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+ READ ARTICLE. President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he would restore the original Native American name to the tallest peak in North America: Mount McKinley will once again be Denali.
View of the mountain, centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from Mount McKinley to Denali.ttempts by the Alaskan state government to have Mount McKinley's name changed by the federal government were blocked by members of the Congressional delegation from Ohio, the home state of the mountain's presidential namesake.