The Alaska Legislature wants President Trump to rethink his order renaming North America’s tallest peak. 

The state’s Senate joined the House on Friday to pass a resolution that urges Mr. Trump to reconsider his executive order that returned Denali to its previous name, Mount McKinley. 

The resolution, which will now be sent to the White House, Alaska’s congressional delegation and the Interior Department, argued that the peak’s original name, Denali, was “deeply ingrained in the state’s culture and identity.” 

The indigenous Athabaskan people and their ancestors have lived in the state for over 10,000 years, the resolution read, and Denali was coined from the traditional Koyukon Athabascan name, meaning “the high one.” 

The mountain was first named by a gold prospector in 1896 after exiting the Alaskan wilderness and discovering that William McKinley had been nominated for president. McKinley was a native of Ohio and had never set foot in Alaska. 

In 1975, state lawmakers petitioned the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the mountain’s name to Denali but were blocked by the Ohio congressional delegation until 2015, when President Barack Obama changed the name to Denali. 

Mr. Trump promised during the 2016 campaign to change it back. Now he did it with his power to change the name of geographical locations within the country. Whether he’ll yield to the wishes of the Alaska Legislature is unclear.

The president wants to honor his predecessor who served in the highest office from 1897 until his assassination in 1901 “to restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.”

• Alex Miller can be reached at amiller@washingtontimes.com.