Mt. McKinley is once again Denali
President Obama has just changed the name of the mountain: Article on renaming So will they now start to call it "McKinley National Park?" And in other news, the president will once again be ...
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A couple years ago or so on the last US congressional hearing attempt to officially change the mountain's official name for the multiple time, failed once again....
A few days after the US congressional hearing, the state of Alaska lawmakers on their next session not only voted unanimously to keep the official name of the mountain recognized as simply "Denali" , but this time placed a clause to never recognize the Mount McKinley name ever again....
Which meant in the eyes of the state of Alaska, the official name has always been "Denali" since 1975 when the state requested the federal government to officially change the name to Denali but was denied, but in the eyes of the US Gov't the official name has always been "Mount McKinley" since 1917 when they officially named the mountain.
However as roughly 35 years ago in 1980, the US National Park Service officially changed the park's name from Mt. McKinley Nat'l Park to Denali Nat'l Park....
What I do not understand (or did not know) is now all of a sudden after all these past congressional hearings about changing the official name had failed by US lawmakers, now the Department of Interior secretary all of a sudden has the power to officially change the name of the mountain on an order (which they termed it the Dep't of Interior and the White House to give the US president additional credit), and why did it take this long and wasted past sessions to finally change the name officially....
When I was in grade school, all the textbooks taught the name as Mt. McKinley...until I arrived in Alaska in 1982 almost every Alaskan has called the mountain "Denali", which is the athabaskan language meaning the great one that has cultural meaning.
For the one that took their picture standing on the summit, very impressive and where is your oxygen mask ?
A few days after the US congressional hearing, the state of Alaska lawmakers on their next session not only voted unanimously to keep the official name of the mountain recognized as simply "Denali" , but this time placed a clause to never recognize the Mount McKinley name ever again....
Which meant in the eyes of the state of Alaska, the official name has always been "Denali" since 1975 when the state requested the federal government to officially change the name to Denali but was denied, but in the eyes of the US Gov't the official name has always been "Mount McKinley" since 1917 when they officially named the mountain.
However as roughly 35 years ago in 1980, the US National Park Service officially changed the park's name from Mt. McKinley Nat'l Park to Denali Nat'l Park....
What I do not understand (or did not know) is now all of a sudden after all these past congressional hearings about changing the official name had failed by US lawmakers, now the Department of Interior secretary all of a sudden has the power to officially change the name of the mountain on an order (which they termed it the Dep't of Interior and the White House to give the US president additional credit), and why did it take this long and wasted past sessions to finally change the name officially....
When I was in grade school, all the textbooks taught the name as Mt. McKinley...until I arrived in Alaska in 1982 almost every Alaskan has called the mountain "Denali", which is the athabaskan language meaning the great one that has cultural meaning.
For the one that took their picture standing on the summit, very impressive and where is your oxygen mask ?
