President Donald Trump has changed the name of Alaska's Denali back to Mount McKinley. It's a nod to President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and who never set foot ...
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 ...
signed an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley, an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska. He said he planned ...
In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.
(RNS) — In his second inauguration address on Monday (Jan. 20), President Donald Trump repeated his customary campaign speech promises to improve the United States’ credibility around the ...
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 ...
there was "confusion among travelers from outside [the state], as Mount McKinley was the widely known name, while Denali was used in Alaska. It took time for Denali to gain more national ...
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 ...
The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.