And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

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

The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

DENALI BOROUGH, Alaska — Chris Noel is the ... Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a ...

Google has yet to change Denali back to Mount McKinley ... The Alaskan mountain was named for William McKinley in 1896, the year before he became president. McKinley was assassinated in 1901.

Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount ...

For weeks, a battle between the administration of President Donald Trump and The Associated Press has raged over Trump’s ...

Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office to change the name of the mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley, in honor of President William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901.

William McKinley, the 25th president ... announced the renaming of the peak to Denali "in recognition of the traditions of Alaska Natives and the strong support of the people of Alaska.” ...