The House resolution, sponsored by Rep. Maxine Dibert, D-Fairbanks, says the name Denali is “deeply ingrained in the state’s ...

Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one of his many executive orders a mission to celebrate ...

The tech company said Monday it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official ...

More than 200 community members and public health professionals from American Indian and Alaska Native communities ...

In 2015, former President Barack Obama formally renamed Mount McKinley — named after 25th president William McKinley — to Mount Denali, a name used by Alaska Native people. The mountain is the ...

Non-Native settlers and visitors arriving in Alaska came up with their own names ... But the name Mount McKinley stuck and began to appear on maps and in other publications. In 1917, the area ...

"I started to learn (and am still learning) more about the rich naming traditions “Denali” and other Alaska Native names for ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

Is Google Maps changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America? - Only Google Maps users in the US will see ...

The Native claims act gave Congress ... claim holders and hunting guides studied the maps with dismay. Politicians ridiculed the idea that Alaska’s wilderness was the kind of antiquity meant ...