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‘In Alaska, it’s Denali’: senators move to counter Trump’s mountain name order

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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced legislation to officially rename North America’s tallest mountain as Denali .

Murkowski 's bill would require the peak to be called Denali on any US maps, laws and regulations.

The Athabascan word meaning “great one” or “high one’ has been used for thousands of years by Indigenous people in Alaska .