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.
The naming and renaming doesn’t matter to most, in our hearts we will always call it Sears tower.
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.
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.
They’re not just “dismayed” (more like pissed the fuck off) because the mountain’s name was changed from its original name again.
During McKinley’s Presidency, he continued policies of displacing, discriminatingagainst, and abusing native people. McKinley signed the Curtis Act of 1898, which took away the sovereign status of the Five Civilized Tribes, overturned treaties and abolished the tribes’ governments, invalidated their laws and dissolved their courts. The Curtis Act called for the abolition of tribal governments, and was intended to establish the concept of individual land holdings. This Act extended all provisions of the Dawes Act to the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes, making large parts of these lands open to settlement by whites. It resulted in removing an estimated 90 million acres of land formerly reserved for Native Americans.
https://www.cityofarcata.org/DocumentCenter/View/7994/McKinley-War-and-Indigenous-Policy
So they are pissed off because it got renamed for a genocidal president again.
Exactly. And Trump is all for genocidal presidents. He loves him some Andrew Jackson.
Republicans are dismayed that he did this before making sure indigenous people had all their rights to vote stripped away first, if they weren’t worried about this hurting them personally somehow there is zero chance a Republican would have a problem with this
Trump sure has some very interesting priorities.
It’s Denali.
Oh, you mean
Mt.Denali, in Alaska? YepFixed it. Thank you!
Just “Denali”.
