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LAKE AMERICA WILL FAIL
Donald Trump wants to change the name of “Lake Ontario” to Lake America. But history shows that he’s going to fail.
Before Canada or the United States existed, this region was a massive, thriving geopolitical trade hub. On the south shore, in modern Upstate New York, lived the powerful Haudenosaunee Confederacy, including the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. On the north shore lived the Wyandot, also known as the Huron.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big.” The name is more than 400 years…
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