Native American Press / Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 2005-04-01

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INDEX
NEWS AROUND INDIAN COUNTRY
NEWS BRIEFS
COMMENTARY/EDITORIALS
CLASSIFIEDS
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Leech Lake Petition
Organizer's meeting
page 4
Nationally renowned
Pueblo artist Nora
Naranjo-Morse to
screen film at U of M
page 3
Deputy describes bullet
holes 'everywhere' at
Red Lake school
page 3
This week's Top 10
Reasons Leech Lake
RBC may call you
a terrorist
page 4
Conflict between
culture and reality
Hatch Opinion -
'right-on'
page 4
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in Red Lake High School shooting
VOICE      OF      THE      PEOPLE
By Bill Lawrence
During this past week, newspaper articles from around the
country and abroad, National
Public Radio stories and national
television coverage has focused
on the sad events of March 21
at Red Lake High school, when a
teenage boy shot and killed nine
people, wounded many others and
finally killed himself. Thousands
of words have been expended
describing the event over and
over again, each time adding new
details to the puzzle.
The latest twist in these tragic
events is the arrest of Louis
Jourdain, son ofTribal Chairman
Floyd "Buck" Jourdain. Chairman Jourdain has acknowledged
the arrest of his son. He expressed
the heartfelt sentiment that his son
would be cleared of any wrongdoing in the matter.
Louis Jourdain was arrested in
Red Lake on 3/27/05 as a result
of on going investigations.   He
is in federal custody, having
been charged with conspiracy in
connection with the Red Lake
shootings last Monday. Initially
his identity was not revealed.
Authorities cited confidentiality
rules regarding juveniles.
Thomas Heffelfinger, U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, said there
are upward of 40 agents, including
Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) and Red Lake law enforcement, involved in the still active
investigation.
According to a New York Times
story, anunnamed govenunent official said Federal behavioral scientists and profilers raised doubts
CONSPIRACY to page 5
:or Red Lake Tribal Chairman,
shooting becomes more personal
By Patrick Condon
Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Hours after
the school shooting that devastated his reservation, Red Lake
Tribal Chairman Floyd "Buck"
Jourdain said the Indian tribe
was hi die midst of "the darkest days in the history of our
people."
. A week later, it grew darker
still for Jourdain, when his teenage son was anested in die shootings diat left 10 people dead.
Federal authorities refused to
say what role Louis Jourdain may
have played in the attack, but a
govenunent official who was
briefed on die investigation and
RED LAKE to page 5
Leech Lake Special Meeting
removes LaRose's secretarial duties
By Diane E. White
CASS LAKE-On
Friday, March 25, 2005
from 9:00 to 11:25 at die
Palace Bingo Hall in Cass
Lake, Minnesota, a Special Meeting took place at
the request of at least 25
petitioners to address last
summer's resignation of
District I Committeeman, Burton
"Luke" Wdson. There were two
petitions for die Special Meeting.
The second petition questioned the
Leech Lake Reservation Business
Committee's (LLRBC) proposed
metro casino project.
All five Coimcil members were
present. At approximately 11:25,
the meeting was abmpdy adjourned
after a shouting match erupted
between Wilson and his niece,
Tammy LaRose, Archie's wife.
Goggleye adjourned die meeting
and walked out followed by all
diree District Representatives.
Tlie meeting was well attended
by interested tribal members.
Also, noticeably present were at
least four Tribal Pohce officers,
including Police Chief, Steve
Day, two Police Department
Investigators and several Palace
security guards.
On the Agenda was 1) an item
ARCHIE LAROSE
to amend Ordinarfce #1
Bylaws to allow for appointment of Alternate
Signatory Authority; 2)
Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig
School ANA grant; 3) Official Minute Taker; and
4) DisUict 1 Representative past resignation.
Secretary-Treasurer Duties Reassigned
Sharon Brown, a long-time
RBC Headquarters staffer, was
officially appointed as the Official
\ (unite laker at all Council meetings. I^aRose attempted to dispute
die appointment of his official
duties to a civilian and audience
members shouted, "We did not
elect Sharon Brown." Goggleye
quieted LaRose by saying, "You
are out of order," many times over.
This Resolution fuels the already
heated simation by effectively removing LaRose from important
decision-making business affecting all tribal members.
Resignation
There was no discussion open to
die public nor among the Council
regarding Wilson's-resignation
to run for Secretary-Treasurer in
LAROSE to page 5
Leech Lake
Tribal Members
Allege Tribal
Police Violating
Civil Rights
By Diane E. White
CASS LAKE-The Secretary-
Treasurer Ardiur "Archie" LaRose
was arrested twice and charged
widi Trespass' in March in Cass
County Court. Bodi charges were
dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and subsequently
transferred to the Leech Lake
Tribal Court.
