Where does he get off renaming a geographical location ? Is he trying to lure Alaskan natives to vote democrat ? Are there that many of them to make it worthwhile ? Do they even speak enough english to understand what he was saying ?

Mount McKinley to Be Renamed Denali     Obama is giving the mountain its Alaskan native name on the eve of visit  -- By Elizabeth Williamson And Ryan Tracy         

The Wall Street Journal   Updated Aug. 30, 2015    

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 On the eve of President Obama's historic presidential visit to Alaska, Mount McKinley's name is officially being changed to Denali. WSJ's Elizabeth Williamson discusses on Lunch Break With Tanya Rivero.

The White House said Sunday that Sally Jewell used her authority as secretary of the Interior Department to switch to the name given to the mountain by Alaskan native tribes.
“Generally believed to be central to the Athabaskan creation story, Denali is a site of significant cultural importance to many Alaska natives,” the White House said in a written statement. The change was announced on the eve of president barack obama’s visit to Alaska.
Denali, an Athabaskan word meaning “the high one,” has been the name used by Native Alaskans for centuries, and Mt. McKinley has long been a politically controversial replacement. A prospector exploring the area named the 20,320-foot-high peak after William McKinley after his nomination for president in 1896. In 1901, after Mr. McKinley was assassinated, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names “hurriedly” endorsed it despite the fact that the president had no connection to the mountain, according to the 1995 cartography book “Drawing the Lines—Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy” by Mark S. Monmonier.
When the Russians owned Alaska, the mountain was known as Bolshaya Gora, which means “big mountain.”

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