How's the bite on Bde Maka Ska…

  • big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22454
    #1748817

    all the pressing issues that could be addressed for the natives… and this is what they are working on ? I guess it makes some people feel better…

    Bass_attack
    Posts: 292
    #1748845

    Thought the title of the thread was a really bad typo… doah

    David Blais
    Posts: 766
    #1748847

    Can’t imagine the dakota would appreciate such news in digital format on the inter web. Scribe it on a bluff, down by the river, make everyone happy. We love the river here

    pool2fool
    Inactive
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 1709
    #1748848

    all the pressing issues that could be addressed for the natives… and this is what they are working on ? I guess it makes some people feel better…

    I don’t believe “the natives” were a driving force behind the change. If I’m wrong feel free to enlighten us all.

    Can’t imagine the dakota would appreciate such news in digital format on the inter web. Scribe it on a bluff, down by the river, make everyone happy. We love the river here

    Hilarious. You clearly have some strong opinions about the Dakota. You may as well just say what you mean, why hold back?

    pool2fool
    Inactive
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 1709
    #1748856

    I went to watch the dog races last weekend and thankfully google maps still uses Calhoun.

    “I hold that in the present state of civilization where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good — a positive good.” — John C. Calhoun in an 1837 speech to the U.S. Senate

    Yes, thank heavens google maps hasn’t stolen this treasure of a namesake from us.

    fishingallday
    Posts: 81
    #1748857

    This doesn’t have anything to do with the Native Americans. It is named after a US senator during the Civil war who was pro slavery. Calhoun said slavery was a good thing. So I don’t have any problem with the name change.

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    #1748858

    Embrace your history, learn from it, don’t try to erase it.

    Noone will call it by this name in my lifetime, and that includes all the Natives I know which is probably a heck of alot more than anyone here.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    #1748861

    How do you pronounce that?

    pool2fool
    Inactive
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 1709
    #1748867

    Embrace your history, learn from it, don’t try to erase it.

    Noone will call it by this name in my lifetime, and that includes all the Natives I know which is probably a heck of alot more than anyone here.

    I don’t have a problem with that view Nick.

    I do have a problem with blaming the name change on natives and with stereotyping of any race or culture, both of which are on full display after your initial post.

    Lund4Life
    Posts: 51
    #1748943

    I usually don’t bash the DNR but shame on them for being so spineless and allowing this name change.

    fishingallday
    Posts: 81
    #1748948

    I usually don’t bash the DNR but shame on them for being so spineless and allowing this name change.

    What’s the big deal? They didn’t drain the lake so you can’t fish it. Just a little inconvenience because they changed the name?

    blank
    Posts: 1776
    #1748956

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Lund4Life wrote:</div>
    I usually don’t bash the DNR but shame on them for being so spineless and allowing this name change.

    What’s the big deal? They didn’t drain the lake so you can’t fish it. Just a little inconvenience because they changed the name?

    And the DNR wasn’t the first group to approve of the name change. It was first the MPLS Parks and Rec board, then the Hennepin County Board, then the DNR, next is the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to make it completely official.

    Like fishingallday said, they didn’t drain the lake or close it or anything that would limit use. Just a simple name change. Get over it.

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    #1748962

    While we are at it, let’s tear down the Roman colosseum, they did feed people to lions right? Bunch of jerks, they should’ve known better back then.

    Anyone seen Calhoun’s hair? I mean cmon, that in itself deserves a lake name bow
    calhoum

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5623
    #1748966

    My prediction is that 99% of the people will continue to call this lake “Calhoun” anyway. Sort of like the old Xcel employees still calling the company “NSP”. It’s tempest in a tea pot.

    SR

    sticker
    StillwaterMN/Ottertail county
    Posts: 4418
    #1748973

    More tax payer money down the toilet, great!! They really have nothing better to do? coffee

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    #1748974

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Mike W wrote:</div>
    How do you pronounce that?

    Yabba daba doo

    That works for me. So what did Yabba Daba Doo do to get a lake named after it?

    Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10426
    #1748980

    Give it another couple hundred years and some activist group or government agency will find a reason the Bde Maka Ska name is not what the lake should be called, and change it again.

    404 ERROR
    MN
    Posts: 3918
    #1748986

    Are we sure John Calhoun isn’t still alive and using the alias of Willem Dafoe? If so, we should just ask “Willem” what he thinks…I mean, age is just a number and 235 is still relatively low…

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    Walleyestudent Andy Cox
    Garrison MN-Mille Lacs
    Posts: 4484
    #1749015

    I suppose the only thing that might trouble me is if the crusade continues. Will they next set their sights on Lake Harriet? Anyone know if there is any dirt on Harriet? I fear that if one does enough digging, they can find some something objectionable with just about anything with a namesake. crazy

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    #1749016

    Good one Merican!! rotflol

    shefland
    Walker
    Posts: 497
    #1749020

    only the beginning it will never be over for PC, especially here in Mn. Its Lake Calhoun!

    Jon Jordan
    Keymaster
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 6019
    #1749022

    Why stop there? Is Mille Lacs next? whistling

    Funny, went to the Owjibwe language translator and there was no match for the word >>> Bde Maka Ska coffee

    -J.

    DaveB
    Inver Grove Heights MN
    Posts: 4469
    #1749025

    Why stop there? Is Mille Lacs next? whistling

    Funny, went to the Owjibwe language translator and there was no match for the word >>> Bde Maka Ska coffee

    -J.

    That is why amuses me. Why go back to the Dakota name? Why not the Owjibwe? Who picks the magical part of history where wars, racism and bad actors never existed to select the most PC name? Why not name it Cargill Lake or something relevant today?

    BrianF
    Posts: 761
    #1749099

    To answer the question that was asked…it’s been poor the last couple of evenings. For me, at least.

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    #1749117

    To answer the question that was asked…it’s been poor the last couple of evenings. For me, at least.

    Good to know, be working on Calhoun pkwy all next week, Evo might be packed in work trailer for happy hour toast

    BCNeal
    Bloomington, MN
    Posts: 370
    #1749124

    So is the Famous Daves in Uptown now in Bde-Maka-Ska Square?

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