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  About the Red Lake Indian Reservation
The Red Lake Indian Reservation is located in the northern Minnesota counties of Beltrami and Clearwater, approximately 30 miles north of Bemidji.
This unceded land is spoken of as the "diminished" reservation and "aboriginal" land.
Red Lake is the location of the tribal headquarters, a renovation of what was once the Red Lake Hospital in 1996.
www.rlnn.com /newsarticlesnov03/aboutRL.html   (1272 words)

  
 Failure Magazine-Archives-History-Indian Summer
The Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota became infamous in March as site of the deadliest school shooting since the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999.
Yet, while mainstream media coverage of Indian affairs might indicate otherwise, native America is in the midst of a dramatic resurgence.
Indians have made progress, having brought unemployment down from fifty, sixty or seventy percent down to 22 percent in the most recent census.
www.failuremag.com /arch_history_indian_summer.html   (1841 words)

  
 Red Lake: Back to the Future - Minnesota Conservation Volunteer: Minnesota DNR
The Red Lake Fisheries Association voluntarily closed commercial fishing on tribal waters in 1997, and the Red Lake Tribal Council suspended subsistence fishing in 1998.
All waters and land within the Red Lake Reservation are held in common by the approximately 10,000 members of the Red Lake Nation.
On the western three-fifths of Upper Red Lake and all of Lower Red Lake, the Red Lake DNR is developing interim regulations and slot limits for band members fishing for subsistence, according to tribal DNR fisheries director Pat Brown.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /volunteer/mayjun06/red_lake.html   (1901 words)

  
 17-year-old charged with triple homicide
Prior to the conference in Red Lake however, Paul McCabe of the FBI issued a statement, confirming 8 had died in the shooting, 2 were male students and 2 were female students--including the shooter, a juvenile male--a female teacher, an adult male, and at the residence, a male and female.
Red Lake's School District consisted of the high school, a middle school and elementary school located in Red Lake, and another K-8 grade school in the Ponemah District about 25 miles north of Red Lake.
The Red Lake Police Department handles a lot of the misdemeanor cases and assists the FBI on their felony cases.
www.rlnn.com /ArtMar05/Shooting.html   (1515 words)

  
 Red Lake shooter's bleak portrait of reservation life was accurate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
RED LAKE, Minn. -- In the months before he killed his kin, classmates and himself, Jeff Weise painted an utterly nihilistic -- and often eloquent -- word portrait of life on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
In his dark and self-pitying depictions of life on the reservation, Weise appears to have drawn from his singularly troubled personal history: When he was 8, his father committed suicide on the reservation after a standoff with police.
In Washington this week, the director of behavioral health for the Indian Health Service, which provides health care at Red Lake and for hundreds of reservations across the country, said the complex behavioral problems that have scarred several generations of Weise's family are all too common on reservations.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05084/477380.stm   (868 words)

  
 History of Red Lake County
The area of the new county consisted of the current counties of Red Lake and Pennington, minus the northeast corner which was then part of the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
In February of 1904 when a treaty was signed with the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the Red Lake Reservation which granted to the county the lands north of the Clearwater river in the east.
The Red Lake County that we know today was completed in 1911 when Pennington County was formed out of the northern part of Red Lake County.
www.redlakecountyhistory.org /formation.htm   (215 words)

  
 Red Lake Indian Reservation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is home to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, and is the most populous reservation in the state according to the 2000 census, which recorded 5,162 residents.
The reservation's largest community is Red Lake, on the south shore of Red Lake.
During this period, some of the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians refusing relocation to the Turtle Mountains or the White Earth Indian Reservation escaped to the Red Lake Reservation because it was "untouched Indian land".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Lake_Indian_Reservation   (1080 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Poverty compounds tough reservation life for Indian youths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) — The obituary in the small town paper was heartbreaking: Chase Albert "Beka" Lussier, born Dec. 23, 1989, died March 21 at Red Lake High School.
Nationwide figures show that American Indian teenagers commit suicide at three times the national rate; are involved in alcohol-related arrests at twice the national average, and die in alcohol-related incidents at 17 times the national average.
The boy grew angry in class at the reservation, she said, and he was pulled out by his relatives and sent to public school.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-03-27-reservation-life_x.htm?csp=34   (1104 words)

