{"id":85933,"date":"2026-08-29T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85933"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:49:45","slug":"lake-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/lake-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lake-ontario-canada-america-trump-trade-war-3ac58dca0ca83c15605d4dbff146b28a\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">rename Lake Ontario<\/a><\/span>\u00a0as \u201cLake America,\u201d saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and shows a \u201cblatant disrespect\u201d for the Indigenous people who gave it its name in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca on Friday called for Trump\u2019s order to be rescinded and for the Lake Ontario name to remain as a reflection of the Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada who lived in territory around and along the lake long before the creation of either nation.\u00a0\u201cThe President cannot assert ownership over our culture or erase it through irresponsible political action,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to\u00a0rename Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85934,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85933\/revisions\/85934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}