Native American news and events that occurred in Indian Country in 2005.
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—The Red Lake massacre was an incident of spree killing that occurred in two places on the Red Lake reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. The first murders began on the morning of March 21, 2005, when 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend.
He later drove his grandfather’s police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he shot and killed seven people on the school campus, comprising five students, one teacher and an unarmed security guard, and wounded five others. The shooting ended when Weise committed suicide.
Billions of dollars will potentially be lost if tribes do not file claims with the Department of Interior to negotiate settlements that will recoup lost revenues owed to the tribes for leases, royalties and sale of property.Continue to Tribes may lose on trust fund payments →
A group of urban Native American high school students launched a Web site that acts as an educational site for the public and a useful source to Valley Native Americans, especially parents.Continue to Students launch Web site to lend insight about Native Americans →
To the American Indians who hold them sacred, the seven rocks in the way of
Paseo del Norte's westward expansion aren't inanimate stones.
They're alive. They're connections to their sacred earth that can't be
replicated 100 feet away.
Continue to Apaches say moving rocks 100 feet would destroy their spiritual significance →
Lewis and Clark - An excavation turns up no physical evidence of the
explorers' stay at Ft. Clatsop. A 200-year-old mystery remains unsolved.
Continue to Closest look yet at Fort Clatsop leaves mystery →
AUTHOR: Jan-Mikael Patterson, Navajo Times Native American director Chris Eyre delivers an impressive layup shot with his new film “Edge of America,” a Showtime original picture airing later this month on cable TV, co-produced with Shelia Tousey. The film opens as African American English teacher Kenny Williams, played by James McDaniel, travels to his new teaching job at Three Nations High School, located on a fictional Indian reservation in Utah. All Williams knows about the new job is what he…
POSTED BY Colorado AIM In Honor of Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005) The great indigenous visionary, philosopher, author and activist Vine Deloria, Jr. passed over to join his ancestors on November 13, 2005.Continue to Vine Deloria Jr. walks on →