Posted on 02/06/2015 7:20:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
Lawmakers have failed in past attempts to rename North America’s highest mountain, but a new proposal may have a better chance this year under a Republican Congress, according to an aide to an Alaska lawmaker who is resurrecting the effort.
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have introduced a bill to give Mount McKinley its historical Alaska Native name.
The Alaska Republicans announced a Senate bill Wednesday to formally call the 20,320-foot mountain by its Athabascan name, Denali, KTUU reported. The bill comes after previous efforts by Murkowski failed. …
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This will end just like all these other renames - officially it might be called “Mount Denali,” but I will bet most people will call it by it’s current name (Mount McKinley)!
India just confused the hell out of their own people by trying to change all the place names to be politically correct. I know a 23 year old girl who still calls her hometown Bombay.
Yes, you will.
And the rest of us will join you for laughing at it.
The Alaska Legislature voted in 1975 to change the name of the mountain. The issue then went to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a federal agency in charge of such issues.
The federal board reviewed the issue and was expected to approve the name change when Regula introduced his first bill in 1977.
By Interior Department policy, the board is not allowed to consider a name change while the issue is pending in Congress.
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The mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Dickey of New Hampshire, a prospector who was digging for gold in the sands of the Susitna River.
After his Alaska adventure, Dickey wrote an account for the New York Sun about the magnificent mountain.
“We named our peak Mount McKinley after William McKinley of Ohio, who had been nominated for the presidency,” Dickey wrote.
According to most historical accounts, the naming was a political move because Dickey had met many silver miners who were promoting candidate William Jennings Bryan. Bryan favored a silver standard, while McKinley strongly supported the gold standard.
McKinley was assassinated in 1901 at the beginning of his second term as president. He never visited Alaska.
When Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980, the area surrounding the mountain was named Denali National Park and Preserve.
Obama’s Indian name is “Little Dog Humping Leg”
After reading your statement, then my statement is correct TODAY!
The offical name is Mount McKinley, but everyone there calls it by it’s original name, Mount Denali.
Murkowski is trying to get credit for doing something, that has already been done, by the people. Definitely a politician - or a boss!
I think fighting the Islamic Caliphate can wait until this serious issue is resolved.
Let’s name Alaska’s mountain Mount Obama.Don't give Reggie any ideas.
Ugh...! /s
No, it’s Mt. McKinley, named for one of the last great American presidents. McKinley’s assassination opened the door for a series of “progressive” reforms that changed America, mostly for the worse.
So call it Mt. Denali-McKinley and leave the rest of us alone.
No. It was named after him BEFORE he was elected president in a ploy to help get his name recognized and then elected.
Call it Denali, like Alaskan do.
Removing its American name and giving it an Indian name is going in the wrong direction.
Bingo!
OTOH, here in Arizona, Napolitano wanted to impress the unwashed masses and score a pile of PC points by changing the name of Squaw Peak outside of Phoenix to Piestewa Peak after an NA woman killed in Iraq. This is probably what is driving Murkowski. Recently, I've noticed that a lot of Arizonans are going back to calling it Squaw Peak again. To us older Arizonans, it will always be Squaw Peak. It's part of our history.
My wife was doing a puzzle a few days ago. She asked me the previous name of Mumbai. I didn't know.
I can't keep up with all the renames, don't try.
Once in a great while you hear it called McKinley, either way people know what you're talking about.
I believe it's known more as McKinley in the lower 48 and by those not familiar with climbing.
If anything, it makes it to differentiate between the park and the mountain.
To me, it's a waste of time and money to try to "officially" change the name. Nothing but PC pandering.
Name it after Sarah Palin
If it had been named after a Democrat, no one would be agitating to rename it.
I’m pretty sure Democrats call the mountain Denali—just as they refer to Hoover Dam as Boulder Dam.
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