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Posted on 08/30/2015 6:05:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
For more than a century, the tallest mountain on the continent was named after the 25th U.S. president, William McKinley.
Now, in honor of Alaska's indigenous Athabascan people, who had always called it "Denali," President Barack Obama is changing it back, the White House said in a release Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
The first name for Mt McKinley was given Densmore’s Mountain after the gold prospector, Frank Densmore. Another gold prospector, William Dickey named the peak after William McKinley who was a candidate for President. It was William McKinley who was for the gold standard and Dickey did not like the silver minors who supported William Jennings Bryan. Bryan wanted the silver standard.
How Dickey's naming got instituted into law in 1917 are details I have trouble getting. However the Mt McKinley name was passed by Congress and signed by President Woodrow Wilson. Since Alaska was not yet a state, it had little control over those who knew little about Alaska's culture and made policy. It was like naming a road in Chicago after Oprah Winfrey.
Since we have had the name of the peak for almost 100 years, why not just settle down a live with it? Just be glad it was not named Densmore’s Mountain after a simple gold prospector.
“The Spanish settlers in FLA called it Canaveral. Some politicians in DC tried to rename it, locals resisted.”
Different issue. Locals have called it Denali for years. Politicians in DC resisted.
Looks like he was following the conservationists/environmentalists. They couldn’t wait.
http://www.summitpost.org/north-america-s-100-highest/708464
in both cases, the locals overruled the "official" renaming. Florida took 10 years to revert back to Canaveral. Alaska took nearly 100 years to roll back the name.
BTW I think the mountain should be named after Martin Van Buren. It's his turn.
LOL. There is a Seinfeld episode for everything.
The name of the mountain is McKinley.
PC be damned.
Q: How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?
A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.
I don’t want Trump to use the E.O. very often. He can use it to strike down Obama’s edictions.
This is one I’d schedule for the first 48 hours.
Alaska is part of the United States. The whole part is called Denali. That should suffice.
We don’t have to apologize or feel guilty about naming that Mountain McKinley.
In January of 2017, it’s McKinley again, and it remains that.
FUBO
Edicts... whoops.
He can’t do that without the State of Ohio legislature voting the change
Don’t confuse the perpetually outraged with facts.
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What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged rugged hardy people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people whom you will ever know live here, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community up here and I thank you for that and thank you United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.
And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun.
Why? No one wants it named McKinley. Except the Ohio delegation, 95% of whom don’t care. Let it go.
Even Palin calls it ‘Denali’, that’s good enough for me.
I thought it had been re-named years ago!
It has been McMcKinley for 121 years, officially for 98.
A gold prospector renamed the mountain "McKinley" in 1896, and the name was recognized by the federal government in 1917...
People were just fine with the name, until some Leftist activists charged up the situation. Now we're supposed to back down and let it go.
Sorry, not going to do that. We've got the nation being occupied from the South. Our Constitution is experiencing a frontal assault these days. Obama is holding a fire-sale to essentially put us back 125 years.
Our kids are being sold on homosexuality and Marxism from the age of five (or less depending).
This McKinley move is merely more of the same. It may seem like nothing to you, but our influence on this hemisphere is being erased.
There are no small battles. We need to cram this right down the Leftist's throats until they choke on it. We don't and they move on to the next place.
Insert:
1) Wrangell-St. Elias
• Area: 13,005 square miles (33,683 sq km)
• Location: Alaska
• Year of Formation: 1980
2) Gates of the Arctic
• Area: 11,756 square miles (30,448 sq km)
• Location: Alaska
• Year of Formation: 1980
3) Denali
• Area: 7,408 square miles (19,186 sq km)
• Location: Alaska
• Year of Formation: 1917
Alaska has plenty of marks named region centric.
No to the renaming. We have a right to heredity too.
The endless pandering! If he were running again, he wouldn’t have done this. He would be unlikely to ever carry AK, but would lose OH because of this. As it is he’s home free, so why not pander to yet another minority?
If we're going to surrender on McKinely, we'll never stop surrendering. Every place in the United States will revert to the Native American name.
If we're going to surrender on McKinely, we'll never stop surrendering. Every place in the United States will revert to the Native American name.
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