A proposal has been submitted by a local SJW to change the name of a park in my small southwestern Florida city to honor the Calusa tribe which once controlled a large portion of our area of the state. This lovely park runs along the bay front of our fair city and is named for a founding family that did much over the years to settle the area and make it safe and prosperous and having done so sold this primo real estate to the City for $1.00. I am offering a counterproposal that, if the name is to be changed, a state of the art firearms range be built in place of the pickle ball courts and the park be renamed the “Andrew Jackson Peace Park and Family Recreational Shooting Facility. I feel this proposal is appropriate to honor “Old Hickory’s†work to bring peace to this area when certain indigenous tribes armed and instigated by British agents took to slaughtering and burning out white settlers. The Brits and other European powers of the day were keenly interested in preventing U.S. citizens from occupying Florida because of the potential it carried for the U.S. Government to claim sovereignty over the contested Peninsula by virtue of the number of U.S. nationals residing therein. Fortunately there was a man of the caliber of “The Hero of New Orleans†among our citizenry who was able to convince the marauding tribes to cease and desist despite their refusal to enter into a formal peace treaty. This led directly to the Colusas subsequently acquiring a large stake in a multi-billion dollar gaming empire to which for decades now white men have been paying exorbitant reparations for the tribe’s lost hegemony. It’s only fitting that Jackson’s contribution to the wellbeing of our Native American neighbors be recognized in this way within our municipality.