When the Dena’ina tribe arrived in Alaska between 500 and 1000 a d. Some continued southward to become Navaho. Navaho call themselves the Dine’ pronounced de nai, phonetical about the same as that of their northern kin. Neither group anticipated their tribal name would become a political football interchangeably with that of dead the President McKinley during the Obama administration.
The Trump administration could sell naming rights of the tallest Hill in North America on eBay or just change it back to McKinley. Since the next Democrat President will probably revert it to Denali or ‘the Navaho people’ selling the space for five years might be practical.
Athabascan Indians arrived in Alaska about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago yet others passed long before that are lost to history. No one knows today who the actual first people were as their coastal tracks were submerged long ago with sea level rise during the end of the Wisconsin Ice Age. Still, the Tanana Chiefs are an ancient lineage and so McKinley-Denali should be renamed for the with Tanana or Tenados attached to the northern summit.
There used to be 27 names for the mountain that could easily be found in a Google search. After politically correct purging just two names turn up. One is the name of a race and the other is that of an assassinated President. Mikhail Tal was history’s most exciting chess player. If it can’t be Tenados or Tanana let it at least be Tal.
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