Re: choosing a community name
From: CJ Q (homeschoolvideogmail.com)
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 07:40:15 -0700 (PDT)
That is wonderful that they changed the name to the original language.  Farther 
north in Minnesota, Bemidji  puts signs in English and Ojibwe and many towns 
are Anishinabe words. This is a movement so no one erases the history, people, 
and cultures as the US policy has tried to do since the get go.  If you’ve ever 
been to the White Earth casino in Mahnomen then you know the word for wild rice 
since that is the town”s name.
Megwech,
Makade Miziibishi ikwe (my given name up there)

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> On Aug 8, 2021, at 10:08 AM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 8, 2021, at 8:26 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Minneapolis has recently had a significant name change of a major
>> lake. "Lake Calhoun" was named after a slaveowner and pro-slavery US
>> Sec of State. It was renamed in 2015-2018 (by various authorities) to
>> "Bde Maka Ska" which is Lakota/Dakota meaning Lake White Earth.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bde_Maka_Ska#Naming
> 
> Name changes also demarc generations. The airport in Washington DC will 
> always be National for those who alive when it was changed to Reagan National.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines, Washington DC
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> and they will spend a life-time mired in paralyzing self doubt."
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