The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former ...

The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great ...

Trump said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and ...

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving ...

The exact derivation of the name "Kenai" is unclear, although it is likely to have come from words of the indigenous Deana'ina Athabaskan Indians. The most likely candidates are "ken'ey" meaning ...

The local Athabaskan Indians reverently called the perpetually snow-covered mountain Denali, "The High One." But in 1896, when the region was still marked as "unexplored" on official maps ...

Affected tribes lost millions of acres of land as ... whose name means “six butterflies” in the regional Athabaskan language from southwestern Oregon and northwestern California.