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2005 Native American News Archive

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2005 Native American News Highlights

—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.

$75,000 Reward Is Real for Zuni Kachina

The hefty reward being offered for a stolen Zuni kachina is for real, according to a Santa Fe antiques dealer who said he’s working on behalf of an anonymous pueblo. Claudio Ortega contacted the Journal on Thursday and said he has been circulating a flier offering $75,000 for the 1880s kachina, which was stolen from the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos on Dec. 7. Ortega said the pueblo is offering $75,000 for the 17-inch doll because pueblo representatives are “afraid…

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Native veteran’s organization offers resources to those that served

In October 2004 an entirely Native American Veterans Organization, the National Native American Veterans Association, began operations. The Association, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK, is the first National Organization which has structured itself to work with both individual Native Veterans and Tribal Entities on a National basis.Continue to Native veteran’s organization offers resources to those that served →

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Chris Eyre to Direct Indian Country: Native Americans in the 20th Century

Chris Eyre will direct “Indian Country: Native Americans in the 20th Century,” a four-part series to air on PBS television stations nationwide. The “Indian Country” series is the follow-up to the acclaimed 1995 miniseries “500 Nations.” The new series will chronicle the history of Native American nations over the past 114 years, from the 1890 massacre of 300 Lakota at Wounded Knee to the present.Continue to Chris Eyre to Direct Indian Country: Native Americans in the 20th Century →

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The Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards

The highly anticipated arrival of the Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards ceremony at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino promises to be an extraordinary and unprecedented celebration of contemporary music by Native American artists to date. The Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards, or Nammys, will be held Thursday, February 10th, 2005 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.Continue to The Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards →

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Fort Robinson Break Out Spiritual Run honors Cheyenne tribal past

AUTHOR: Mike Stark, Billings Gazette Staff Writer The young Northern Cheyennes woke before dawn Thursday and began running in subzero temperatures in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The young men and women slogged through the wind and snow, retracing on foot a historic 400-mile trek their ancestors took 126 years ago after breaking out of the barracks at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, en route to Montana.Continue to Fort Robinson Break Out Spiritual Run honors Cheyenne tribal past →

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