The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great ...
A postinaugural flurry of executive order signings Monday included one to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and revert the name of Alaska’s Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.