Posted on 09/10/2022 10:49:21 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
MINNEAPOLIS -- The federal government recently renamed hundreds of lakes, streams, summits and other places to remove an offensive term for Indigenous women.
The new name for the lake formerly known as Squaw Lake, which is located in Pine County, is Manidoons Zaaga'igan Zhaawanor.
It's one of the nearly 650 changes that have been made by the government in order to avoid the use of the slur. Among the states with the most instances include California, which had 80 name changes, and Arizona, which had 66.
Wisconsin had 28 instances of names being changed, the closest of which is the lake now known as Apple Lake in St. Croix County.
"I feel a deep obligation to use my platform to ensure that our public lands and waters are accessible and welcoming. That starts with removing racist and derogatory names that have graced federal locations for far too long," Secretary Deb Haaland said. "I am grateful to the members of the Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force and the Board on Geographic Names for their efforts to prioritize this important work. Together, we are showing why representation matters and charting a path for an inclusive America."
The name changes come from the Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force, which included representatives from the Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, National Park Service, Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service.
I expect them to go after the Whitefish Chain of Lakes, next.
It is difficult to watch the collapse of reason and the destruction of civilization and to be able to nothing about it.
Yeah. Next after that the white river.
Then the red river???
Cardinals can no longer be called “red birds”
More utterly and totally unconstitutional; federal acts.
Who or what is going to stop this rogue, out-of-control totalitarian government?
LOL!
I guess if they had to change it, just calling it something like ‘Lady Lake’ would be too simple...
No one is going to call it by that ridiculous & unpronounceable name. I thought for a moment this HAD to be the Babylon Bee.
Squaw is generic “woman.” It is offensive to the people who desire everything in the past to disappear that is not positively supportive of their agenda. Indians are non people to the PtB. For Moslems and Communists History begins with their advent. Nothing was before them.
I would bet no one bothered to ask the Indian’s their opinion.
So does renaming a bunch of lakes get any of these people out of poverty, OR get them a better education K-12 these people are insane!!
Of course not.
How about Minni Lake?
I thought this was the Babylon Bee!
Doesn’t the government have better things to do?
Like getting us into another war?
F’em.
5.56mm
Are they renaming things generally or only on Federal land? If I name my home Squaw Manor will they send their agents to my door to force me to change that?
Who or what is Manidoons Zaaga’igan Zhaawanor ?
The answer is to just ignore the name changes and continue using the original names.
Particularly when the new “Name” is unpronounceable gibberish.
Tribal Tongue Twister.
I will still call it Squaw Lake. No unpronounceable word salad for me. I bet you most of the Indigenous people, aka Indians, can’t pronounce the word salad either. The Obama/Biden Fools strike again.
Constitutional is no longer relevant to anything. This IS the New World Order. It has prevailed at the top and even if they lose Congress and then the Presidency there will be no lasting change without the complete dismantling of the Bureaucracy, the Managerial State. The Bureaucracy is, in fact, the government and the other branches are fading rapidly into irrelevance.
What’s really funny, is every time one of these changes takes place, the local media reporters are forced to pronounce this gibberish without looking and sounding like they’re having a stroke.
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