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Eugene

(63,147 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 12:52 PM Jan 26

Alaskans say Trump can change the name of Denali but can't make people call it Mount McKinley

Source: Associated Press

Alaskans say Trump can change the name of Denali but can’t make people call it Mount McKinley

By MARK THIESSEN
Updated 11:03 AM EST, January 26, 2025

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — North America’s tallest peak is a focal point of Jeff King’s life.

The four-time winner of the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race operates his kennel and mushing tourism business just 8 miles (12.87 kilometers) from Denali National Park and Preserve’s entrance, and the 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain looms large as he trains his dogs on nearby trails.

King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley -- an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.

For many who live near Denali, Trump’s suggestion was peculiar.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-alaska-denali-mckinley-name-39c6e735fc56f4046200259cfe9e9934

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Aristus

(69,075 posts)
1. Peculiar? What's peculiar about Trump trying to restore white imperialism?
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 12:58 PM
Jan 26

That's pretty much on-brand for him. It would have been more surprising if President "Gulf Of America" hadn't suggested it.

Eugene

(63,147 posts)
3. From paragraph five (trimmed for copyright limit) completes the thought.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 01:06 PM
Jan 26

Nobody the speaker in Alaska knows supports this.

thinkingagain

(1,232 posts)
9. Once something is known under one name
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 02:41 PM
Jan 26

It’s hard to make people think to call it something else.

For example the Battle of Bunker Hill
Most people know it as that
But it was really fought on Breeds hill
But almost no one calls the battle that.

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