Posted on 02/06/2015 7:20:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
Lawmakers have failed in past attempts to rename North America’s highest mountain, but a new proposal may have a better chance this year under a Republican Congress, according to an aide to an Alaska lawmaker who is resurrecting the effort.
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have introduced a bill to give Mount McKinley its historical Alaska Native name.
The Alaska Republicans announced a Senate bill Wednesday to formally call the 20,320-foot mountain by its Athabascan name, Denali, KTUU reported. The bill comes after previous efforts by Murkowski failed. …
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Because Alaska has no poor people or infrastructure that needs repairs so they can waste time and tax dollars on this hooey.
When will they go about renaming things named after Democrats?
This is stupid, IMO. Or am am I missing something?
For decades there have been ongoing attempts to officially rename the mountain to Denali, which means “the great one” in the Alaska native Athabascan dialect. In 1975, the Alaska Board of Geographic Names officially changed the name of mountain to Denali, but attempts to do the same at the federal level have been generally blocked by the Ohio legislative delegation.
It will always be McKinley to me.
My brother climbed to the top of Mt. McKinley in 1977.
In that case, the state is more liberal than I took it for.
+1
Cool!
It would drive the right people crazy to rename it after her!
I was born and raised in Ohio; my family lives in “The Carnation City”. When I moved to Alaska and learned how and why it was named McKinley, I was ashamed for Ohio.
Years ago I went into WWII service from Phoenix. I had one semester of engineering studies in college which included a surveying course. We did our outdoor surveying classes on acreage that was owned by the college prof. The acreage was bounded by Squaw Peak. I remember a very beautiful and magnificent land feature. I do not see good reason to rename the area after all these years.
This is not a new issue. Alaska has tried for decades to get the name changed. The Alaska Legislature voted in 1975 to change the name of the mountain.
Kudos to Ohio for having the mountain named for one of its greatest sons.
Yeah, real proud of a naming the highest peak in North America to promote a political candidate, not in honor of a president.
But the name stuck, and McKinley turned out to be one of our better presidents, especially compared to most of his successors. As Leo Durocher put it, "win any way you can."
Good point; McKinley was the last great Ohioan, but what about Robert Taft, Sr.?
The ends justify the means.
There is a religion that pushes that crap. It isn’t Christianity.
Ever read The Yiddish Policemen’s Union? Not so meshugena.
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