then changed to Denali in 2015 during President Barack Obama’s second term. The executive order signed Monday by Trump directs the U.S. Interior Department secretary to officially revive the ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama completed the change to ...

In 1917, the federal government named it Mount McKinley to honor President McKinley but the name was changed to Denali in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama in a nod to Alaska Native tribes.

Trump also changed the name of the tallest mountain in North America – a peak in Alaska – from Denali to Mount McKinley, reversing a name change enacted by President Barack Obama in 2015.

The mountain was named Mount McKinley until 2015, when President Barack Obama's administration changed it to Denali as a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives. WATCH: President Trump 'not afraid to ...