It’s Denali.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
154 points (97.0% liked)
News
25189 readers
3988 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Oh, you mean ~~Mt.~~ Denali, in Alaska? Yep
Fixed it. Thank you!
Just "Denali".
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.
Oh wow, sounds like he deserved what he got
That'll show those pesky liberal natives
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.
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.
The title talks like it already happened, but the article text describes it as "Donald Trump’s pledge to rename Denali." I'm confused: is this something he can just unilaterally do but hasn't yet, something he already has done, or something that he's proposing that needs some kind of Congressional approval?
Basically- he has done it, but we're not sure if he's allowed to.
Trump issued an executive order directing the relevant party (the Board on Geographic Names, part of the Department of the Interior) to change the name back to Mt McKinley. Controlling the names of geographic landmarks is a power that Congress delegated to the BoGN, so that they didn't have to hold a vote on every single item. The Unitary Executive theory posits that, since the president is the head of the executive branch, any power delegated to any part of the executive branch is ultimately under the control of the president.
If Congress cared more about their own institutional power instead of partisan power, they would rebuke the attempt and clarify that, no, they set up a process and deviations from that process will not be tolerated.
My take on the likely outcome - people will sue (not sure if lawsuits have been filed yet or not), it'll work its way up through the courts, the judicial branch will rule that disagreements between political branches is outside the purview of the courts (basically saying that if Congress doesn't like what's happening, they have the power to change the laws, so it's up to them), and, since Congress is controlled by R's, the name change will stand.