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Sunshine (she/her) to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

North Dakota state park will no longer be named for Civil War general who fought Native Americans

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North Dakota state park will no longer be named for Civil War general who fought Native Americans

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Sunshine (she/her) to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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North Dakota state park will no longer be named for Civil War general who fought Native Americans - The Turtle Island News
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota state park will no longer be named after a Civil War-era general who led attacks that killed hundreds of Native Americans. Sully Creek State Park, in the rugged Badlands near Medora, is now Rough Rider State Park, the state Parks and Recreation Department announced Sunday. The name change was also made with the announcement of plans for a $4 million expansion of the park’s campground and other amenities. The park, established in 1970, is popular with hikers and horseback riders. The change follows a national move to rename places with names many people now find offensive or unjust. As part of that effort, the federal government in recent years has renamed hundreds of geographic features that had names that contained an offensive term
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  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    How about we just stop naming public things after people altogether? Seems like every few years we just have to rename stuff because of some scandal.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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      Or just give it a generic name like “Joe Park”, who’s Joe? Who knows.

      • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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        Joe Mama

        • WR5@lemmy.world
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          Fucking got 'em.

    • rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      They actually did that with birds!

      https://americanornithology.org/american-ornithological-society-will-change-the-english-names-of-bird-species-named-after-people/

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      Agreed. And we need to remove people from paper money & coins. I also hate name duplications like, Salem OR, Salem MA. And places like Kansas City KS/MO are annoying as well. We need some changes.

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        If you’re coming from b16f47f5-db1c-4c80-8f45-b16a3c36e055burg, just take ec784753-e71d-4b3f-bdca-4ff6eb7fa8ee road to 6a8a93a9-fb07-4587-8670-fc4bb44c4d12 park.

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    Notice how the headline tiptoes around the fact that the general in question was one of the Good Guys.

    Fun Fact: a lot of the boarding schools that were made to eradicate native cultures were also named after the officers that conquered their tribes, like the Sherman Institute.

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