Canadian, Native voices rise against Trump’s proposal to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ by Amelia Schafer ICT Amid an escalating trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump signed a declaration Thursday to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” Canadian leaders and Indigenous voices spoke out against the idea. The declaration ignores the Indigenous history crucial to the region and Lake Ontario name’s roots in the Haudenosaunee language family. “It’s sufficient to say it’s an Indigenous Iroquoian word,” Scott Stevens Manning, who is Akwesasne Mohawk and associate professor of Native American and Indigenous studies at Syracuse University, told ICT. Sources vary on exactly what sub-language of the larger Haudenosaunee family the word comes from, but agree that the word Ontario is derived from an anglicized version of a word from the Haudenosaunee language family….
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