The Red Lake Indian Reservation is located in the north-central Minnesota counties of Beltrami and Clearwater. It is home to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa. The reservation has a number of different parts, covering 830,000 acres in northern Minnesota. One of the largest is the section that includes Upper Red Lake and Lower Red Lake. The town of Red Lake, Minnesota is located on the reservation. The reservation was formed in 1889. In the 2000 census, the community recorded 5,071 residents, making it the most populous reservation in the state. However, the state's largest city, Minneapolis, had a greater number of Native American residents that year, 8,378. State nickname: North Star State Other U.S. States Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Governor Tim Pawlenty Official languages None Area 225,365 km² (12th)  - Land 206,375 km²  - Water 18,990 km² (8. ... Beltrami County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. ... Clearwater County is a county located in the state of Minnesota. ... For other uses of Chippewa, see Chippewa (disambiguation). ... Reservation is something reserved. ... There is also a Red Lake County in Minnesota. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...

March 2005 shootings

On March 21, 2005, Jeff Weise, a Red Lake High School student, shot dead ten people and injured several more. The gunman also killed himself. March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jeff Weise around 9 years of age Jeffrey Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) was a high school student of Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the Red Lake High School massacre, a school shooting in which he killed nine people and injured more than a dozen others before committing... Red Lake High School is a public state-funded high school in Red Lake, in Beltrami County, northern Minnesota, USA. The high school is located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on which members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians live, and has over 300 students [1... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life. ...

External links

• Red Lake Nation (http://www.redlakenation.org/)
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council: Red Lake (http://www.cri-bsu.org/IA_web/htdocs/tribes/redlake.html)