31 instances including if a river is confined to one state, and/or if the stream is considered a navigable stream, then a War Department can consider changing the name.9 This plan of changing the name of the river did not go through, thankfully. Residents realized that it was a dumb idea to change the name of the river. It seemed as if Lino strip away the history of the Native Americans and place emphasis and importance on colonizers of the land. Funny thing is, Lino is not the only person who believed that Native Americans and their tribes did not have importance on famous landmarks all across the world. There are so many modern examples of name changes. One example of a name change is Mount Denali. This mountain is the tallest peak in North America, which is located in south-central Alaska.10 Denali is an Athabascan word, which means “the high one.”11 The Athabascans were the locals around this mountain, they usually lived around Interior Alaska. They were the residents around the mountain for centuries and centuries.12 Figure 4 Denali, "the High One." Source: National Park Service 9 “Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections,” True Republican 14 January 1922 - Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections, https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=STR19220114.2.55&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN- %22fox%2Briver%22%2Bname%2Bchange%2Bmooseheart---------. 10 Catton, Theodore R. The Public Historian 15, no. 2 (1993): 137–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377974. 11 “Home,” Geriatrics, https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/alaskan/introduction/native_cultures/athabascan.html. 12 “Denali or Mount McKinley?,” National Parks Service (U.S. Department of the Interior), https://www.nps.gov/dena/learn/historyculture/denali-origins.htm.
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