Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali ...

Shakespeare once asked, “What’s in a name? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” And in the case of Denali, would a mountain by another name be as magnificent?

The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of ...

Alaskan leaders continue to unite behind keeping with the traditional name of North America’s highest peak. In response to ...

very patriotic Athabascan people gave the mountain thousands of years ago — Denali.” To most Alaskans, Denali will remain Denali. A recent survey by Ivan Moore of Alaska Survey Research found ...

The Tanana Chiefs Conference, a consortium of Athabascan tribes in Interior Alaska, spent years advocating for the peak to be recognized as Denali.

Maxine Dibert, a Democrat who is Koyukon Athabascan. Members of that tribe bestowed the name Denali, or "the high one," on the mountain in interior Alaska. "Denali is more than a mountain," Dibert ...

There was no recognition of the name Denali, or “the high one,” bestowed on the mountain in interior Alaska by Athabascan tribal members, who have lived in the region for centuries.

For centuries before white explorers and settlers found their way to Alaska, the five Athabascan groups that historically lived around Denali used names to describe North America’s tallest ...