I was stationed in AK, and zero folks who I met who lived there called it McKinley. Always Denali, and is was before BHO did his thing in 2015. People from Ohio (where McKinley was born) really want to it to be named McKinley, and people conflate this dumb shit with the woke agenda, when all it EVER was, was just dumb political grand-standing by Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula since 1975(!).
I was stationed in AK, and zero folks who I met who lived there called it McKinley. Always Denali, and is was before BHO did his thing in 2015. People from Ohio (where McKinley was born) really want to it to be named McKinley, and people conflate this dumb shit with the woke agenda, when all it EVER was, was just dumb political grand-standing by Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula since 1975(!).
“Denali” is transliterated Russian (into a native language?) for “Big Mountain”. It could be two words combined, such as de-nali, or den-ali.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Denali