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  2. Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute - Wikipedia

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    The name of Denali, the highest mountain in North America, became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali". The name Denali is based on the Koyukon name of the mountain, Deenaalee ('the high one').

  3. Executive Order 14172 - Wikipedia

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    The Obama administration's action was criticized by the entire Congressional delegation from President McKinley's home state of Ohio. [12] In December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump stated at AmericaFest that he planned to revert the mountain's official name to Mount McKinley during his second term. Trump's proposal was met with criticism ...

  4. Denali - Wikipedia

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    In 1896, a gold prospector named it McKinley as political support for then-presidential candidate William McKinley, who became president the following year. The United States formally recognized the name Mount McKinley after President Woodrow Wilson signed the Mount McKinley National Park Act of February 26, 1917. [30]

  5. A McKinley descendent voices a compromise after Trump orders ...

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    The federal government officially recognized the mountain, which stands at a staggering 20,310 feet, as Mount McKinley in 1917. Before then, Indigenous groups had their own names for it, including ...

  6. Trump vows to rename Denali, North America's tallest ... - AOL

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    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was ...

  7. Trump directs renaming of Mount McKinley, Gulf of America - AOL

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    The order instructs that the highest mountain in the U.S. in Alaska be restored to its original 1917 name, Mount McKinley, in honor of the 15th president of the United States, William McKinley. In ...

  8. Denali National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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    The name of Mount McKinley National Park was subject to local criticism from the beginning of the park. The word Denali means "the high one" in the native Athabaskan language and refers to the mountain itself. The mountain was named after newly elected US president William McKinley in 1897 by local

  9. Alaskans say Trump can change the name of Denali but can't ...

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    The McKinley name stuck until 2015, when President Barack Obama’s administration changed it to Denali as a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of his Alaska visit to highlight climate change. Trump said he issued the order to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where ...