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Goodbye, Mount McKinley. Hello, Denali! President Obama restored the traditional name of Alaska’s highest peak last weekend, in a move that has Alaskans cheering and a few Ohioans pouting. The name change honors the region’s native population. The indigenous Athabascan people called the mountain Denali, which means “the high one,” but it gained McKinley’s name…