The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge America's history of colonialism and restore Indigenous place names," says ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Bennett did issue guidance announcing that it would switch the name of Denali mountain back to Mount McKinley ... Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said that she opposed the move. She wrote, “Our nation's ...

A note on the name of the mountain: From 1917 to 2015, North America’s tallest mountain was officially named Mount McKinley. But over that century, Alaskans, climbers, and many others still ...

to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means “the high one” — the tallest mountain in North America ...

Garbage ‘crisis’ in St. Paul? Mayor Carter says so, but council president says he’s being ‘alarmist.’ President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday calling for North America's ...

Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs,” President Trump ...

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But in 1896, when the region was still marked as "unexplored" on official maps, a prospector dubbed it Mount McKinley, after the presidential candidate he happened to be supporting. By 1903 ...