Mount Rainier may go way of 'Mount McKinley' | Colleen O'Brien

Mount Rainier may go way of 'Mount McKinley' | Colleen O'Brien

For years, local tribes have been working to rename Mount Rainier to its original name and KIRO Newsradio historian Feliks Banel thinks it’s going to happen “in our lifetime.” “I think Mount Rainier, the name will change. I think they’ll change it to ‘Taquoma,’ eventually, probably in our lifetimes. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing,” Banel said on “Seattle’s Morning News” Wednesday. The exact pronunciation of “Taquoma” is also up for debate.…