Alaskans say Trump can change the name Denalia, but I can’t make him call people Mount McKinley

The highest peak of North America is the focal point of Jeff King’s life.

The four -time winner of the 1,609 kilometers of Iditarod Trail Salv is managed by his kennel and music of the tourist business just 12 kilometers from the Denali National Park and the entrance to the reserve, and the mountain 6,190 meters is on its dogs on nearby trails.

King and many others who live in the shadow of mountains say that most Alaska will never stop calling the top of Denali, his native name in Alaska, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order The name returns to Mount McKinley – The identifier was inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohija and never went to Alaska.

For many living near Denali, Trump’s proposal was peculiar.

“I don’t know a single person who loves an idea, and we’re pretty loud about that,” King said. “Denali has been respectful of indigenous people who have been around and around Denali for tens of thousands of years.”

The mountain was named after McKinley when the prospectus came out of the wilderness of Alaska in 1896, and the first news he heard was that the Republican was nominated for the president.

The name was quickly caused, but the cards were already circling the name of the mountain.

At that time, there was no recognition of the name Denali, or “High”, on the mountain on the interior of Alaskan tribal members of Athabascan, who have lived in the region for centuries.

The name McKinley was stuck until 2015, when the administration of President Barak Obama changed it to Denal as a symbolic gesture of natives of Alaska on the eve of its visit to Alaska to highlight climate change.

Trump said he had issued an order to “return the name of the great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where he belongs. McKinley President made our country very rich in tariffs and through talent.”

The area lies exclusively in the United States, and Trump, as president, has powers to change federal geographical names in the country.

In Ohi, Trump’s move attracted praise.

“I was really excited when I saw that President Trump was doing this executive order,” said former US Ambassador Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, Associated Press on Thursday. McKinley “was a great president,” Gibbs said. “It was appropriate.”

It’s not so Alaskanci.

‘Jarging Note’

Trump introduced “note” in Alaska affair, Steve Haycox, a history professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, wrote in Daily News Anchorage.

“Historical analysis confirms that William McKinley is the wrong public figure that the Alaskans can mark,” he said.

McKinley has been president since 1897 until he was killed in 1901. He was an imperial colonialist who was monitoring the spread of the American Empire with the occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippine and Hawaii, who encouraged business interests and Christian missionaries who want to turn nation’s indigenous peoples, Haycox said.

“Trump’s pressure to abolish the name Denali for the colonialist and white elitist McKinley is offending all Alaska, especially for the births of Alaska, and should be sound rejected,” Haycox said.

John Wayne Howe, who ran unsuccessfully for the American House last year, represented by the Alaskan independence party, which believes that the Aljanskans should be allowed to vote on becoming an independent nation, said he was tired of “people who change things names, period.”

It also does not advocate to appoint anything by people because “people we consider to be an absolutely perfect change over time, and this only leads to confusion.”

Howe said to be preferred by Denali because he knows McKinley’s history and is the name of Alaskans who prefers the most.

Last week, two resolutions were presented to the legislative body of Alaska to keep the name Denali.

Republican Government Mike Dunleavy, Trump’s ally that the president praised another command to encourage the development of resource in the country, said he had no opportunity to talk to Trump about the matter, but hoped he would talk next month in Washington what Denali means for Alaska, Americans and “Our General People.”

But Sarah Palin, a former Republican governor who also said Trump’s supporter, said McKinley’s name had never been removed.

Palin’s name of the secret service was Denali in 2008, when she was presidential candidate for GOP president John McCain in the year they lost to Obama and Joe Biden.

But in an interview with Al Arabiya News last week, Palin said she didn’t see why the name of the mountain should be changed to begin with.

“It was always Mount McKinley,” said Palin, who did not respond to the message of the Associated Press. “No one begged for a name change on that top. Just bring it back the way it was, more common sense.”

American Senators of Alaska, Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, supported the name Denali. US Ambassador Nick Begich, a Republican from the first term, bypassed the discussion.

“I’m focused on job creation, Alaska’s opportunities,” Begich Politico said. “And what we call a mountain on Alaska I care a little.”

The Alaska Native Heritage, the State Indigenous Cultural Center in Anchorage, supports the preservation of the names of indigenous places.

“Renewal and honor are acknowledged by deep, millennium relationships, the native peoples are held with these countries and is a step towards respect and reconciliation,” the Center President, Emily Edenshaw, said in a statement.

The strange Alaska community of Talkeette, about 225 kilometers south of the park and where the cat used to be mayor, is the point of descent for climbers before establishing its peak. A historic community that has long been said that the inspiration for the Northern Exposure television series from the 1990s is also a popular tourist stop.

Joe Mcaneney from Talkeetna worked as a summer raft for two years before moving to Alaska in 2012 in 2012. Now is a pilot for a air taxi company, releasing climbers and tourists on a mountain on a small plane equipped with a base of the base camp, located on a Kahiltna glacier at a 2,194 -meter -high height.

He knows that once a tourist season comes, they will have to answer their questions about what he thinks about Trump to change his name. He knows what his answer will be like.

“There was always Denali, and it will always be,” he said.

The executive order can handle a name change, but alignment is another question.

“The only people who will adhere to these are probably the people who would still call him McKinley,” McAneney said.

There is a long -standing trait of Alaska neglect of what the rest of the world thinks, and it is usually expressed: “We don’t care how they do it outside.” From the outside, which is always capitalized, it refers to every place that is not Alaska.

“I think unofficially and officially on Alaska will be Denali,” McAneney said. “I don’t think the president can change that.”

For King, decorated Iditarod Musher and the favorite of fans, Trump’s decision had a snack of arrogance.

“I’m surprised he doesn’t want to name him Trump Mountain,” he said.