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Seneca Nation Resists Lake Ontario Rename | Dayton News
The Seneca Nation is fiercely resisting President Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” arguing it violates a 1794 treaty that explicitly references the lake as a boundary. The move, part of a pattern including last year’s “Gulf of America” renaming, is seen as politically motivated amid U.S.-Canada trade tensions. The lake’s Indigenous names—“oniatarí:io” (Huron) and “sga:nyodai:yoh” (Seneca)—reflect deep cultural ties being dismissed by the administration. Both New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have rejected the renaming…
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