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Trump’s Lake America Order Sparks Tribal Pushback | Greenville News
President Trump’s bold move to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” has ignited a fierce cultural and legal firestorm, with the Seneca Nation leading the charge against what they call a blatant disregard for history and treaty obligations. Citing a 1794 agreement and the lake’s indigenous names — “oniatarí:io” meaning “lake of shining waters” and “sga:nyodai:yoh” meaning “beautiful lake” — Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca warns that such renaming erases centuries of Native heritage. This isn’t the first time Trump has attempted geographic rebranding — last year he renamed the Gulf of…
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