King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska ...
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...
Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, ...
Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...
“Denali respects the Indigenous people that have ... administration resolves a decades-long dispute between Alaska and Ohio. Aug. 30, 2015 At the time, there was no recognition of the name ...
After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975, the state moved to change the ...
Alaskans say they will never stop calling the peak Denali despite President Trump's executive order that the name revert to ...
That was the first year the state of Alaska petitioned to use the local name Denali instead of McKinley. Lawmakers from Ohio, McKinley’s home state, pushed back. But how do the people whose ...
The mountain, which stretches more than 20,000 feet high, has been informally known as Denali for decades and, in 1975, Alaskans began to push for a formal name change. Lawmakers from Ohio ...