Priest Point Park officially renamed to Squaxin Park
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thejoltnews.comPosted Apr 27, 2022, 6:29 PM UTC
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thejoltnews.comThis is still so weird to me. So very few of our members even knew this was happening. Many of us knew there were talks of renaming, but not that it'd be named after our tribe specifically. It's created a bit of a stir. Many people wanted a name that represented more than just our tribe.
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That's wild.
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So very few of our members even knew this was happening.
As in members of the Squaxin? Weird
Many people wanted a name that represented more than just our tribe.
I'm curious what names would have been preferred
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Before I say more, I feel the need to mention that I am individual tribal member, who is not on council or an official representative in any capacity. The opinions and thoughts I share here are those I've heard from individuals, and do not represent our tribe as a whole.
But yes, as in Squaxin Island tribal members, and some of the others nearby, had mentioned wanting other names.
The park is located in the Budd inlet close to where the steh-chass village originally was. Many of us wanted that reflected. Or at least something honoring the seven inlets and those who were forced from their homes onto the island.
Apparently the cultural committee met with Olympia City Council to make the decision but the tribe has been having some internal issues regarding how our committees are formed and I think that's how we got to a point where so many of us feel unhappy with the name.
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Nice!
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This is so preformative, if they really wanted to do good they would give the land back to the Squaxin people.
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I agree - #landback should be the ultimate goal, but I think we can also celebrate the small things.
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But this isn't a step towards returning that land so what about it deserves celebration?
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Changing names is a small part of the process of decolonizing our natural spaces. It’s why Interior is currently looking to remove slurs from over 660 geographic place names around the country, with 18 of these here in Washington. Yes it’s liberal performativism but I think still overall a net gain.
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If you're still keeping the land then it's still being colonized. Changing the names isn't "decolonizing" anything.
I don't see this as a victory, it's a distraction and a way of looking progressive while changing nothing at all.
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Now they need to do some investigation into how many indigenous kids are buried there.
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Whoa, what? Can you elaborate? Thank you!
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There was a mission that ran a school for native boys. https://olympiahistory.org/priest-point-park/
School grounds in Canada have recently been in the news for uncovered mass graves
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It’s about time! Wonderful news
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It's great virtue signaling until you realize the Squaxin didn't inhabit that area, it was the Steechas I believe? I am sure I screwed that spelling up though. However, historical inaccuracies be damned, we all feel good!
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The Steh-Chass are one of the seven bands of the Squaxin Island Tribe.https://squaxinisland.org/government/who-we-are/
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Interesting.
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nice
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its cool
this kind of stuff always makes me wish people would spend time fixing the overall problems though, i wonder how much time and money was spent renaming a park that will likely be gone less than a century from now due to the collapse of our ecosystems/civlization.
maybe leftists will finally get to return land to indigenous peoples when most of WA state is desertified
i guess people are downvoting me because they dont want to do landback or they think it will happen in a meaningful timeframe or something, which, lol? landback will likely require complete regime change in the US, which would mean revolution, which looks like we're just getting more fascism and more fascism instead.
Performative name changes do nothing. Collapse isn't coming, its here, realistically speaking it has been for some time, but the effects are starting to really get going these past few years. Maybe we can rename Olympia before the poorest people in WA state starve to death because the USA can't produce food, which unsurprisingly the poorest are a large portion of the people descended from the squaxin people. More likely we'll just see the west finish the genocide of indigenous peoples in the USA or harry potter rename slitherine
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What what does even less good than performative name changes? Whining about them online.
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stay silent you fool, do not engage in words - Marl Karx
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The Supreme Court gave half of Oklahoma back to the Muscogee Creeks in defiance of the petrochemical industry, and in adherence to a treaty more than a century old. Just saiyan.
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Muscogee Creeks
"The justices decided 5-4 that an eastern chunk of the state, including its second-biggest city, Tulsa, should be recognised as part of a reservation" dunno, just sticking more native/indigenous peoples into bigger and bigger reservations doesn't seem like its in the spirit of the landback movement, especially when the vast majority of that land and labor is still being exploited by western white colonizers, but hey, nit picking I guess.
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"Reservation" as a word has bad optics, but in this case the Supreme court has effectively ceded half of a state to another political entity with inherent sovereignty. That's 100% "land back". More and bigger reservations is a tremendous improvement over less and smaller, neocolonialism or not.
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It really doesn't seem like it materially changed anything at all? As far as I can tell no ownership of any land was actually changed and the mcgirt decision has to do almost solely with criminal jurisdiction rather than anything else, I might be wrong, but I don't see that any resources or actual land has been transferred into tribal ownership, the "half" of Oklahoma involved in the mcgirt decision seems to cover ~10% of land, but again I don't see any evidence that any sort of actual transfer of ownership of land has occured. Seems this is something that is being highly misrepresented.
"Why McGirt Does Not Affect Land Ownership Today, the reservation lands guaranteed to the five tribes in the 1866 treaty area are almost entirely owned by non-tribal members as private property. This is the legacy of the Oklahoma Enabling Act of 1906 as well as various Congressional allotment acts – or so-called “Indian homesteading” laws – in which treaty lands held by tribes were parceled out to individual tribal members, with the bulk of the remaining lands declared surplus and sold to non-Indians. McGirt does not alter land ownership, but it does uphold the 1866 treaty in another way. In a 5-4 decision, the Court held that the Creek Nation’s 1866 treaty area, which includes the City of Tulsa and about one-third of the state, was never eliminated (the legal term in the Court’s precedent is “disestablished”) for purposes of the Creek Nation’s exercise of its inherent sovereign power to prosecute crimes involving Indians. More specifically, an 1885 statute, the Major Crimes Act (MCA)2 permits the federal government to exercise criminal jurisdiction over certain felonies arising on Indian reservations."
In the end it seems like a great big ol' nothing and maybe even left large portions of people worse off if all of a sudden the feds are rolling in to arrest all the brown people.
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Lmao. Seek help you are deranged 😂
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In what way?
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I hope that that person updates their recurring missed connections post on craigslist.