Bde/Mde Maka Ska Community Conversation

Please join us on December 3 as we welcome the broader community to a practical and generative community conversation about Bde/Mde Maka Ska (currently called Lake Calhoun), with the theme “Water Wisdom: Carrying Us Into a Bold Future of Deep Restoration.” It will be an evening in which to envision bold possibilities that transcend the boundaries of the past, to call a powerful future into the present and to advance a more vital, valuable, and vibrant future. Food provided. All are welcome.

An initial community conversation about Bde/Mde Maka Ska was held at First Universalist on October 7. MNNativeNews did a story about it, which you can listen to below (or at this link).

“The Minneapolis Park Board recently recognized the original Dakota name for Lake Calhoun. Signs around the lake in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis officially now read Bde Maka Ska [buh-DAY muh-KAH-ska] and Lake Calhoun. The process to reclaim the original name has been rocky at times. But a new effort has begun to move past the divisions over the name. Reporter Melissa Townsend tells us more.”