OOOOOOOOOOOH my god!!!! My friend son's is on the list!!!!!! My friend Terry lussier' son is on the list!!!!! This is terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been trying to get hold of him for a week now...Its terrible! I will e-mail him straight away. Thank you Ann..
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Updated: 05:41 PM EST
School Shooting Victims Being Laid to Rest
Indian Tribe to Bury Minnesota Victims
By AMY FORLITI and JOSHUA FREED, AP
A memorial for shooting victims is placed outside the Red Lake Senior High School in Red Lake, Minn.
· Slain Guard Described as Hero
· Teens Troubled on Reservations
· World Reaches Out to Red Lake
RED LAKE, Minn. (March 26) - With the bang of a drum and a high-pitched wail, the first funerals began Saturday for victims of the shootings on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in which 10 people died.
A lone mans sad cry gave way to songs and more drumming from a circle of a dozen men and soon hundreds of people who had gathered in the community center began filing past a pair of open caskets.
Daryl Lussier, 58, a tribal police officer, and his longtime companion Michelle Sigana, 31, were the first victims in Mondays attack by his grandson, Jeff Weise, 16.
More than 100 police officers attended the service for Lussier and Sigana, along with Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Sen. Norm Coleman. Every seat in the community center - bleachers, cafeteria tables, freestanding chairs - was taken.
After killing the pair in their home on the northern Minnesota reservation, Weise went to Red Lake High School, where he killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before shooting himself.
A third funeral, for 15-year-old Chase Lussier, was also planned Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church.
While investigators say they dont know Weises motive, a long trail of Internet postings paint a picture of a deeply depressed, suicidal boy. Friends and family members have said he had been taking the anti-depressant Prozac since a suicide scare last summer.
Family members told the New York Times that Weises dose was recently increased to 60 milligrams a day.
I can't help but think it was too much, that it must have set him off, an aunt, Tammy Lussier, told the paper.
Outside the Red Lake community center, which shares space with the Red Lake Band of Chippewas Seven Clans Casino, an electronic sign flashed a message: Red Lake Nation sends heartfelt condolences to all family members of tragic event. We are one in our sorrow and in our love.
On Saturday, President Bush made his first public comments on the shooting, praising a security guard credited with saving some students by confronting Weise. Bush said he and first lady Laura Bush were praying for the victims.
The Red Lake school isnt expected to reopen until next month.
It was the worst U.S. school shooting since the April 1999 rampage Columbine High School in Colorado, which ended in the deaths of 12 students, a teacher and two teen gunmen.
03-26-05 17:59 EST
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police were investigating whether a body found Friday is that of a 10-year-old girl who authorities said vanished with a registered sex offender. Cedar Rapids police canceled an Amber Alert for Jetseta Marrie Gage after the body was found in a rundown mobile home in a rural area near the small town of Kalona, about 45 miles south of Cedar Rapids. A positive identification of the body had not been made.
Code Amber?????
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Fifteen-year-old Thurlene Stillday was one of the students killed at Red Lake High School Monday. The death toll of 10 includes the suspected shooter.
Ed Blackthunder, a Sioux from Agency Village, South Dakota puts final touches on his Traditional Dance outfit at Rocky Boy. Below, his wife, Oriann Baker, affixes her Eagle plume which is held in reverence by all Native Americans.
Anyone with an ear to the ground, can tell that Powwows are gaining popularity not only due to a long needed upsurge in Native American Pride, but also due to the search by non-Native Americans seeking something of worth since much of their own “old values” seem to be falling by the wayside, be it spiritual or whatever. In powwows, there are several categories. Some of these, such as Men’s Fancy Dress/Women’s Fancy Dress, or Women’s Jingle Dress, while not tradition, are in fact based on traditional dances that were once part of spiritual ceremonies, preparation for war, healing rituals, or celebrations of triumph. It is said, when this article was written, that there was a book written regarding powwows and listed some 930 of them. I would imagine that nearly ten years later, this number has increased. (This comment not of the National Geographic article…Snow Owl)
Kids roam free through an instant village of 250 tepees pitched at the Pendleton Round-up in Oregon.
Rocky Boy resident Rena Denn, at right, leads visitors on a tour of her homeland below the Bear Paw Mountains.
Powwows have survived the ages, despite the efforts of early government agents determined to snuff out Indian culture. Indians gathered anyway, says a modern chief – “even under a guise of celebrating the white man’s Fourth of July.”
To put the jingle in the jingle dress, dancers sew silvery cones made from snuff-can lids onto ceremonial outfits. In the old days women used elk teeth, small bones, coins, and cowrie shells as noisemakers.
Filled with the comforts of home, the tepee of Ellen Cowapoo Johnson makes for a cozy stay the Pendleton Round-Up.
Beside the headdress that distinguishes him as Walla Walla Chief, William Burke visits with Ellen’s granddaughter, Candice Cowapoo. The fight to preserve Indian culture is endless, he says. “Reservation kids are enthralled by what’s happening in the white community.”
Young riders pause at sundown in the Little Bighorn River during Crow Fair in Montana. Legendary horsemen, Crow stage a rodeo at their powwow in which competitors ride bareback and jump from mount to mount in a three-horse relay race.
“My dad made me start dancing at age 3,” Says Jonathan Windy Boy age 35 at this time of photo. “He never said why, but I didn’t question.” A full-time professional powwow dancer, Windy Boy logged 26,000 miles in just two months in 1993 on the Powwow Trail, collecting prize money and more trophies for his Montana home. By training for stamina he says, “I’m probably good for another 20 years.”
A small splash of finery takes the floor at Red Earth as a youngsters moves with the throbbing drum beat during a competition.
Old Warrior was the nickname earned by Jim Swearngin, of Chippewa, Osage, Cherokee, Scottish and Irish descent, who commanded a gunboat in Vietnam when he was in his forties. “We got shot at a lot by snipers,” said Swearngin. “That’ll make your hair turn gray.” With his lance and Yakama Warriors Association cap, he joined the color guard that carried the U.S. and Yakama tribal flags at White Swan in the fall of 1993.
