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.
A new film has Aleuts talking through the pain. Long-silent Aleuts revisit the suffering of World War II camps in a new documentary film set to air on Public Television this month.
Flore Lekanof was a teenager in June 1942 when the Japanese attacked Dutch Harbor to try to divert American forces from the naval battle at Midway.
We are pleased to announce that Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War has been selected for national PBS distribution through American Public Television’s Exchange Service. This two-hour documentary about a significant event in the early history of America has the potential of being shown by 145 local PBS stations nationwide. Forty-six stations have indicated their intent to broadcast, and another 18 are still considering. We need your help.Continue to two-hour documentary about the Pequot War →
My international movement to rename Minnesota’s Rum River is steadily gaining more and more support. Recently, several Minnesota legislators sent me letters wherein they thanked me for the work that I am doing to change this river’s derogatory name.
It’s a website for Native youth that’s long overdue! Native Youth Magazine.com is an online lifestyle magazine about Native youth on and off the reservation. By the touch of a button young Native people can now finally find out what their peers are doing, thinking and wearing in all regions of the U.S. and Canada! This is a magazine designed to encourage and inspire Native youth by promoting positive messages through articles, profiles, illustrations and photos. Select Native youth are…
Edited by Christopher SimmonsASPEN, Colo. – May 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — “Why, then, make so greatado about the Roman and the Greek, and neglect the Indian?,” wrote HenryDavid Thoreau in his Journal in 1857. A missing piece of what shaped thisicon and American consciousness will be revealed at a weekend seminar inAspen, Colorado June 3-5, 2005, entitled “Thoreau and the Evolution of theAmerican Mind: The Next Step.” Thoreau scholar, Bradley P. Dean, Ph.D., will introduce highlights of Henry’s 12 “Indian…
Chris Eyre and Scott Garen, the team behind the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s signature film A THOUSAND ROADS, have created a new production company, Seven Arrows Signature, for Native American films.
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