The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North ...

America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

who named it after then-presidential candidate McKinley. In 1916—before the area was named a national park—Charles Sheldon asked the Alaska Engineering Commission to call it “‘Mt Denali ...

A few said it’s more patriotic to have a national name ... Todd, Anchor Point Denali, because that heritage is in Alaska’s heart and soul. — Steve, Anchorage Mt. McKinley.

is in Denali National Park and Preserve. A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska. The name was formally recognized ...

A common sentiment in Alaska is that while President Donald Trump has ordered the name of North America’s tallest peak to be changed from Denali ... of the change: “Mt. McKinley, as it was ...