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The Alaska House has voted to urge President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali

The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain

King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley -- an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.

Trump said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs."

Many Alaskans say they’ll never stop calling the mountain Denali. That name respects the Indigenous people who’ve lived in its shadows for thousands of years. But Ohioans think McKinley “was a great president.

The state Senate is expected to quickly agree with the House's request to keep the name as Denali, which would send it to Washington, D.C.