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Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:06 pm to Salmon
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I'm just a curmudgeon, who doesn't like change
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then you should be for this since it is changing it back to the original name
you should have been against it being called Mt. McKinley
I may be a curmudgeon, but I wasn't around in 1917 when it was named Mt. McKinley. So, the only change that I've experienced in my lifetime has been the most recent change to Denali.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:06 pm to gingerkittie
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Denali is an Athabascan word meaning “the high one” or “great one.
I am thrilled to hear that Denali is finally getting it's real name made official again.
Correct. Alaskans have only used McKinley when talking to tourists. It's Denali.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:07 pm to jose canseco
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Wasn't it originally called Denali? That sounds cooler anyway
Only by 1 of the 7 languages spoken by the indigenous people of Alaska. It had 6 other names, too.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:08 pm to weagle99
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why do you think O is doing this?
nice edit, bro.
maybe b/c the alaskan natives have been asking for it for decades. seems more fitting than being named after some white dude from Ohio, who never set foot in the State.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:13 pm to Mung
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maybe b/c the alaskan natives have been asking for it for decades. seems more fitting than being named after some white dude from Ohio, who never set foot in the State.
No...but he was pivotal in the early negotiations in the Alaska Boundary Dispute with Canada.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:13 pm to madmaxvol
Op, you sound like a true idiot:
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Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, introduced legislation in January to rename the peak, but Ohio lawmakers sought to block the move. In June, an Interior Department official said in testimony before Congress that the administration had “no objection” to Ms. Murkowski’s proposed change.
In a video released on Sunday, Ms. Murkowski cheered Mr. Obama’s decision.
“For generations, Alaskans have known this majestic mountain as ‘the great one,’” she said in the video, appearing in front of the snow-topped mountain, its peak reaching above the clouds. “I’d like to thank the president for working with us to achieve this significant change to show honor, respect and gratitude to the Athabascan people of Alaska.”
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:15 pm to sugar71
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You're inventing foolish nonsense to be outraged about .
It's the American Way!
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:17 pm to Mung
You are being naive if you think Obama did this just because the Alaskans were asking for it to happen. 
Party politics
Personal politics (Boehner)
Racial politics
Ego
Party politics
Personal politics (Boehner)
Racial politics
Ego
This post was edited on 8/31/15 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:22 pm to Salmon
Mt Barack sounds better
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:23 pm to madmaxvol
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No...but he was pivotal in the early negotiations in the Alaska Boundary Dispute with Canada.
McKinely: We want this as a state.
Canada: Ok, sure thing buddy.
Thus goes the tale of the great Alaskan Boundary Dispute.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:35 pm to RedRifle
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have known this majestic mountain as ‘the great one,’”
Mt. Gretzky
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:45 pm to weagle99
well of course, errythang Bamz does is racial. Leroy Denali was a well known black gold miner who explored Alaska in the 1870s.
Imma petition for an Executive Order to rename your team the "Barners", to eliminate all this Tiger/Plainsmen/War Eagle confusion. I'm sure you'll complain that your heritage is under assault.
Imma petition for an Executive Order to rename your team the "Barners", to eliminate all this Tiger/Plainsmen/War Eagle confusion. I'm sure you'll complain that your heritage is under assault.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:48 pm to madmaxvol
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Only by 1 of the 7 languages spoken by the indigenous people of Alaska. It had 6 other names, too.
Yea, but the natives who lived in the region called it Denali. And the mountain was generally referred to as Denali by them as well as non natives until it was changed. The other 6 names were never widely recognized.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:48 pm to Mung
Anyone who wants to call it McKinley sides with Ohio dipshits. I'm with the people of Alaska on this one, they want it Denali, let it be called Denali. One of the many presidents over the past few decades before Obama should of done this... If people in Ohio have a problem with it, like they have every time this comes up again, name some flat field in your own shitty state after McKinley.
Lived up there 3 years, we always called it Denali.
Lived up there 3 years, we always called it Denali.
This post was edited on 8/31/15 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:48 pm to weagle99
The timing was dubious, but it was going to happen at some time anyway.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:51 pm to Dam Guide
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I'm with the people of Alaska on this one,
Any other naming issues that you would like to leave on the hands of foreigners?
Perhaps we should have the Portuguese vote on what we'll call our Grand Canyon?
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:56 pm to LucasP
I think they should call it MT LucasP; because you are the "Great One"
Posted on 8/31/15 at 1:33 pm to madmaxvol
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but quit being so freakin' PC with everything.
It was called Denali before it was called McKinley...
#justsayin'
Posted on 8/31/15 at 1:37 pm to LucasP
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Any other naming issues that you would like to leave on the hands of foreigners?
I'm sorry, but the people of Alaska includes the white people from the lower 48 that moved up there as well. I'm from Louisiana, when I moved up there, I stopped referring to it as McKinley as well. All kinds of people up there want it changed back.
This post was edited on 8/31/15 at 1:39 pm
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