Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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NONFICTION: For those who wonder how and why Red Lake is different, an insightful review of a people's history. In "Warrior Nation," Anton Treuer tells of the Ojibwe people's migration from the East Coast to "the land where food grows on water," a 2,000-mile journey to northern Minnesota that took many centuries and resulted in conflict with the Dakota Indians. He tells of the Old Crossing Treaty of 1863 and other land cessions that reduced the Red Lake Ojibwe's territory from 20 million acres...
Missy Dodds was at a Twin Cities service station Friday when the first news bulletins out of Newtown, Conn., flashed around the world. “I was flipping through my phone, and I saw it, and I started crying,” she said. And she remembered. Dodds, 38, was a high school math teacher in Red Lake, Minn., on March 21, 2005, when a 16-year-old student burst through the glass window of her classroom and continued the killing he had started minutes before in the hallway. Ninety seconds later, five of...