It appears to be a nod to an admiration for President McKinley. In 2015, President Barack Obama bestowed the Denali name on the continent’s largest mountain in a move done to recognize “the ...

Renaming a place is always an act of power. People in power have long used place naming to claim control over the identity of ...

In 2015 President Barack Obama officially restored that name, noting that McKinley had “never set foot in Alaska” and that “Denali is a site of significant cultural importance to many Alaska ...

Alaska’s U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama changed the name to ...

In 1917, the federal government named it Mount McKinley to honor President McKinley but the name was changed to Denali in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama in a nod to Alaska Native tribes.

Interior Sec. Sally Jewell issued an order to change the name from Mount McKinley to Denali in 2015 during President Barack Obama's White House tenure. "President Obama wants to change the name of Mt.