Alaska Denali National Park - Landscape
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Alaska Denali National Park - Landscape
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AM FineArtPrints
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Painting - Digital Painting
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Alaska Denali National Park Landscape - An autumnal view
Denali National Park, whose official name is Denali National Park and Preserve, is a US national park located 382 km north of Anchorage.
It is the main national park in Alaska and there is Mount McKinley, which at 6194 meters is the highest peak in North America. The original name of the mountain was Denali, which means "the biggest" in the Athabaska language. He was changed to honor US President William McKinley. The ancient name remained to designate the national park.
Since 2015, Barack Obama has decided to return to McKinley, the highest mountain in the United States and North America, the name "Denali", the one that had been attributed to the native populations of the Koyukon Athabascan ethnic group. The announcement comes to vigorously promote an action policy against climate change, the effects of which are particularly dramatic at extreme latitudes. The announcement was given by the Interior Secretary, Sally Jewell on 31/08/2015.
The initiative seems to put an end to a diatribe that has been going on for at least 40 years, since in 1975 the local government of Juneau asked Washington to restore the original name, the one used by the local populations, but had to face the resistance of the congress and the Ohio senators. The most recent name, in fact, dates back to the early twentieth century and belongs to the 25th US president, William McKinley, native of the easternmost of the Midwest states: a gold prospector, then with experience of life lived in the last "frontier" of the States , of which he became the first citizen, in 1897, immediately after having governed Ohio for 4 years. He ended up assassinated in 1901. Querelle of difficult solution, since he sees on the one hand the inhabitants of Alaska make themselves strong of the idea of the name stolen as extreme symbol of the imperialism also cultural of the European populations white compared to the local communities, and from the the other more numerous citizens of Ohio to defend the memory of a president of the States, controversial as much as he wants, but still dead murdered.
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