Will the White House Disappear Mt. Tahoma

      As Mayor of Tahoma, I'm charged with keeping tabs on names that include "Tahoma". It is commonly known and accepted that 'tahoma' comes from an indigenous tribal language that translates or was translated to mean "snow-covered", or "snowy mountain", or "mountain peak with snow", or maybe "there's snow up there on d' mountain".

          A few years ago,  Mt. Rainier was named for Rear Admiral Peter Rainier Jr. by his friend, Captain George Vancouver. Vancouver was an explorer who mapped the western coastal regions of North America. The mountain is still considered an active volcano, one of the many that are found along the Pacific Rim that encircle the Pacific Ocean north through Alaska, across the Aleutian Islands, south through the Rus peoples Kamchatka Peninsula, on to Japan(Mt. Fuji), then to the Philippine Islands(Mt. Mayon here), and on to the island nations, ending in Indonesia(home to the remnant Krakatoa,et.al.)

     In the Navajo language, 'Tahoma' means "waters edge". A noted artist, Quincy Tahoma(b.1920, d. 1956 age 35).  Quincy served as a "code talker" in the US Army during WW II. He worked at the Santa Fe Indian school where he developed pastoral landscapes. He established a gallery in Santa fe that he shared with famed artist Harrison Begay. After the war, his subject matter included bloody Indian war subjects and action scenes with Plains Indians. Clara Lee Tanner and Dorothy Dunn considered Quincy to  one of the great creative artists of the American Southwest.

        So, ddespite over 100 years of controversy, the name "Rainier" sticks to the glaciated slopes of the volcano. additionally, the mountain is the most glaciated geologic feature in North America with 26 active glaciers on its slopes.(Will have to verify such a claim these days!).

       So, we have a "name changer" in the White House now, DJT. See claim that the Gulf of Mexico is now the "Gulf of America". Would the MAyor be surorised if Tahoma would be named in the middle of the night as "Trump Town"?  or maybe "Trumpie Ville"?  or "Lago di Trump"? All of this will take 4 years at least to shake out. Meanwhile, keep your eyes on Mt. rainier on the map.(s). 

   George Vancouver's expedition of 1791-1795 on the British ship HMS Discovery explored the west Coast of North America including British Columbia, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. Vancouver also was aboard a ship of Captain Cook's 2nd voyage.