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Racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation were discussed at first Turtle Island Project Native American Roundtable in Munising, Michigan 

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, stands above the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.

Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians.

(photo by Jim Dahlheimer)

TIP NA Roundtable included discussion of Native American authors; Books by late great Native American author Vine Deloria Jr were discussed at roundtable

Turtle Island Project (TIP) Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard holds up one of several books on Native Americans during the TIP first Native American Roundtable and conference on Sept. 13-15, 2007 at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising.