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A brief history of debate over a mountain’s name

The Independent on MSN · 2d

Denali: Why is Donald Trump renaming cherished Alaska peak ‘Mount McKinley’?

Denali: Why is Donald Trump renaming cherished Alaska peak ‘Mount McKinley’? - The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain

Seattle Times · 3h

Denali versus McKinley: a brief history of the debate over a mountain’s name

President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.

Politifact · 1h

US’ highest mountain called Denali for thousands of years, and Mount McKinley for nearly a century

The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great one" to be restored.

Trump, Alaska

Alaska Public Media · 1d

Dunleavy praises Trump orders calling for more drilling, logging and mining in Alaska

Dunleavy offered no opinion on Trump's decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley, saying he wanted to speak with the president before sharing his own view.

Oil industry unlikely to rush to Alaska despite Trump's call to drill

U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's executive order enabling them to do so, company officials and industry representatives told Reuters,

The Washington Post · 1d

Trump targets Alaska's oil and other resources as environmentalists gear up for a fight

Alaska’s political leaders are cheering an expansive executive order signed by President Donald Trump that aims to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the state

Advnture on MSN2d

Denali, North America's tallest mountain, stripped of its indigenous name by President Trump

The peak was known as Mount McKinley until 2015, when President Obama changed it in recognition of its 10,000 year old ...

3d

Trump vows to change the name of Denali, North America's tallest peak, despite Alaska's wishes

Trump said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and ...

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