{"id":2649,"date":"2010-05-28T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minnesotahistory.net\/mhnetfix?p=2649"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:53:34","slug":"the-real-plans-for-saving-fort-snelling-from-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minnesotahistory.net\/staging\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"The real plans for saving Fort Snelling from attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Daniel Shagobince<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are some real plans that people are talking about for what to do about Fort Snelling and keep it from being attacked. You are going to want to read this because it is very topical,\u00a0 including all the parts some of you campers will not like at all.<\/p>\n

The guy who runs this website, that \u201cWhite\u201d guy, is telling me to stop talking trash about those rich people on the Minnesota River just south of Bloomington because other people are giving him carp about it and talking about sovereignty, which is really scary. OK, I get the message. I\u2019m a changed person of infindecimal characteristics and I will try harder because that is completely, exactly how vaguely defined I am.<\/p>\n

So, about Fort Snelling. That lady Nina Archabal (AKA Oprah), is retiring this year. When she said she was going to go she told a reporter that Fort Snelling will be a big honking job for the next Pope of the historical society because Fort Snelling was falling apart just like Humpty Dumpty. Earth to Oprah! Remember that part about \u201cAll the king\u2019s horses and all the King\u2019s may not be being able to put Humpty back together again\u201d? \u00a0Even I knew that. (By the way did you see that I didn\u2019t call it the “hysterical society” because you jokers need to know that calling it that is just lame and stupid especially when you are writing something that is pretty long and have to keep saying it because the editor says you have to be consistent?)<\/p>\n

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Fort Snelling: It’s the new white treat. It’s what’s for dinner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to what I hear from people who may or may not know, who are the best kind of people to tell you the real truth, those people at the historical society are planning all kinds of things to figure out how to handle Fort Snelling because it is a handful and because of what is going to happen between now and 2012 when all heck breaks loose. That lady Nina Archabal had her picture taken in front of Fort Snelling because as far as she was concerned: \u201cFort Snelling, it\u2019s the new white treat. It\u2019s what\u2019s for dinner!\u201d And she was going to be getting in there and taking a stand. She was going to be saying: \u201cIf those darn Dakotas think they\u2019re going to tear down Fort Snelling I will crush them with my fancy shoes!\u201d<\/p>\n

But now that that lady is retiring, those people are going to have to figure out what to do about that fort and about those darn Dakotas. Some people there are going to try and carry on what that Nina lady was planning, which is why that guy the other day said that the historical society was going to start planning for Dakota internment<\/a> there. He really said that! Can you believe it? The ad slogan was going to be: \u201cIt was great in 1862, why not now?\u201d<\/p>\n

But from what I hear there are people in that historical society who are a lot nicer (Mnisota wa\u00dftecake?) and they want to try some other things first before rounding up Dakotas into internment camps. They figure that pretty soon there will be people crawling over the walls and hanging signs saying \u201cTear Down this darn place!\u201d (Right, they’re really going to say “darn.”)\u00a0 Some of these people at the historical society used to work in art museums and they have good contacts with that artist\/ bagman Christo<\/a>, not the guy with the Greek restaurants, but the guy who hangs stuff up, wraps things, and puts covers over rivers. And it just happens to be the real truth that that Nina lady is a good pal of Christo, from way back when she did what she really liked, which was to run an art museum, instead of that boring carp, history.<\/p>\n

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Pretty soon there are going to be banners all over that fort with slogans on them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So what they were going to do is get Christo to wrap up Fort Snelling with sheets and sheets of sheets. Put it under a layer of something with some good tight ropes so it is protected for a few years, until at least 2013, after the 150th<\/sup> anniversary of the stuff that happened in 1862 and 1863 when the 38 (+2 later) Dakotas were hanged with ropes and the rest of them were wrapped up and shipped out of state, by the federal express of that time. I just happen to have some pictures here that these guys gave me showing how they were going to be wrapping up Fort Snelling. You\u2019ve got to give it to them. It is a great concept.<\/p>\n

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Fort Snelling, all wrapped up by Christo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the big obstacle for that is that there is this guy who is married to that other woman, who just happens to be running for governor, the wife, that is. And this guy is working for the historical society and he is saying: \u201cThose types in the legislature won\u2019t like this, paying all that dope for grak.\u201d (Because generally those types hate paying dope for grak or even crump, or so I am being told.) So he is putting a stop to that. And of course there are other people who think that wrapping up that fort is kind of weak, so they say that if you can\u2019t beat them up, join them. And they are all for getting that other guy Jim Denomie<\/a> (a really great guy and I really mean that, although I\u2019ve never met him, it\u2019s just something I hear from that \u201cWhite\u201d guy, who keeps going “Jim Denomie is such a great artist and a real mensch” or something like that and no one else ever says anything bad about him) that fort painter who\u2019s been working on plans of his own for the fort, including turning it into a hamburger place. They\u2019re going to call it Burger Bdote. I swear this is true, even though he is Anishinabe and that could be a problem for those darn Dakotas.<\/p>\n

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The new Burger Bdote at Fort Snelling, as inspired by artist Jim Denomie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But a lot of times a lot of guys at the historical society are always asking: \u201cBut what\u2019s the bottom line?\u201d Then they start talking about fund raising. And those guys have other plans. They are thinking they will show those other darn Dakotas a thing or two by turning over Fort Snelling to those folks with the money machine down the river to put their new money machine right there where it belongs at Bdote, right there inside Fort Snelling. And it will be called Mystic Bdote Junction. I mean Bdote really is THE junction, in case you were not aware. So what are the darn Dakotas going to be doing then, complain about other Dakotas? You can\u2019t tell me they would do that. I know they all get along with each other. They never fight. They are all kodas, at least the men are, and they are all niijikwes and nijikwenhs and copains and copines and druhs and tova<\/em>ryshes. Which is great because who wants to be in a room with relatives who are not getting along with each other? It is a P.I. T. B. And what\u2019s more you might get hit.<\/p>\n

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Mystic Bdote Junction, a new vision for Fort Snelling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the bottom line for this whole deal is that Nina Archabal (AKA Oprah) is now retiring and this whole problem is going to be a problem for who ever it is who has to fill her fancy shoes, or least her profile.<\/p>\n

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See! I didn\u2019t say anything bad at all about the folks with the money machine on the Minnesota River. They are the good guys in this story. They are going to save Fort Snelling! Just like I said I am a changed person. Or I least I have change, in case you need some spare for the penny slots.<\/p>\n

NOTICE: The opinions of Daniel Shagobince and the other commentators on this site are their own and do not represent those of www.MinnesotaHistory.net<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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