The naming/renaming of Mt. McKinley to Denali and Denali to again Mt. McKinley is part of a long history of colonization and attempted erasure of Alaska Native cultures," said Leonard.

Fernando Birman, 48, is the third person to die in the last month while attempting to summit Mount Denali, according to the National Park Service Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and ...

And that's Mt. Denali, formerly known as Mt. McKinley. But why was McKinley's name changed in the first place? Let's take a look at the mountain's name switcheroo, along with the changes of some ...

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And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...