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The mountain[Mount McKinley ] will be renamed Denali, President Obama said Sunday, a day before traveling to the state.
Obama Will Restore Mt. McKinley's Name To Denali On Alaska Trip The peak was named Mount McKinley in 1896, but Alaska natives had long before called the mountain Denali, meaning "the High One."
Reuters Posted: 08/30/2015 05:11 PM EDT | Edited: 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle over what to call a peak that has been known as Mount McKinley. The historic change, coming at the beginning of a three-day presidential trip to Alaska, is a sign of how hard the White House will push during Obama's remaining 16 months as president to ensure his fight to address climate change is part of his legacy. Renaming the mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), makes headlines for his climate quest while also creating goodwill in a state that has not been broadly supportive to the Democratic president. www.huffingtonpost.com...
originally posted by: Answer
Denali is a cooler name anyway and McKinley was kind of a dick.
originally posted by: Christosterone
a reply to: Answer
Columbus was a dick....doesn't mean we get to rename Hispanola into whatever the indigenous word for craphole is....
-Christosterone
originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
You can continue to call it Mount McKinley, just like the locals kept referring to it as Denali.
Besides, it will continue to be known around the world as Mount McKinley, thanks to the various editions of Trivial Pursuit.
....last time I checked, "Everest" isn't a common word for Tibetans and Nepalese....
originally posted by: Annee
He's not renaming it.
It's being reverted back to the original name given to it by the Alaskan people.
Obama Will Restore Mt. McKinley's Name To Denali On Alaska Trip The peak was named Mount McKinley in 1896, but Alaska natives had long before called the mountain Denali, meaning "the High One."
Reuters Posted: 08/30/2015 05:11 PM EDT | Edited: 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle over what to call a peak that has been known as Mount McKinley. The historic change, coming at the beginning of a three-day presidential trip to Alaska, is a sign of how hard the White House will push during Obama's remaining 16 months as president to ensure his fight to address climate change is part of his legacy. Renaming the mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), makes headlines for his climate quest while also creating goodwill in a state that has not been broadly supportive to the Democratic president. www.huffingtonpost.com...
Alaska has been attempting to change the name to Denali for decades. However, its attempts to change it at a federal level have been blocked by Ohio, William McKinley's home state.
originally posted by: Answer
originally posted by: Christosterone
a reply to: Answer
Columbus was a dick....doesn't mean we get to rename Hispanola into whatever the indigenous word for craphole is....
-Christosterone
Well, considering the name wasn't changed to Mt. McKinley until 1917, your comparison is invalid.
originally posted by: jtma508
Did you read WHY the name change? Did you look into who wants and who DOESN'T want the name change? Obama isn't renaming jack. He's simply doing the administrative stuff.