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.
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 ...
Then-President Obama used his executive power to rename the mountain Denali, which is derived from a Native Alaskan language. In his inaugural address, Trump described former President McKinley as ...
A view of Denali, North America's highest peak, in 2015, the year then-president Barack Obama changed its name from Mount McKinley to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and acknowledge ...
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