Captain Keelan McNulty/1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment (click here)
August 30, 2015
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration (click here) will change the name of North America’s tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday, a major symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Alaska.
By renaming the peak Denali, an Athabascan word meaning “the high one,” Obama waded into a sensitive and decades-old conflict between residents of Alaska and Ohio. Alaskans have informally called the mountain Denali for years, but the federal government recognizes its name invoking the 25th president, William McKinley, who was born in Ohio and assassinated early in his second term.
“With our own sense of reverence for this place, we are officially renaming the mountain Denali in recognition of the traditions of Alaska Natives and the strong support of the people of Alaska,” said Interior Secretary Sally Jewell....
It seems as though President Obama is determined to end long lasting disputes and this is his latest.
Perhaps angry Ohio Republicans can name a new law in his name demanding the end to hydraulic fracking in Ohio and the rest of the country. It would actually honor him.
