Tribe lights a pipe of solace as the secret life of 'NativeNazi' emerges

[emad]

March 24, 2005

Times
By James Doran
Red Lake elders call for a return to tradition after teenager’s fatal rampage



ELDERS of the Red Lake Chippewa tribe urged their bereaved members to seek solace in ancient Native American traditions yesterday to heal the psychological wounds of Monday’s carnage.

Tribal elders gathered at their council building, 200 yards from the high school where Jeff Weise, 16, went on the killing rampage that claimed the lives of nine people before he committed suicide.

Residents of this impoverished reservation in the frozen Minnesota prairie lit a long pipe in a ceremony of remembrance. The bowl of the pipe, the room was told, represented the circle of life. The room filled with the pungent aroma of cedar wood and tobacco as the 50 people crammed inside chanted incantations.

“Nobody knows what to do,” Cindy, a mother of one and teacher at the local kindergarten, said. “I know what to tell my 13-year-old son but I don’t know what to tell the little ones.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1539120,00.html

[Dez]

1. All natives

are praying for them in Bemidji. This is a tragedy, but this will bring people closer together.

[Sequoia]

2. Getting American news from Britian because here it's all about .....

The boy was on Prozac. So sad. Why do we give drugs like that to children? Poor boy, I feel so sad for him and all the ones who died. He probably felt unloved and unwanted, plut the fact that his father killed himself and his mother was in that accident.

[Pachamama]

3. So much sadness and tragedy in this whole thing for the tribe...

....what is ofcourse even sadder, is no different than if Jeff Weise had been a tribal member who in the days of the settlers had gone to join the "White Man" coming through the territorial lands, the Neo-Nazi sites that he tried to become a part of to betray his own people, would have ultimately tossed him aside because he wasn't "White and Pure"....

This is going to be a time of deep reflection for the tribe...I hope they can get back to their tribal elders teachings and learn from this....It is a warning on many levels of what is ailing them and our world if something isn't done....

PS: All above is true for us too...its not just applicable to native tribes....we are all members of the human tribe...

[frictionlessO]

4. The 7th generation just shed another tear...ah ho!

to all our relations...