  
 SitNews - Red Lake Reservation: A troubled history By Sharon Schmickle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Red Lake High School, where a student gunned down seven people before killing himself Monday, scored second-lowest of Minnesota schools last year on state comprehensive tests for 11th-grade math and third-lowest for 10th-grade reading.
On the reservation, which is largely closed to outsiders, all of the Red Lake High School students are American Indian, the state report said.
Red Lake has pulled itself up recently, reducing its poverty rate during the 1990s, but more than four in 10 residents remained unemployed, according to a recent census report.
www.sitnews.us /0305news/032205/032205_shns_redlake.html   (571 words)

  
 Councils at Red Lake, 1889
The Indians of the Red Lake Indian Reservation gathered at Red Lake and assembled with members of the Commission and then they proceeded to the Boarding school building where the Council was to be held at 2 O'clock P.M. The Commission was introduced by B.
At Red Lake a two-thirds vote of all the male Indians of eighteen years of age was.
He said the reservation is surrounded by whites and they are the ones that steal the timber and set the fires and cut on our side of the line.
uts.cc.utexas.edu /~woss/redlake2/redlkmin.html   (4976 words)

  
 EPA Region 5 Tribes - Red Lake Band of Chippewa
The Red Lake Indian Reservation, located in north-central Minnesota, is one of two closed Reservations in the United States, and contains the largest land base in U.S. EPA Region 5 that is entirely under Tribal ownership.
Red Lake land holdings total over 837,000 acres, and contains approximately 428,560 acres of forest, 236,500 acres of lakes, 439,043 acres of wetlands, and 55 miles of rivers and streams.
Approximately 6,500 enrolled members live on the Reservation, with another 3,500 members residing off the reservation, most of who live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and still use the vast natural resources of the Reservation.
www.epa.gov /Region5/tribes/tribepages/redlake.htm   (264 words)

  
 Red Lake News
Red Lake, Minn. Authorities believe they have ruled out a familial abduction in the disappearance of two young brothers.
RED LAKE, MINN: 2 little boys missing from reservation in Minnesota Searching resumed early Friday for two young brothers who disappeared from their home on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
Red Lake, Minn. The Minneapolis FBI is investigating the fatal shooting of a man -- allegedly by tribal police officers on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
www.topix.net /city/red-lake-mn   (892 words)

  
 8 Dead in School Shooting on the Red Lake Indian Reservation
Red Lake Conservation Enforcement officers patrol outside Red Lake Middle School, right and the Red Lake High School, in the background, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minn. on Tuesday, March 22, 2005.
The death toll at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in far northern Minnesota made it the nation's worst school shooting since the rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in April 1999 that ended with the deaths of 12 students, a teacher and the two teen gunmen.
A writer who identified himself as Jeff Weise of the Red Lake Reservation posted the messages under the nickname "Todesengel" — German for "angel of death." An April 2004 posting by him referred to being accused of "a threat on the school I attend," though the writer later said he was cleared.
www.prophecykeepers.com /redlake.html   (2245 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
RED LAKE, Minn., March 25 - In their sleepless search for answers, the family of Jeff Weise, the teenager who killed nine people and then himself, says it is left wondering about the drugs he was prescribed for his waves of depression.
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - The Indian reservation where 10 people died in a shooting spree Monday is located in a remote area of northern Minnesota, and is home to one of the poorest tribes in the state.
RED LAKE, Minn. - A high school student went on a shooting rampage on this Indian reservation Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, "grinning and waving" as he fired, authorities and witnesses said.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=redlakereservation   (5132 words)

  
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Serve:  The aspect of service is expressed by and to the members of the parish and broader Red Lake community through emergency aid, education and action for social justice with special emphasis on poverty, racism, sexism, violence and respect for all at all stages.
Mary’s Mission Church was established on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in 1858 with Father Lautischar as it’s first pastor.
The Red Lake Indian Reservation is one of two closed reservations in the United States.
www.crookston.org /redlake/booklet.htm   (1293 words)

  
 Reservation for death - Salon
Jeff Weise's murderous rampage at the Red Lake Indian reservation horrified the nation.
Dash was known to his neighbors as "a real nice guy when he was sober." When Jeff was 7, his father holed up in his house in Red Lake and killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head in a standoff with police, as his own father tried, unsuccessfully, to talk him down.
The Red Lake reservation, which sprawls across more than 400,000 acres of woods and wetlands, is a world unto itself, isolated politically and geographically from the rest of the state.
dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2005/08/08/red_lake/index.html   (771 words)

