Alaska Legislature asks Trump to retain Denali's name instead of change it to Mount McKinley
The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of ...
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Alaska lawmakers push back on Trump's Mount Denali name change
President Donald Trump's order to change the name of the highest mountain in the US faced pushback Friday from members of his ...
Trump says McKinley, but Denali forever a popular Alaskan sentiment
North America’s tallest peak is renamed Mt. McKinley, but many Alaskans favor a name that spans deep into history.
Alaskans say Trump can change the name of Denali but can’t make people call it Mount McKinley
North America’s tallest peak is a focal point of Jeff King’s life. The four-time winner of the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) ...
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Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico now renamed to Gulf of America, Denali to Mount McKinley
In 2015, Mount McKinley was renamed by then-President Barack Obama to Denali, the traditional Native Alaskan name. It had long informally been known in Alaska as Denali, despite the official ...
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Jon Krakauer and Other Prominent Climbers React to Denali's Name Change to Mount McKinley
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Alaska’s 20,310-foot Denali, the highest peak in North America. The mountain’s name will revert to Mount McKinley, named for William ...
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US’ highest mountain called Denali for thousands of years, and Mount McKinley for nearly a century
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 ...
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A McKinley descendent voices a compromise after Trump orders Denali renamed
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to rename North America's tallest peak, known as Denali in Alaska, after President William McKinley, one ...
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Stark County Republican officials approve of Trump renaming Denali as Mount McKinley
The statement in the order called Obama's renaming of the mountain to Denali in 2015 "an affront to President McKinley's life, his achievements, and his sacrifice." Alaska's U.S. Sen. Lisa ...
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Alaska Native leaders call to preserve Denali name for Mount McKinley
In a statement on X, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski wrote, "I strongly disagree with the President's decision on Denali. Our nation's tallest mountain, which has been called Denali for thousands of ...
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Denali vs. McKinley: A brief history of the long debate over what to call North America’s highest mountain
In 1980, the park’s name was changed to Denali National Park and Preserve, but the mountain remained McKinley. Over a span of decades, Alaska’s congressional delegation repeatedly introduced ...
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President Trump promises to rename the mountain Denali as Mount McKinley
They say there is only one name worthy of the peak bestowed upon it by Alaska's native people - the name Denali. So how will Antonson refer to the mountain going forward? ANTONSON: Well ...