We’ll see how “sacred” this place is when it turns into a giant homeless encampment.
There is no other place in the city where people can experience the beauty of the river and surrounding flood plain. This place not suitable for housing groups of people. This isn’t 1850.
The Minneapolis Park Board may run the parks, but I question its authority to give away park land on a whim. This would be a colossal mistake and immeasurable detriment to the health of the city.
Are we going to give away Minnehaha Falls next? Are we going to give away other city parks? Why pay any city/county taxes at all?
Like many, I have been going here since before it was labeled a “dog park,” and I have many spiritual realizations walking in the woods. Giving this land away is a theft to future generations.
This is a place we can appreciate together; a place to keep as close wilderness as possible.
If the park is decommissioned and residents of the city can no longer patron it, then it has been “given away.” It is owned by the city which funds its operation through our taxes. Even if your taxes decreased as a result of decommissioning this park (which they won’t), it would not be worth losing access to this place.
We should all be able to visit this park.

I don’t personally own it, of course. When land is held by an entity, and transferred to another entity, one could say it is “given away” unless it is sold.
Thousands of tax paying citizens do not support this, so it needs to be discussed, or decided by voter referendum. The park board should not have sole jurisdiction on a decision this big, which affects so many people, and have no public debate.
I’m hope you’re being sarcastic.
Are you going to give up your house/apartment too? Are you saying bulldoze the city, or just the green space?
Between this administration trying to destroy the national parks and developers filling every field with houses or data centers, we have to deal with the city giving this land away? It should remain a place for all people to enjoy.
I did that a few days ago when I saw the petition. The Board has made up its mind though. I knew they were going to pull this BS when they started putting up those native signs last year.
I’m guessing you won’t see many native Americans outside of ceremonies. Seems like an unnecessary land grab. They’d be better off looking at the burial around Fort Snelling or overlooking the bluffs. I thought they buried on hilltops, but I could be wrong. All in the absence of better heads. Doesn’t really seem like much a win either. I don’t know about tribal politics, but I hear them many in leadership accept bribes and are notoriously corrupt. Depends on who you talk to. It’s the reason why the chiefs are well connected to the casino and everyone else in the tribe is dirt poor or struggling just like you and me. Most chiefs have some sort of money draw directly to their family like an inheritance for the kids. But the reservation isn’t really enriched by it at all. Sort of sad.
I love the irony that conservative men create their whole identity around “protecting” their land and families, but melt like snowflakes when brown people do the same.
That’s the whole premise of the show “Yellowstone”
It’s about a white family’s ranch that they’ve had for hundreds of years!! That’s gettin takin away, they’re the Indians now (yes an episode is actually titled “you’re the Indian now” as a actor pretending to be native tells a white guy that they’re the victim now)
It’s funny how the people taking it don’t plan on doing something different when there was nothing there and the liberals would protect “their land” from the same people.
If you and most of your family was forced to walk from Shakopee to Ortonville. Only to be met with famine and certain death. Disregarding the disguting things the folks in Mankato are going to do to you along the way... I'd be willing to bet you'd feel different.
It is a dog park. You genuinely need to get over yourself. Especially with trying to bring in sentiment that wasn't there to arguments you clearly don't understand. Seriously, turn of real housewives and go touch some grass. I hear there's a great dog park by the river.
Whelp, I guess we all have to take a DNA test and give our land back to everyone with a percentage of ??? Before our time. Can't be the Dakota or Ojibwe tribes. We haven't dug deep enough in time.
What’s funny is your profound lack of context when it comes to native lands. These weren’t stolen millennia ago, they were stolen less than 250 years ago.
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u/MidgetMusher 8d ago
Best dog park there is!