American Indians Have Bleak Future: ; Group Suffers High Rates of Suicide, Poverty, Teen Pregnancy
Sunday Gazette-Mail › March 28, 2005
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RED LAKE, Minn. - The obituary in the small-town paper was heartbreaking: Chase Albert "Beka" Lussier, born Dec. 23, 1989, died March 21 at Red Lake High School. A freshman who played basketball and loved computer games.
Six paragraphs down, beside the photograph of a chubby-cheeked, smiling boy, came this sentence: "He spent his time juggling life between his family and his son."See the full content of this document
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American Indians Have Bleak Future: ; Group Suffers High Rates of Suicide, Poverty, Teen Pregnancy
A father at 15. Dead three months later. Shot with eight others by an alienated, despondent upperclassman who, at the end of his 10- minute walk through Red Lake High School, turned one of his guns on himself.
The deaths, conspicuous in their senselessness, highlight the problems that American Indian teenage...See the full content of this document
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