Friday, October 30, 2009
City The City By The Salish Sea
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Make a note of it, Seattle. That's what you are:
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Board on Geographic Names today approved a proposal to use ‘Salish Sea’ as the collective name for the body of water that includes Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Georgia Strait.
God I love a Board on Geographic Names. Actually, what I really love is the United States Board on Geographic Names, which I first encountered during the great squaw debate in Oregon. This mighty federal board weighs important matters such as whether to change the name of, say, Oregon's Squaw Creek, or Yellowstone's Chinaman Spring, or Florida's Jewfish Creek. It is my dream to one day sit on this board.
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Is it The Salish Sea or Salish Sea? Because people who say "The Puget Sound" should have their genitals burned off with high-voltage electricity.
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@1 It would look stupid if Eli started a title without a capital letter.
Also, to be fair, the size of the cities in your name vary by quite a large degree.
Also, to be fair, the size of the cities in your name vary by quite a large degree.
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oh, and why does Nanaimo get to have it's entire name spelled out while others, like the capitals of each respective state/province for instance, are abbreviated.
How inconsiderate!
oh, and why does Nanaimo get to have it's entire name spelled out while others, like the capitals of each respective state/province for instance, are abbreviated.
How inconsiderate!
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It's a small step towards the full recognition of the importance and historical place of First Nations and their people, but nevertheless one well received by them im sure.
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My favorite renaming, from my former neck of the woods:
Amazingly, this name actually seemed to placate those involved.
Long before the first Euro-American emigrants trekked westward, this road was a trail used by the Takelma and Shasta Peoples as a trade route. With the arrival of settlers and gold-seekers, the trail quickly became a wagon road called “Indian Market Road.”
During the 1850s, the increased population of Euro-Americans, their occupation of traditional food gathering areas, and often hostile behavior, caused the most serious “Indian Wars” in U.S. history. In 1854, the bodies of several dead, possibly murdered, Native Americans were discovered along this road in a narrow prairie several miles northeast of this marker. For many years thereafter this portion of Oregon was known as the “Dead Indian Country,” and until recently, this road was officially called “Dead Indian Road.”
Recognizing the negative connotations associated with the name ”Dead Indian Road,” and acknowledging that many Native Americans lost their lives in this valley as a consequence of westward expansion, the name was changed to “Dead Indian Memorial Road” in 1993.
Amazingly, this name actually seemed to placate those involved.
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Lispers say "Salish sells seashells down by the seashore." And here's more Salish lore - perhaps more than you could possibly want:
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tr…
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tr…
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Because they came first and the 60 character rule required abbreviations. And for affirmative action, since they're the foreign cities and we in the USA always "just forget" Canada is there.
I was going to hit back with the fact that Vancouver has greater population but it doesn't.
But hey thanks for your Beckish patriotism!
Because they came first and the 60 character rule required abbreviations. And for affirmative action, since they're the foreign cities and we in the USA always "just forget" Canada is there.
I was going to hit back with the fact that Vancouver has greater population but it doesn't.
But hey thanks for your Beckish patriotism!
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@2: Nah, people who get uptight about the whole Puget Sound/The Puget Sound thing need to get their scrawny little testicles removed by Uptight Seattlite. Whoops, wrong paper.
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