Canadian, Native voices rise against Trump\u2019s proposal to rename Lake Ontario as \u2018Lake America\u2019 by\u00a0Amelia Schafer ICT Amid an escalating trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump\u00a0signed a declaration Thursday\u00a0to rename Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America.\u201d Canadian leaders and Indigenous voices spoke out against the idea. The declaration ignores the Indigenous history crucial to the region and Lake Ontario name\u2019s roots in the Haudenosaunee language family. \u201cIt\u2019s sufficient to say it\u2019s an Indigenous Iroquoian word,\u201d Scott Stevens Manning, who is Akwesasne Mohawk and associate professor of Native American and Indigenous studies at Syracuse University, told\u00a0ICT.\u00a0 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…. <\/p>\n
Canadian, Native voices rise against Trump\u2019s proposal to rename Lake Ontario as \u2018Lake America\u2019 by\u00a0Amelia Schafer ICT Amid an escalating trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump\u00a0signed a declaration Thursday\u00a0to rename Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America.\u201d Canadian leaders and Indigenous voices spoke out against the idea. The declaration ignores the Indigenous history crucial to the region and Lake Ontario name\u2019s roots in the Haudenosaunee language family. \u201cIt\u2019s sufficient to say it\u2019s an Indigenous Iroquoian word,\u201d Scott Stevens Manning, who is Akwesasne Mohawk and associate professor of Native American and Indigenous studies at Syracuse University, told\u00a0ICT.\u00a0 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.... <\/p>\n