# Great River Passage *Place in Saint Paul, Minnesota, named in a 2013 city council resolution* The Great River Passage is a place in Saint Paul, [[Minnesota]]. The only documented action involving it in this record is municipal. On January 9, 2013 the [[Saint Paul City Council]] unanimously passed a resolution directing the City and its Parks & Recreation department to identify and interpret sacred [[Dakota]] sites at [[Bdote]] and the Great River Passage.[^1] The project's history table records the same date, the same unanimous vote and the same directive.[^2] The resolution's own text, as the record quotes it, described "the genocide of the Dakota people in Minnesota."[^1] The record shows the council's directive. It does not show that the interpretive program was carried out. According to the at-issue record, the program's completion "is not documented on the city's own pages." No city page is cited in the record for or against completion.[^1] ## Who The resolution was passed by the Saint Paul City Council. It directed two parties, the City and Parks & Recreation, to do the identification and interpretation work.[^1] ## When The council acted on January 9, 2013.[^1][^2] As of the record's 2026 compilation, the at-issue record states that thirteen years had passed since the word "genocide" entered the municipal record. It identifies no published completion date for the interpretive program.[^1] ## Where The resolution names two locations for the interpretation of sacred Dakota sites: Bdote and the Great River Passage.[^1][^2] The record contains no further description of the Great River Passage, including its physical extent, the agency that administers it, or its earlier history.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The project's at-issue record lists the 2013 resolution as pair 33 in the section *Tier II — The Name on the Courthouse* (record AI-Ramsey-033).[^1] The record pairs the resolution with a January 2025 White House presidential action, *Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing*.[^3] The record's stated basis for the pairing is that the council's directive was unanimous and that no completion has been published. The record lists two underlying sources, from startribune.com and tcdailyplanet.net. Neither source is among the URLs available to this article.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki project, *At-issue record AI-Ramsey-033* (compiled 2026; source listed as *Warren E. Burger Apex Dossier* §VI) — records the Saint Paul City Council's unanimous January 9, 2013 resolution, its quoted "genocide" language, its directive on Bdote and the Great River Passage, and the absence of documented completion; underlying sources (startribune.com, tcdailyplanet.net) are not in the pack's allowed URLs. [^2]: Minnesota wiki project, *Ramsey County history table, row HE-0218* (2026) — records under Jan 9, 2013 that the Saint Paul City Council unanimously used the word "genocide" and directed Bdote and Great River Passage interpretation. [^3]: The White House, *Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing* (January 2025) — the presidential action the at-issue record pairs with the 2013 resolution; it does not itself document the resolution. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/