after the ...

A video showing an unusual optical illusion around Denali, North America's tallest mountain, has gone viral on TikTok. The video, posted on January 2 by TikTok user @ak_amy_mae, has amassed 6 ...

The name reflected the colonial tendency to impose non-Indigenous names on significant landmarks, as Mckinley had little connection to the state of Alaska or the mountain. Denali (Formerly Mount ...

Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it ...