The decree undoes the work of former President Barack Obama, who, in 2015 officially changed the name from MountMcKinley to Denali, the peak’s traditional name from the Koyukon Athabascan ...
“That applies here too.” MountDenali, soon to be reverted to MountMcKinley, was renamed by President Obama in 2015 per the request of the Koyukon, an Alaskan native group. They had been ...
The name reflected the colonial tendency to impose non-Indigenous names on significant landmarks, as Mckinley had little connection to the state of Alaska or the mountain. Denali (Formerly Mount ...
Jeff King, the four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race winner, takes a selfie with his dog team as they approach MountMcKinley, near Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (Jeff King/AP ...