A body of water that has carried the name Ontario for centuries now appears as 'Lake America' on American maps, redrawn by executive order amid deepening trade tensions between the United States and Canada. The renaming of the smallest Great Lake is less a geographic act than a political one — a assertion of sovereignty over shared geography that neither neighbors nor some members of the president's own party are willing to accept. History reminds us that names given to places by those in power are rarely the last word; the land, and those who live beside it, tend to remember.