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KFAI's Indian Uprising for March
27th
Commentary regarding the tragic shooting on the Red Lake (Mis-kwaa-ga-mi-wi - zaa-ga'i-ga-niing) Reservation in Minnesota, March 21, 2005. In sorrow's shadow Remember this first as a tribal nation tragedy by Karri Plowman for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mar. 23, 2005 "The question I have is: How do we balance this in terms of it being a Minnesota tragedy or an Indian community tragedy?" Plowman is a Pioneer Press community columnist and executive director of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce. http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/opinion/11204627.htm Red Lake/Sharing a special place's pain, Minneapolis Star Tribune Editorial, March 23, 2005. "Indeed, the shock, fear and pain caused by a disturbed teenaged gunman's slaughter are widely shared, extending far beyond the boundaries of the tribal lands of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe." http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5307711.html But see beyond the shooting, Star Tribune Editorial, Mar. 23, 2005 "Red Lake is an isolated, beautiful but dirt-poor place where hope is hard to come by. It is a place where too many kids drift in and out of school as they choose." http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5307712.html Don't let politics intrude on grief in Red Lake, an Opinion piece from the St Paul Pioneer Press, Mar. 23, 2005, no byline. "The shootings that left 10 dead and seven with physical wounds must not be allowed to accelerate politics of guns or gaming, of economic development in a needy community or poor security in schools." http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/11204629.htm Amid Red Lake's media circus, look for the truth by Kent Nerburn, Minneapolis Star Tribune Opinion, Mar. 24, 2005. Nerburn is founder and past director of Project Preserve at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Reservation. "So watch to see if that is what this story becomes. And wonder why the same story in the wealthy suburbs of Denver did not immediately become fallow ground for sociological speculation about wealth, anomie, and fundamentalist Christianity gone awry." http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5309967.html Donations for the victims and families can be sent to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 574, Red Lake, MN 56671 or made at any Wells Fargo Bank. Transportation for families and friends. There's a need to get people back and forth from the Twin Cities area to Red Lake. Contributions to assist these relatives and friends can be done by donating fifty-dollar gas cards purchased at gas stations. These cards can be given easily and quickly for people to journey north. Please drop gas cards off or mail them to the Red Lake Urban Office, 1433 E. Franklin Ave.-ste.13A, Minneapolis, MN 55404. Their telephone number is 612-874-9588 There's an additional need for those who don't have vehicles. If anyone can help get donation of buses with drivers, either from schools, the city, the state or private companies to bring people up north over the coming days to attend ceremonies and funeral services, please contact Travis Zimmerman at TravisZ  AIOIC.ORG or call him at
612-341-3358.
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