Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has brought
legislation to the U.S. Congress seeking to put down the name of Mt. McKinley
and replace it with a traditional Alaska native name 'Denali' probably derived
from the name of the Dena'ina Athabascan Indians of Alaska.
Athabascans were a great tribe of immigrants
to Alaska that were the source of several branches such as Tlingit and Navaho
tribes as well as numerous others.
It might be better to rename the tallest
mountain in North America 'Tenados'-another traditional name. I believe Mt.
McKinley has more than 27 different names.
Tenados is more readily traceable linguistically
to ancient origins-perhaps even the large island named Tenados in the far
Eastern Mediterranean Sea. There was an ancient Mediterranean Sea area people
with a blood group found in Druse people as well as Algonquin and Yakima that
migrated to America long ago probably bringing there language with them via
Siberia.