President Trump’s executive order to rename the Alaska peak — North America’s highest — perplexes and worries many who live in its snow-shrouded midst.

Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska boxes: unspoiled wilderness, roaming wildlife, massive glaciers ...

So Massee McKinley is backing a compromise: call it Mount McKinley, but keep Denali National Park and Preserve ... a citizen of the Ahtna Dene and Pyramid Lake Paiute tribes.

Sheldon's only disappointment was that Congress, in creating Mount McKinley National Park, had ignored his repeated pleas to return the mountain to its original name: Denali. In 1939, Park Service ...

So Massee McKinley is backing a compromise: call it Mount McKinley, but keep Denali National Park and Preserve ... a citizen of the Ahtna Dene and Pyramid Lake Paiute tribes.

Denali National Park and Preserve is a sacred place for many Indigenous people. | Credit: Alan Musy - ADM PhotoGraphics / Getty Images Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska ...