How's the bite on Bde Maka Ska…

or the lake formerly known as Calhoun.

http://www.fox9.com/news/lake-calhoun-scrubbed-from-park-signs-restored-to-bde-maka-ska

Think I’ll be sticking with the former name for now.

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…

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

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

big_g wrote:

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.

David Blais wrote:

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?

ClownColor wrote:

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.

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.

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.

How do you pronounce that?

nhamm wrote:

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.

Mike W wrote:

How do you pronounce that?

Yabba daba doo

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

Lund4Life wrote:

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?

fishingallday wrote:

<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.

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

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

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

munchy wrote:

<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?

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.

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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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.

Good one Merican!!

Mike W wrote:

How do you pronounce that?

Calhoun?

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

Why stop there? Is Mille Lacs next?

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

-J.

super_do wrote:

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

Calhoun?

X2 !

-J.

Jon Jordan wrote:

Why stop there? Is Mille Lacs next?

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

-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?

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

BrianF wrote:

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

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