{"id":5935,"date":"2015-07-08T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:44:32","slug":"matthew-beckman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/08\/matthew-beckman\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Beckman contributes to Star Tribune commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Matthew Beckman<\/strong>, assistant professor of biology, joined his research collaborators Grant Two Bulls and Amy Myrbo in writing a commentary for the Star Tribune that voiced support for renaming Minneapolis&#8217; Lake Calhoun. As the commentary noted, recent events have initiated a debate regarding\u00a0whether the lake should return to its original name in the Dakota language: Mde Maka Ska.<\/p>\n<p>Beckman, Two Bulls, and Myrbo conducted research during summer 2014 that involved taking a core sample of lake sediment and studying its pollen content as a way to examine the ecological record of an early-19th-century Dakota agricultural village on its shore. This geological study of the lake showed a long history of Native American natural resource stewardship that extended centuries before the arrival of surveyors backed by John C. Calhoun, the lake&#8217;s namesake.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Star Tribune website to read, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/mde-maka-ska-a-minnesota-name-for-a-minnesota-lake\/312279351\/?section=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">Mde Maka Ska: A Minnesota name for a Minnesota lake<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Beckman, assistant professor of biology, joined his research collaborators Grant Two Bulls and Amy Myrbo in writing a commentary for the Star Tribune that voiced support for renaming Minneapolis&#8217; Lake Calhoun. As the commentary noted, recent events have initiated a debate regarding\u00a0whether the lake should return to its original name in the Dakota language: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[385,3607,1927,2438,2692],"class_list":["post-5935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-biology","tag-matthew-beckman","tag-minneapolis","tag-research","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}