The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great ...
Mapmakers and teachers are rethinking what to call the body of water between Mexico, the U.S. and Cuba after President Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced that the Oklahoma State Department of Education's history standards have been updated to include the terms Gulf of America and Mount McKinley.
Oklahoma public schools will be among the first to adopt President Trump's new names for the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali, America's highest mountain ...