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"Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca called Friday for President Trump to
rescind his order to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” citing a
centuries-old treaty between Native Americans and the U.S. government.
Seneca said in a statement that this name change, which Trump authorized in a
Thursday executive order, violated the terms of the 1794
Treaty of
Canandaigua.
“The President cannot assert ownership over our culture or erase it through
irresponsible political action,” he said in a statement.
Former President George Washington and leaders of the Haudenosaunee
Confederacy, which includes the Seneca Nation, signed the treaty to assert a
shared commitment to peace. The document laid out the Seneca Nation’s
boundaries as “beginning on Lake Ontario.”
The lake’s name comes from the Wendat people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which
translates to “lake of shining waters.” In the traditional Seneca language, the
body of water is called “sga:nyodai:yoh,” which means “beautiful lake,”
according to the nation’s president.
Trump made the decision to change the lake’s name this week amid an escalating
trade fight with Canada. Last year, the president also signed an executive
order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
“If you think about it, we have a gulf, now we have a lake, now all we need is
an ocean,” Trump quipped to reporters in the Oval Office during Thursday’s
signing ceremony. “Maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or
the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), whose state borders the lake, said she would
not honor the renaming request."
Via Janet Logan.
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