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

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 ...

Mr. Obama was paying tribute to the state’s Native population, which has referred to the site for generations as Denali, meaning “the high one” or “the great one.” Needless to say ...

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 ...

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.