Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has stirred controversy by reversing an order that recognised the indigenous name of North America's tallest mountain. President Barack Obama changed ...

then changed to Denali in 2015 during President Barack Obama’s second term. The executive order signed Monday by Trump directs the U.S. Interior Department secretary to officially revive the ...

In 1917, the federal government named it Mount McKinley to honor President McKinley but the name was changed to Denali in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama in a nod to Alaska Native tribes.

The state adopted the Denali name in 1975, though it wasn’t until 2015 that then-President Barack Obama restored the mountain’s Indigenous name, recognizing its deep cultural significance.