President Trump’s renaming Mt. Denali back to its former name of Mt. McKinley has touched off the usual outrage from politicians, propaganda media types, and activists whose only knowledge of the country’s Pre-Columbian tribal population comes from Kevin Costner movies and shows.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Mt. Denali, they insist, was the original ‘indigenous’ name for Mt. McKinley. But the National Park Service has noted:
[N]o fewer than nine Native groups… used unique names for the mountain. There are five Athabascan languages surrounding the park, each with its own oral place name.
And Mt. Denali is not even the right tribal name.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who co-sponsored the bill to change Mt. McKinley’s name to Mt. Denali, attacked Trump’s decision because, in her words:
[Mt. McKinley] must continue to be known by the rightful name…
