better Denali than....Obama!
Mount Reagan.
Really, got to be politically correct. what an asinine waste of money and time. Why not rename the United States to some Indian name to appease the goose stepping libtards.
Denali or D’Allah?
decisions, decisions...
This is a touchy feely, phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller WASTE OF TIME!!! I lived in Alaska for four years from 82 to 86. I never heard one person refer to Denali as Mt. McKinley while I lived there. This is already a done deal. Alaska doesn’t need a couple of moronic politicians putting themselves up on the PC pedestal by submitting a BS bill like this. Murkowski the Independent Ice Princess needs to get a life.
Denali? Oh, please.
it’s the native american name for the mountain and it means “The High One”. I have no problem with giving it back that name.
So they want to rename it after an SUV?
;-)
This is stupid. I was in Alaska for a 3 week vacation several years ago, and not once did I hear this mountain referred to as anything other than Denali. Everybody calls it Denali, who really cares what the USGS calls it?
Effectively, it already has two names. Not uncommon when two cultures mix.
What is wrong with keeping it that way?
Yes! Let’s name Alaska’s mountain Mount Obama.
Its tall, cold , with a head of solid rock. Just like the effing a$$hat it would be named after.
Let the people of Alaska decide.
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)!
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.
http://archive.today/0vsjs#selection-863.0-871.121
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.
I think fighting the Islamic Caliphate can wait until this serious issue is resolved.
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.
Removing its American name and giving it an Indian name is going in the wrong direction.
Name it after Sarah Palin
If it had been named after a Democrat, no one would be agitating to rename it.
I have an idea - why not leave it Mt. McKinley and leave the National Park it’s in Denali?
You know - the way it’s been for almost 100 years. /s
How long must we be burdened with these children and their incessant whining about everything?