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{"id":5223,"date":"2025-01-22T05:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T05:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-order-seeks-to-change-the-name-of-north-americas-tallest-peak-from-denali-to-mount-mckinley\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T05:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T05:20:28","slug":"trump-order-seeks-to-change-the-name-of-north-americas-tallest-peak-from-denali-to-mount-mckinley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-order-seeks-to-change-the-name-of-north-americas-tallest-peak-from-denali-to-mount-mckinley\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump order seeks to change the name of North America&#8217;s tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1737428539000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) &mdash; President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday calling for North America&rsquo;s tallest peak &mdash; Denali in Alaska &mdash; to be renamed Mount McKinley, reviving an idea he&rsquo;d floated years ago and drawing a rebuke from Alaska&rsquo;s Republican senior senator. <\/p>\n<p>The order came hours after Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to &ldquo;restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in a statement said she disagrees strongly with Trump wanting to change Denali&rsquo;s name. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our nation&rsquo;s tallest mountain, which has been called Denali for thousands of years, must continue to be known by the rightful name bestowed by Alaska&rsquo;s Koyukon Athabascans, who have stewarded the land since time immemorial,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Park Service, a prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak &ldquo;Mount McKinley&rdquo; for William McKinley, who was elected president that year. McKinley <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-029bbb2ea1ed4f689966e55bb94c6a61\">had never been to Alaska<\/a><\/span>. The name was formally recognized by the U.S. government until it was changed <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/Aprospectorin1896dubbedthepeak%E2%80%9CMountMcKinley%E2%80%9DafterPresidentWilliamMcKinley,whohadneverbeentoAlaska.ThenamewasformallyrecognizedbytheU.S.governmentuntilitwaschangedbytheObamaadministration%E2%80%94anactthatdrewoppositionfromlawmakersinMcKinley%E2%80%99shomestateofOhio.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2015 by the Obama administration<\/a><\/span>  to Denali, to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and preference of many Alaskans. The move drew opposition from lawmakers in McKinley&rsquo;s home state of Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Denali is an Athabascan word meaning &ldquo;the high one&rdquo; or &ldquo;the great one.&rdquo; The iconic 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain, snow-capped and dotted with glaciers, is in Denali National Park and Preserve. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, a consortium of Athabascan tribes in Interior Alaska, spent years advocating for the peak to be recognized as Denali.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s executive order celebrates McKinley, saying the 25th president &ldquo;championed tariffs to protect U.S. manufacturing, boost domestic production, and drive U.S. industrialization and global reach to new heights.&rdquo; McKinley, a Republican, was assassinated early in his second term in 1901.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This order honors President McKinley for giving his life for our great Nation and dutifully recognizes his historic legacy of protecting America&rsquo;s interests and generating enormous wealth for all Americans,&rdquo; the document states.<\/p>\n<p>Messages seeking comment about the name change also were left for the other members of Alaska&rsquo;s congressional delegation and Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy. <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/national-national-general-news-6015f6b8dcd846289fe9ce3e9a6804be\">Alaska&rsquo;s U.S. senators in 2017<\/a><\/span>  vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali revert back to Mount McKinley. <\/p>\n<p>Trump revisited the topic <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/denali-mckinley-alaska-tallest-peak-donald-trump-990bfc96869ccb4f23cec6ec648b570e\">during a rally late last year<\/a><\/span>following his election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president,&rdquo; Trump said in December. &ldquo;They took his name off Mount McKinley, right? That&rsquo;s what they do to people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Alaska and Ohio had been at odds over the name for decades. Alaska had a standing request to change the name since 1975, when the legislature passed a resolution and then-Gov. Jay Hammond appealed to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>In the same executive order Monday, Trump also called for changing the name of the <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-gulf-of-mexico-bc438f4feca1234475a1adef99344da7\">Gulf of Mexico<\/a><\/span>  to the Gulf of America. <\/p>\n<p>Among other executive actions, Trump rescinded a 2023 decision by then-President Joe Biden barring drilling on nearly 3 million acres of the Beaufort Sea off the northern coast of Alaska. The U.S. Department of Interior at that time said there had not been a federal oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic Ocean since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 decision came around the same time the Biden administration approved a large oil project, known as Willow, in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, angering environmentalists. Litigation around the approval of Willow is still pending.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-denali-mckinley-alaska-57b2a44d878aa7ac927d346fcdf824b8\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) &mdash; President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday calling for North America&rsquo;s tallest peak &mdash; Denali in Alaska &mdash; to be renamed Mount McKinley, reviving an idea he&rsquo;d floated years ago and drawing a rebuke from Alaska&rsquo;s Republican senior senator. 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