sorry Mexico lost half of America to us, but it is ours now.

People would name mount everest, fiji, kilimanjaro, vesuvius, mount st helens way before they'd name Mount McKinley, at least the others are indiginous names. Changing the name of the mountain to it's original name is logical. Unless Spurg was a Mount McKinley enthusiust, or a mountain/geology enthusiust that was truly and personally impacted by a name being changed back to it's original name. He's just waving his arms for the sake of doing it.

Holy hell that is seriously an imperialism outlook. You would have gotten along joyously during the days of Manifest Destiny and such. It's kind of out there in 2015 though. The fact is, Alaska was overwhelmed by European powers first, with Russia ultimately claiming it as theirs and selling it to the US, which, by then, we were already more than okay with the idea of buying stolen land. I mean, how is a small population supposed to cope when a large population rains down on them with weaponry they've never seen before? When you're still hunting with handcrafted weaponry, and then someone jumps off a ship with forged guns, things aren't exactly going to go well. It's unfair to say "you were outmanned and outgunned, but you really should have fought harder if you cared".

"But we owned Alaska then and we do now!" And? It isn't as if our acquisition was justified. We just took Russia at their word when they said it was their land, bought it, shipped people in, and took over.