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McKinley Out, Denali In: Highest Peak in North America Renamed
nbcnews.com ^ | AUgust 30, 2015 | by TIM STELLOH

Posted on 08/30/2015 6:05:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

For more than a century, the tallest mountain on the continent was named after the 25th U.S. president, William McKinley.

Now, in honor of Alaska's indigenous Athabascan people, who had always called it "Denali," President Barack Obama is changing it back, the White House said in a release Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alaska; denali; mtmckinley; obama; obie; transformation
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To: TexasGator
This is like when George Vancouver named Mt. Tahoma (the Indian name was actually təqʷúʔbəʔ for "the mother of waters")after his friend Admiral Peter Rainier, Jr.

The first name for Mt McKinley was given Densmore’s Mountain after the gold prospector, Frank Densmore. Another gold prospector, William Dickey named the peak after William McKinley who was a candidate for President. It was William McKinley who was for the gold standard and Dickey did not like the silver minors who supported William Jennings Bryan. Bryan wanted the silver standard.

How Dickey's naming got instituted into law in 1917 are details I have trouble getting. However the Mt McKinley name was passed by Congress and signed by President Woodrow Wilson. Since Alaska was not yet a state, it had little control over those who knew little about Alaska's culture and made policy. It was like naming a road in Chicago after Oprah Winfrey.

Since we have had the name of the peak for almost 100 years, why not just settle down a live with it? Just be glad it was not named Densmore’s Mountain after a simple gold prospector.

61 posted on 08/30/2015 7:33:10 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

“The Spanish settlers in FLA called it Canaveral. Some politicians in DC tried to rename it, locals resisted.”

Different issue. Locals have called it Denali for years. Politicians in DC resisted.


62 posted on 08/30/2015 7:34:22 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: MeshugeMikey

Looks like he was following the conservationists/environmentalists. They couldn’t wait.

http://www.summitpost.org/north-america-s-100-highest/708464


63 posted on 08/30/2015 7:40:15 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: TexasGator
Very similar. In both cases a geographic feature was renamed after a non-resident politician.

in both cases, the locals overruled the "official" renaming. Florida took 10 years to revert back to Canaveral. Alaska took nearly 100 years to roll back the name.

64 posted on 08/30/2015 7:44:04 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; Nowhere Man; Red Steel


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65 posted on 08/30/2015 7:46:17 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop; The Ghost of FReepers Past; Nowhere Man; Red Steel; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna
I'd have to go with Gore-Tex.

BTW I think the mountain should be named after Martin Van Buren. It's his turn.

66 posted on 08/30/2015 7:57:23 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL. There is a Seinfeld episode for everything.


67 posted on 08/30/2015 8:00:02 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The name of the mountain is McKinley.

PC be damned.

Q: How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?

A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.


68 posted on 08/30/2015 8:05:24 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: MeshugeMikey

I don’t want Trump to use the E.O. very often. He can use it to strike down Obama’s edictions.

This is one I’d schedule for the first 48 hours.

Alaska is part of the United States. The whole part is called Denali. That should suffice.

We don’t have to apologize or feel guilty about naming that Mountain McKinley.

In January of 2017, it’s McKinley again, and it remains that.

FUBO


69 posted on 08/30/2015 8:55:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Edicts... whoops.


70 posted on 08/30/2015 8:56:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

He can’t do that without the State of Ohio legislature voting the change


71 posted on 08/30/2015 9:04:51 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t confuse the perpetually outraged with facts.


72 posted on 08/30/2015 9:08:57 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: nickcarraway
Sunday July 26, at 3pm Alaska time, Governor Sarah Palin stepped down from her position as governor. The full transcript of her rambling, 2300-word farewell address is below.

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What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged rugged hardy people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people whom you will ever know live here, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community up here and I thank you for that and thank you United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.

And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun.

73 posted on 08/30/2015 9:11:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DoughtyOne

Why? No one wants it named McKinley. Except the Ohio delegation, 95% of whom don’t care. Let it go.


74 posted on 08/30/2015 9:19:30 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

Even Palin calls it ‘Denali’, that’s good enough for me.


75 posted on 08/30/2015 9:20:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MeshugeMikey

I thought it had been re-named years ago!


76 posted on 08/30/2015 9:28:10 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: bigdaddy45
I'm not in Ohio. I'm a considerable distance from it.

It has been McMcKinley for 121 years, officially for 98.

A gold prospector renamed the mountain "McKinley" in 1896, and the name was recognized by the federal government in 1917...

People were just fine with the name, until some Leftist activists charged up the situation. Now we're supposed to back down and let it go.

Sorry, not going to do that. We've got the nation being occupied from the South. Our Constitution is experiencing a frontal assault these days. Obama is holding a fire-sale to essentially put us back 125 years.

Our kids are being sold on homosexuality and Marxism from the age of five (or less depending).

This McKinley move is merely more of the same. It may seem like nothing to you, but our influence on this hemisphere is being erased.

There are no small battles. We need to cram this right down the Leftist's throats until they choke on it. We don't and they move on to the next place.

Insert:

1) Wrangell-St. Elias
• Area: 13,005 square miles (33,683 sq km)
• Location: Alaska
• Year of Formation: 1980

2) Gates of the Arctic
• Area: 11,756 square miles (30,448 sq km)
• Location: Alaska
• Year of Formation: 1980

3) Denali
• Area: 7,408 square miles (19,186 sq km)
• Location: Alaska
• Year of Formation: 1917

Alaska has plenty of marks named region centric.

No to the renaming. We have a right to heredity too.

77 posted on 08/30/2015 9:35:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: JimSEA

The endless pandering! If he were running again, he wouldn’t have done this. He would be unlikely to ever carry AK, but would lose OH because of this. As it is he’s home free, so why not pander to yet another minority?


78 posted on 08/30/2015 9:45:00 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: MeshugeMikey
Arriving at the western foot of Mt. Whitney, they met Samuel Langley’s scientific party, which was camped near Guitar Lake. Wallace and his companions ascended Mt. Whitney with members of the Langley expedition and spent a night on top of the peak. In their accounts of the trip they preferred the mountain’s Native American name, “Too-man-i-goo-yah,” which they translated as meaning guardian spirit.

If we're going to surrender on McKinely, we'll never stop surrendering. Every place in the United States will revert to the Native American name.

79 posted on 08/30/2015 9:50:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Arriving at the western foot of Mt. Whitney, they met Samuel Langley’s scientific party, which was camped near Guitar Lake. Wallace and his companions ascended Mt. Whitney with members of the Langley expedition and spent a night on top of the peak. In their accounts of the trip they preferred the mountain’s Native American name, “Too-man-i-goo-yah,” which they translated as meaning guardian spirit.

If we're going to surrender on McKinely, we'll never stop surrendering. Every place in the United States will revert to the Native American name.

LINK

80 posted on 08/30/2015 9:50:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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