On March 14, 2005, the Tribal
Attorney, Michael Garbow fded a
petition, Motion to Deny Transfer
to Tribal Court" with die Band's
court in an attempt to transfer the
dismissed charges back to die state
court. Garbow cites criminal code
609.605, subd. 1(b)(3) allows the
state court jurisdiction over Indians widiin the Reservation borders
and widiin tribady owned facilities. Garbow cites a Court of Appeals case, State v. LaRose, 543
N.W.2d 426,427 & 428 (LaRose
in this case is not Ardiur LaRose),
wherein the court concluded,
"Minnesota's criminal trespass
POLICE to page 3
Hatch doubts
legality of
Pawlenty
casino plan
By Brian Bakst
Associated Press
ST. PAUL - Gov. Tim Pawlenty's plan to build a Twin Cities
casino with diree Indian tribes
would probably be struck down
in court unless voters amend the
constitution to allow it, Attorney
General Mike Hatch's office
advised in a legal opinion issued
Wednesday.
The 18-page opinion concluded voters didn't envision
slot machines, roulette and craps
when they approved a lottery to
sell scratch-off tickets in 1988.
It also took issue with the way
profits would be split.
The opinion doesn't carry the
force of law, but it introduces
more ammunition for opponents
HATCH to page 4
Leech Lake holds open forum on
Metro Casino Project
"Tell us, what do you think we
could do. What could work help
our people? What could give us
the resources we need so we can
provide for those who need it?
Right now it has become increasingly difficult with the current finances, with the current problems
that we are facing. I would love to
give anybody the opportunity to sit
in a Chair up here for a week."
Chairman George Goggleye
By Diane E. White
CASS LAKE- Upon closing of die Special Meeting, the
crowd became vocal about the
proposed State Tribal Casino,
(aka the Metro Casino Project)
apparendy in belief that the RBC
was walking out on them without
addressing the issue.
Chairman Goggleye then admonished the crowd to be respectful, "the tiling about it is, standing
up and hollering and shouting
doesn't accomplish anydiing." A
woman dien shouted, "You guys
never accomplish nothing, not one
thing. ... We didn't elect Sharon
Brown to be Secretary-Treasurer,
come on."
The only information provided
by the Tribe to the audience
was "The MN Gaming Fairness
Proposal" and in diis handout, it
states optimistically, "[If] looks
as though 2005 is the year it will
pass." There was no explanation
of the handouts offered by die
Council. Nor was diere any explanation regarding die proposed
metro casino project.
One tribal elder, Delores Wakefield opposed the metro casino
stating it would forfeit our cliildren's future. She also stated most
of die Twin Cities tribal members
also oppose the proposed metro
casino project.
PROJECT to page 4
Governor's Tribal-Metro Casino
Bill Pushes Past House
Regulated Industries Committee
Red Horse explained the revenue share, "The money that is paid
to the state is listed very clearly and then the Tribe will take care
of all the operational expenses and then any money left at the
end for tribal distributions will go back to the sovereign entities
for all of their infrastructure needs. Because it is an off-Reservation casino all state sales taxes, property taxes will be paid."
By Diane E. White
St. PAUL, MN - Leech Lake
Chairman George Goggleye, Jr.
and White Earth Chairwoman
Erma Vizenor testified with the
Governor's Cliief of Staff Dan
McElroy to push the Minnesota
Gaming Equity Act bill forward
from the House's Regulated
Industries committee onto the
House's Tax committee—one
step closer to a full Senate vote
which woidd legalize this Bill
and allow die Red Lake Nation,
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and
White Earth Band of Ojibwe to
enter into a 20-year metropolitan
casino deal. Late Tuesday evening, the Regidated Industries
committee approved die Bill in a
12-11 vote, moving die Bill onto
the Tax committee.
Many Indian faces
were present to wiuiess
and testify against the
proposed Metro casino,
which diey believe will
dilute their tribal sovereignty
and place their respective Tribe
or Bands into long-term debt.
They carried signs requesting
the coimnittee members to vote
against the Bill. They gave, at
times, tearful or nervous testimony about die effects of deals
made widi state and federal governments diat have always had
long-term, negative effects upon
Indians everywhere.
