the U.S. Department of the Interior officially restored the name ‘Denali’ in 2015 under Secretary Sally Jewell and President BarackObama’s administration. The decision was widely celebrated ...
The decree undoes the work of former President BarackObama, who, in 2015 officially changed the name from Mount McKinley to Denali, the peak’s traditional name from the Koyukon Athabascan ...
2, 2015, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file) The McKinley name stuck until 2015, when President BarackObama’s administration changed it to Denali as a ...
Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. In 2015, then-President BarackObama changed the name to ...