Summary
Donald Trump’s pledge to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley has sparked widespread backlash, including from Indigenous Alaskans and Alaskan Republican lawmakers.
The Koyukon Athabascans, who have called the mountain Denali for centuries, consider the name sacred.
The Obama administration officially restored the Denali name in 2015 to honor Alaska Native heritage.
Polls show most Alaskans oppose the renaming, despite the state’s Republican majority.
Alaskan senators Murkowski and Sullivan criticized Trump’s move, while some, including McKinley descendants, support honoring the controversial 25th president despite his views on Native populations.
I get the joke, but this is really, really bad. He’s renamed the mountain after a guy who was a contributor to the genocide of indigenous Americans. And not in a small way. Amongst other things, he (and congress) just wiped out their sovereignty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Act_of_1898
Ummmm. They literally voted for this.
In 2016, he said he wanted to change it, and again, on the campaign trail, he said he was going to if he’s elected.
55% of them said “Fuck yeah”. They can go pound sand now. Herr GröpenFührer has spoken. They’ll forget about it when he sells Alaska back to Russia anyway.
55% of who, indigenous Alaskans? I am not seeing evidence of that anywhere. I am seeing articles about how difficult it is for them to even access polling places in the first place.