Leech Lake Chainnan Goggleye
testified that die tribal entities'
were missing out on their piece
Leech Lake Chairman George Goggleye, Jr. and
White Earth Chairwoman Erma Vizenor testified
beforethe Minnesota House Committee on Regulated Industries Tuesday, March 28,2005. The
Minnesota Gaming Equity Act, H.F. 1817, was
approved Tuesday evening by one vote.
of the large Gaming pie due
to their northern Minnesota
location where casinos do not
generate die type of revenues
diat their urban casino counterparts do. He also confinned die
two Bands ability to enter into
an agreement to considt, negotiate, contract and conclude
agreements on behalf of dieir
respective Bands with federal,
state and local governments or
organizations on all matters
widiin the powers of die Res-
BILL to page 6
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Pallbearers carry the casket of Red Lake High School security guard Derrick Brun out of St. Mary's
Catholic Church in Red Lake, Minn., following funeral services for Brun Monday, March 28,2005. Brun
was one of the seven people killed by Jeff Weise, a 16-year-old student at Red Lake High School, one
week ago. Weise also shot his grandfather, his grandfather's companion and then himself.
Goodbyes, heroics and a time for change
By Bill Lawrence
President George Bush, in
a radio address of Sanirday
3/26, praised and singled
out Security Guard Derrick
Bnin for saving many lives.
Aldiough he was unarmed, he
confronted tlie shooter, who
was anned with a 12 gauge
shotgun and 2 handguns. The
President said, "Derrick's
bravery cost him his life and
all Americans honor him."
Lee Ami Grant, die surviving security guard, said Brun
went outside in at attempt
to talk the assailant down.
His action bought time and
allowed Grant to lead many
students (reports vary a to
the number but range from
12-16) down the hall and
out a rear exit to safety. By
holding Weise at bay, Grant
said Brim has saved her life and
die hves of die other snidents, one
of whom was his sister Victoria's
son.
Weise shot Brun widi the shotgun, at close range, in the chest.
Brun turned away. Weise shot him
a second time in the back.
Brun's family, aldiough filled
with grief, are comforted that
their son, and brother, died a
hero's death. Barb Brun, Derrick's mother, said of her son,
he, "wouldn't run. That was
the way he was. He would
never run when confronted by
anydiing. So it sounded like
he was trying to use his police
experience to try to get die kid
to think before he did it—to try
to get him to stop."
Chairman Floyd "Buck"
Jourdain said, "Their son is one
of our national heroes. We want
GOODBYE to page 3
Bush praises security guard
By Nedra Pickler
Associated Press
WACO, Texas — President Bush today praised
Minnesota high school security guard Denick
Brun for saving coundess students by bravely
confronting the teenage gunman who shot and
killed him.
BUSH to page 3
DERRICK BRIAN BRUN
Tribal
chairman: Son
innocent in Red
Lake shootings
By Amy Forliti
Associated Press
RED LAKE, Minn. - The
chairman of the Red Lake
Band of Chippewa on Tuesday
proclaimed his teenage son innocent of any role in last week's
slayings on the reservation,
calling him a ""good boy widi
a good heart"
Floyd Jourdain Jr., who has
served as the tribe's spokesman since 16-year-old Jeff
Weise killed nine people in
a rampage last week, said he
was confident an investigation
would clear his son, 16-year-
old Louis Jourdain.
The younger Jourdain is
a student at Red Lake High
School, where Weise killed
SHOOTING to page 5
Teacher killed in Red Lake shootings
remembered for selflessness
By Steve Kamowski
Associated Press
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) _ A teacher who was gunned down during a
rampage by a 16-year-old boy after
she stood in the open and prayed for
her students was remembered at her
funeral Monday for her "selfless
act of love."
More than 300 mourners attended the funeral at Calvary Lutheran Church for English teacher
Neva Rogers, who was shot by
Jeff Weise last week on an Indian
reservation.
"She symbolizes and embodies
all teachers everywhere, for the
courage it took, for the strengdi
it took, for the sense of wanting
that it took, to care, about odiers
widi all of yourself _ your entire
self," the Rev. Genelle Netland told
mourners. That" represents a gift to
everyone."
Rogers "will be remembered
always for a selfless act of love,"
Netland said.
Rogers, 62, was die only teacher
killed by Weise, a depressed teenager.
Authorities said Weise killed his
grandfadier _ a tribal policeman _
and the man's girifriend, then drove
to Red Lake High, where he shot
Rogers, a security guard and five
students, then committed suicide.
It was die nation's deadliest school
shooting since the bloodbath at
Columbine in 1999.
"I am in awe of die incredible
courage and faith she showed us
in those last moments," said Sen.
Mark Dayton, who is a former
schoolteacher.
Rogers, the only shooting victim
who was not of American Indian
descent, was laid to rest in an ivory
casket topped with a large bouquet
of red roses.
Services for Weise, security
guard Derrick Brun, and 14-year-
TEACHER to page 5