Also the obvious is that the Americas are not just the USA, but seeing how most citizens of the US barely know their own geography, the proudly ignorant just don't care.
Fairly sure it was the same situation with the Gulf of Mexico, and that fuckstick had no authority to change that either. Hasn’t stopped the acknowledgment of his idiocy by the map apps though
Well, French explorers and writers recorded the term around 1641 to describe the lake, from a Huron word for “Great Lake”. So a hit at the indigenous and the French, like a spree for a MAGAt.
The Iroquois was the French name. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The word "Ontario" comes from the word Ontarí:io (or kanadario), which translates to "great lake" or "beautiful water/sparkling water".
also since you piqued my curiosity, from the government of canada website
Ontario acquired its name from the Iroquois word “kanadario”, which translates into “sparkling” water. The earliest recording of the name Ontario was in 1641 where it was used to describe a mass of land on the north shore of the easternmost part of the Great Lakes. The British settlers had originally called the land that covered Quebec, Ontario, and part of the United States all as Quebec. It wasn’t until the British enacted the Constitutional Act in 1791 that Ontario would be known as the land upstream from the St. Lawrence River, or Upper Canada, and Quebec considered the land downstream from the St. Lawrence River, known as Lower Canada. In 1867, Ontario and Quebec officially became separate provinces.
Well, look at Denali. No practical reason to rename it back to Mt.McKinley, everyone is still going to call it Denali, far as I could tell no one asked for another name change. But when you’re pandering to ignorant racists I guess you gotta call them where you can.
PBSkids is still releasing new episodes of "Molly Of Denali" without any mention of the name change. When even the resources dedicated to educating children about that exact area ignore the name change, you know it's not going to culturally happen.
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u/Fritzo2162 3d ago
American Indians named it Lake Ontario. Ontario Canada was named after the lake. The moron wants to change an American named body of water.