Enchridge, Alaska (AP) – The highest peak of North America is a focal point in Jeff King’s life.
1,000 miles (1,609-kilometers) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Four times wins its canal and angry tourist business at a distance of just 8 miles (12.87 km). The interior of the Denali National Park and safeAnd 20,310 feet (6,190-meter) mountain is huge when it trains its dogs on nearby trails.
King and many others who live in the shadow of a mountain say that most Alaska would never give up to call the peak, His local name is Alaska.In spite of Executive Order of President Donald Trump That name Return to Mount Mac Canal. – Influenced by a identifier President William Mac CanaliWho was from Ohio and never stepped into Alaska.
For many people living near Denali, Trump’s proposal was strange.
King said, “I don’t know a person who likes this idea, and we are raising a lot about it.” “Danali respects the locals who have been here and around it for tens of thousands of years.”
The mountain was named after McCainley. When a provider came out of the desert of Alaska. In 1896, and he heard the first news that the Republican was nominated for the president.
The name was immediately challenged, but the maps had already circulated with the name of the mountain.
At that time, Athabaskin tribal members, who have been in the region for centuries, had no identity of the name Denali, or “high” on the mountain in the interior of Alaska.
McKinley name stuck until 2015, when President Barack Obama’s administration On the eve of Alaska’s visit to Alaska, Alaska’s locals changed it as a symbolic indicator. Feature climate change..
Trump said he ordered that “the name of a great president, William McCainley, should be restored to Mount McCainley, where he should be and where he belongs to. President McCainley through tariffs and skills. Made our country very rich.
The area is fully in the United States, and Trump, as president, has the power to change federal geographical names within the country.
Trump’s move was praised in Ohio.
“I am excited to see President Trump making this executive order,” former US Representative Bob Gibbs, R-Wahio told The Associated Press on the telephone on Thursday. McCainley was “a great president,” Gibbs said. “It was appropriate to do.”
Alaska’s people do not see it like this.
Emirates Steve Hylk, a history professor at Alaska Enchridge University, filed a “grave note” in Alaska’s case. Annacle Daily News.
“Historical analysis confirms that William McCainy is a wrong public figure to commemorate the people of Alaska,” he said.
McCainley served as president from 1897 to 1901. He was an imperial colonial who monitored the expansion of the US Empire with Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines and occupation. HawaiianHocox said, by business interests and Christian missionaries who want to change the locals.
“Trump’s pressure to cancel the Danali name for colonialist and white elite McCainley is an insult to all Alaska residents, especially Alaska locals, and should be rejected,” said High Cox.
John Wayne Hue, who represented the Alaska Independence Party last year, started a failure for the US House, who believes that Alaska should be allowed to vote for becoming an independent country, said he said. Tired of changing people’s names. “
He is not in favor of naming anything in the name of people because “those whom we consider to be completely completely change over time, and it only causes confusion.”
Howe said he preferred Denali because he knows the history of McKinley and this is the name that Alaska has most liked.
Last week, Alaska’s legislature presented two resolutions to name Danali.
The Republican Government Mike Danleyvi, Trump’s allies, who praised another president’s order, aimed to promote the development of resources in the state, said he did not have the opportunity to discuss the issue with Trump but hopefully. That they will talk about this in Washington next month. What does Denali mean for Alaska, Americans and “our locals”?
But Sarah Palin, former Republican Governor, who is also a supporter of Trump, said that McCainley’s name should never have been removed.
In 2008, the name of the Palin’s Secret Service Code was Danali when he was the running meters of GOP’s presidential candidate John McCain, the year he lost to Obama and Biden.
But in an interview with Al Arabiya News last week, Palin said he did not see why the mountain was needed to change.
“It’s always Mount McCaine,” said Palin, who did not respond to the Associated Press message. “No one was begging to change the name in this peak. Just keep it back as if it was, more common understanding.
Alaska’s US senators, Republicans Lisa Merkowski and Dan Sullivan have supported the name Danali. US Representative Nick Begich, the first -term Republican, overturned the debate.
“My focus is on the creation of jobs in Alaska,” Begich said, “And what we call a mountain in Alaska is very worrying for me.”
Alaska’s local cultural center supports the protection of the names of local locations, local cultural hubs across the state in the anchorage.
“The restoration and honor of the center, Emily Eden Shaw, the president of the center, said,” The rehabilitation and honor of them recognizes the deep, a thousand -year -old relationship with these lands of the locals, and this is a step towards respect and reconciliation. “
About 140 miles south of the park (225.3 km) away Takitna’s Alaska’s quirky community and where A cat was ever mayor.Jumping off -point for climbers, before climbing the top. The historic community that has long been spreading rumors for the 1990s television series “Northern Expo” is also a popular tourist destination.
Takitna’s Joe McNee worked as a summer Raft Guide in 2012 for two years before going to Alaska in 2012. Now he is a pilot of a air taxi company, takes climbers and tourists to a small plane to a mountain in a small plane that is designed to land with ski. The base camp is located on the Kalna Glacier. 7,200 feet (2,194.6 meters) from the sea level.
He knows that once the tourist weather arrives, he will have to answer his questions about what he thinks about changing Trump’s name. He knows what the answer will be.
“It has always been a Danny, and will always be,” he said.
Executive order can incite the name change, but compliance is another problem.
“The only people who will be following it are probably the ones who still call it McCainley,” said Mac Annie.
Alaska is a long -standing feature of ignoring the ideas of the rest of the world, and it is usually expressed: “We don’t care how they do out.” Outside, which is always capitalized, every place refers to Alaska.
“I think unofficially and officially in Alaska, it will always be Denali,” McN Annie said. “I don’t think the president can change it.”
For King, the decorated editor -in -chief of the fans and fans, there was a glimpse of arrogance in Trump’s decision.
“I am surprised that he doesn’t want to name it Trump Mountain,” he said.
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Backy Bohr, Associated Press Author in Jonao, Alaska, cooperated in this report.
