After president Donald Trump’s Steps to change the name of the highest mountain in North America in Mount McKinley, Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has again introduced a measure to designate the mountain as Denali.
Senator Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, is the original co-sponsor.
“In Alaska it is Denali,” said Murkowski, according to a press release.
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Left: President Donald Trump arrives to speak with teacher Marc Fogel, who was held in Russia, not depicted in the diplomatic reception area of ​​the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday 11 February 2025; Right: Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks during the Senate -Credit Subcommissie on Defense in Washington DC, on 11 May 2023. (Left: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty images; Right: Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“Once you see it personally and take the majesty of its size and inhale the cold air, you can understand why the Koyukon Athbascans called it ‘the big’. This is not a political issue – Alasse’s from every walk of life have long argued That this mountain is recognized by the true name “
Trump issued an executive order on his first day at the office to change the name of the mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinleyin honor of President William McKinley, who was murdered in 1901.
“In 1917, the country officially honored President McKinley through the naming of the highest peak of North America. But after almost a century, the government of President Obama was the name of McKinley from the federal nomenclature, an insult to President’s life McKinley, dissected, his performance, his performance, his performance, his performance, his performance, and his sacrifice, “explains the executive order.
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The Alaska Range with Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake with Tundra Swans (Cygnus Columbianus) in the fall, Denali National Park, Alaska (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Trump’s order ordered the Minister of the Interior to restore ‘the name’ Mount McKinley ‘.
“The secretary will then update the Geographic Namen Information System (GNIS) to display the renamation and restoration of Mount McKinley. The National Park Area around Mount McKinley retains the name Denali National Park and the preservation,” says the Order.
The same order also led the Minister of the Interior to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
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The controversy about the name of the highest peak of the continent has existed over the years and Murkowski has been working on the debate for more than a decade.
Earlier in the past, she pushed measures several times with regard to the name of the Berg, including one in 2015 for which Sullivan was the original co -sponsor.
Interior sec. Sally Jewell gave an order to change the name of Mount McKinley in 2015 in Denali during the president Barack Obama’s Witte Huis Termade.
“President Obama wants to change the name of Mcinley in Denali after more than 100 years. Great insult to Ohio. I will change again!” Trump stated in a tweet from August 2015.
He asked for possibly to change the name while he met Murkowski and Sullivan, but the senators expressed their opposition, Sullivan, whose wife Athabascan is, said in 2017, according to Adn.com.
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If “you are changing that name again, she will really get very angry,” the senator said he told Trump, according to the report. “So he says,” Okay, we don’t do that, “Sullivan recalled.
Murkowski is one of the GOP people who voted to condemn Trump after the house accused him of him in 2021 after the American Capitol Riot – but in particular, the senate voice, which was kept after Trump had already left his office, was able to NOT REMOVE ADVERTISEMENT IMPLEMENT FOR THE REMENTED DRIGHT PROPERTY.
