...a controversy has arisen over signs the Minnesota Historical Society [MHS] has placed at the fort, which is located in an area known as Bdote by the Dakota people.
The old signs simply read "Fort Snelling Historic Site," but newer signs now read "Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote," - a Dakota word meaning where two waters meet. In this case, the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
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"Without any public input that I am aware of, the Historical Society has changed the name of historic Fort Snelling, which is a military installation, to historic Fort Snelling at Bdote," Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.
He said he's also heard from veterans who are upset by the signs, and consider it "revisionist" history.
"I think it's a rewriting of our history and I'm not in favor of it," he said.
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David Kelliher of the MHS said Fort Snelling has not been renamed. Rather, the MHS has simply expanded the stories they are telling about what has happened there over 200 years.
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The debate comes as a revitalization project at the fort is scheduled to get underway. During the 2018 legislative session, MHS received $15 of the $30 million it requested for the project. And the MHS website says work is scheduled to get underway this fall.
A total of $19.5 million has been appropriated by the state for the project overall, and the MHS said $15 million has been pledged in private dollars.
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...DFL Senator John Marty and others take issue with the use of the term "revisionist history." And they say the entire MHS should not be punished over signs at one location.
"I guess I have a real problem when you're calling it revisionist history," said Marty, DFL-Roseville. "That it might not just be more accurate history. But aside from that, I think the concept of punishing the entire agency because you have a disagreement with them is a problem."
The DFL-controlled House and Gov. Tim Walz have not proposed any cuts to MHS funding.
MN DEM State Senator John Marty
Senator Marty is an exclusive member of the "Never Met A Spending Issue, Tax hike or Fee implementation that I Didn't Favor" Club. Reducing Funding is the only thing institutions like the MHS understand. "Fund [Name a Project] our way or we're going to make financing difficult" is straight out of The Leftist Playbook. Financially penalizing a business, an organization, an association, a "body" is what The Left lives for and thrives upon. It is their sacred lifeblood.
Tying public funding to a political ideology is the basis of Leftist methodology. Marty's been part of the state legislature for the past 600, 700, 800 years. He's thoroughly institutionalized, a deeply seated Blue-as-Blue DEM.
The only people looking out for the taxpayers are the elected Republicans and more importantly, Minnesota's New Republicans. Voters may woke to this some day.
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