WASHINGTON — The federal government’s official name for North America’s tallest peak is Mount McKinley.

President Trump reinstated the moniker on Day 1 of his second term with an executive order entitled “ Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness .”

But Sen. Lisa Murkowski is trying to re-restore a much older name.

“We have called it, this mountain, Denali in Alaska for decades, generations,” she said at a Senate hearing Tuesday. “The Koyukon Athabascan have called it, referred to it, as Denali for millennia.”

Murkowski has sponsored a bill that would nullify Trump’s name change, and change the official name back to Denali, which is often translated as “The Great One.” Alaskans feel strongly about it, she said.

“This is about respecting the original stewards of the land w

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