poor gullible native American people up there .... little do they know they are being pandered for their votes ; pandered into becoming members of the Party of subversion and anti-Americanism . Offered the fragrant but deadly snake oil ; they take a drink ....
If it was just a tribe who referred to it by another name, that would be one name. But it is what the people in the state, native and non-native, call the peak, and what Congress named the national park - so less about gullible natives, and much more about presidential fiats that need to be overturned.
Most people looking at the new name are going to think it’s named after a South American pop star.
For decades the state of Alaska, not just a few natives, have tried to get the original name of Denali restored.
The peak’s official name has been a long-running irritation for many Alaskans, since William McKinley never saw the mountain or even set foot in Alaska before he was assassinated early in his second term. A prospector informally named the mountain after McKinley in the late 1800s, and the name was adopted by Congress two decades later.
Gov. Jay Hammond and the Alaska Legislature first asked that the name be formally restored to Denali in 1975. The Alaska Geographic Board has recognized the name of the peak as Denali since then, putting it at odds with its official federal designation as Mt. McKinley.