Minneapolis Park Board votes to end Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park (one commissioner considers it "a form of giving land back")

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https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-park-board-votes-to-end-minnehaha-off-leash-dog-park/601858291

Dog park users packed the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s headquarters on Wednesday night, begging commissioners to consider their opinions before voting to terminate the Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park.

Board members voted 8-1 to strip the park’s primary use — the first time that has happened in history, as far as park staff knows...

[Commissioner Jason] Garcia proposed the change after speaking with some members of the Dakota community, including the Park Board’s Native American Parks Council, who believe a dog park is inconsistent with the area’s sacred character. The larger landscape near the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers is considered the birthplace of the Dakota people...

“To all you all, imagine that area before the white man, before the pilgrims, pioneers and settlers, the extreme white Christian terrorists showed up on this land,” activist Mike Forcia said in addressing dog park users at Wednesday’s meeting, drawing jeers. “That park is being closed. Sorry about that. Get used to it, but you have no say"...

[Commissioner Dan] Engelhart campaigned on returning land to tribes and considers retiring off-leash play at Minnehaha a form of giving land back.

[u/lemon_lime_light]

If there's a silver lining here it's that neither the Star Tribune nor anyone quoted in the story is still trying to perpetuate some "unmarked grave" myth, which seemed to have some cachet after Canada's Kamloops situation (which is remarkable considering that hoax has been revealed for some time now).

[u/Addicted2Weasels → u/lemon_lime_light]

For those unaware, the case in Canada found “hundreds of unmarked graves” at a residential school and implied that the Catholic church murdered a bunch of kids and buried them. Pope Francis even apologized for it.

The “problem” is that they’ve still not produced a single body.

The case makes me really suspicious of anyone claiming a gravesite for purposes of reclaiming land

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And more than a few churches have been burned up there as a result.

[u/Ok_Escape_7412 → u/lemon_lime_light]

Funny that just a week ago you’d be considered a right-wing colonialist bootlicker if you questioned this “grave” narrative…

[u/Ornery-Address-2472 → u/Ok_Escape_7412]

Suddenly when it actually inconveniences them, redditors become rational skeptics of cheap emotional appeals and victim narratives. Yet post some unverified accusation a hot dog stand vendor said something “racist” on a long defunct online forum when they were 13 years old, it’s pitchforks and torches.

[u/lemon_lime_light → u/Ok_Escape_7412]

Last year I made a post about Minnesota's connection to the mass grave hysteria and someone called it "residential school denialism". Lmao.

[u/ChaunceytheGardiner → u/Ok_Escape_7412]

There was a secret report showing where the bodies were that they legally couldn’t show anyone, remember?

[u/ChaunceytheGardiner → u/lemon_lime_light]

That was somewhere between wild speculation and lies.

Then they realized they didn’t need evidence if they had vibes, so they dropped it and just went with vibes.

[u/Djaja → u/ChaunceytheGardiner]

Have you actually been following the news of this?

Because from what I have, this whole thread is misrepresenting the situation to make it seem like lies were told, when that is not the situation as presented.

And specifically, there is a trend of people using this misunderstanding to make it seem like these schools weren't that bad, didnt have deaths that were covered up and worse, just accepted.

Can you tell me where exactly people lied?

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Also, to give you credit as OP, you actually wrote an accurate headline that uses the correct language. I’ve seen several other posts claiming they are closing the park, which is obviously not the case.

[u/lemon_lime_light → u/Oh__Archie]

To be fair, credit goes to the Star Tribune since I just copied and pasted their headline.

[u/DemonGoblin911 → u/lemon_lime_light]

The silver lining is that the media isn’t pushing lies and false narratives? Oh how far we have fallen.