  
 Red Cross Mental Health Workers Respond to Minn. School Shooting
Friday, March 25, 2005 —; Four days after the Red Lake High School shooting left a tight-knit Native American community shaken by the murder of nine residents, American Red Cross mental health workers are still on the scene offering emotional and psychological support.
Upon the request of tribal elders from the northern Minnesota reservation, seven Red Cross mental health professionals are working closely with the community’s caregivers such as local counselors, teachers and school staff.
Red Lake Indian Reservation is located in a remote area of northern Minnesota.
www.redcross.org /article/0,1072,0_312_4156,00.html   (559 words)

  
 PC(USA) - Presbyterian Disaster Assistance - Current Response - United States - Red Lake Indian Reservation School ...
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is actively seeking opportunities to respond to the tragic shooting at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, which claimed ten lives.
Based on information gathered to date, there is no Presbyterian ministry active on the reservation, nor has their been any direct impact of the shooting on our congregations in Bemidji and Grand Rapids.
Please keep the loved ones of those killed and injured, the school administrators and teachers, the residents of the reservation, and the caregivers in your thoughts and prayers.
www.pcusa.org /pda/response/usa/schoolshooting-redlake.htm   (235 words)

  
 Red Lake, Minnesota, Ojibwe Reservation
Red Lake alone of Minnesota tribes rejected Public Law 280, so unlike other Minnesota reservations, Red Lake retained criminal and civil jurisdiction (except for the federal Major Crimes Act) over its remaining lands and its citizens.
Red Lake governs itself and does not belong to the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Federation, which has various economic and other powers over its members, the other Ojibwe reservations in Minnesota, who all belong to the MCT.
Red Lake rejected this, and goes it alone, though there are many relationships and intermarriages among Anishinaabe peoples of Red Lake and the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (federation).
www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/mn/redlake.htm   (903 words)

  
 INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES. Vol. 3, Laws
Whereas James McLaughlin, United States Indian inspector, did, on the tenth day of March, anno Domini nineteen hundred and two, make and conclude an agreement with the adult male Indians of the Red Lake Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, which said agreement is in words and figures as follows:
I hereby certify that the total number of male adult Indians, over eighteen (18) years of age, belonging on the Red Lake Reservation, is three hundred and thirty-four (334), of whom two hundred and twenty (220) have signed the foregoing agreement.
It is understood that nothing in this agreement shall be construed to deprive the said Indians belonging on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota, of any benefits to which they are entitled under existing treaties or agreements not inconsistent with the provisions of this agreement.
digital.library.okstate.edu /kappler/Vol3/HTML_files/SES0028A.html   (760 words)

  
 USNews.com: School shootings bring horror to the Red Lake Indian Reservation
The new culture room at Minnesota's Red Lake High School is a thing of beauty, a circular space rising two stories to the skylights above.
Eight feet up, the walls are ringed with wood carvings of the symbols for the seven major clans of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa: Bear, Turtle, Bullhead, Eagle, Mink, Pine Marten, and Kingfisher.
He was known to have had a crushingly difficult life: his father a suicide, his mother confined to a nursing home after a devastating car accident, his early years reportedly marked by abuse and neglect.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/050404/4redlake.htm   (493 words)

  
 Red Lake Nation Foods Incorporated - About Us
Red Lake Nation Foods Incorporated - About Us The Red Lake Indian Reservation is located in northern Minnesota counties of Beltrami and Clearwater, approximately 30 miles north of Bemidji.
Today, the tribe’s Independence Day, July sixth is in honor of the courage of their chiefs in resisting allotment during the negotiations of the 1889 Nelson Act.
The reservation completely surrounds Lower Red Lake, the state’s largest lake, and includes a major portion of Upper Red Lake.
www.redlakenationfoods.com /about.html   (385 words)

  
 News from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One was there there are many members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians who reside in the Twin Cities Metro area and were not able to return to the Reservation for the funerals there.
There was also traditional Indian drumming and the use of "smudge pots," from which rose the smoke of sage and cedar.
He is a traditional spiritual elder of the Red Lake Tribe and was introduced to some before the service as a "Medicine Man." In his remarks Stillday reported that this was his first time in a church.
www.episcopalmn.org /News_RedLake_042705.htm   (1285 words)

  
 Real cause of the Red Lake tragedy
That’s the question residents of the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota are asking after 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot to death his grandfather and grandfather’s partner, before killing seven people at Red Lake High School--including a teacher, security guard and five classmates--and finally turning the gun on himself.
Like much of the reservation system, Red Lake suffers from high rates of poverty, lack of funding and social problems.
Although poverty levels at Red Lake declined somewhat during the 1990s, more than four out of 10 Red Lake residents are unemployed.
socialistworker.org /2005-1/537/537_02_RedLake.shtml   (543 words)

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