{"id":64298,"date":"2022-07-14T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64298"},"modified":"2022-07-14T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:41:07","slug":"suicide-six-resort-changes-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64298","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Six Resort Changes Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/saskadenasix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"48\">We&#8217;re all soft. We get easily triggered. So it&#8217;s nice to see that the Vermont resort formerly known as <strong>Suicide Six<\/strong> is changing its name to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.saskadenasix.com\"><strong>Saskadena Six,<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; a name that celebrates the indigenous people of Vermont, and is more sensitive to mental health issues, according to a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/news-brief\/suicide-six-ski-area-announces-new-name-saskadena-six\/\"><strong>VT Digger<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMuch time, care and thought has been invested in the process to choose a name more representative of our values, one that celebrates its 86-year history, honors the Abenaki tradition, and will welcome future generations,\u201d <strong>Courtney Lowe<\/strong>, president of the Woodstock Inn &amp; Resort, which owns the ski area, said in a statement. \u201cWhile the name might be changing, the experiences offered on this beloved mountain are not.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new name reportedly means &#8220;the standing mountain&#8221; in&nbsp;the Abenaki language. But how will the new name affect people who can&#8217;t stand? And is this simply another appropriation of Indigenous cultures for business gain? If these questions are in your lane, please weigh in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/news-brief\/suicide-six-ski-area-announces-new-name-saskadena-six\/\">VTDigger<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all soft. We get easily triggered. So it&#8217;s nice to see that the Vermont resort formerly known as Suicide Six is changing its name to &#8220;Saskadena Six,&#8221; a name that celebrates the indigenous people of Vermont, and is more sensitive to mental health issues, according to a story on VT Digger. \u201cMuch time, care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64303,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64298\/revisions\/64303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}