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Red Lake Secondary Complex, formerly Red Lake Senior High School, is a public state-funded
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in
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Red Lake, in
Beltrami County Beltrami County ( ) is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,228. Its county seat is Bemidji. The county's name comes from Italian adventurer Giacomo Beltrami from Bergamo, ...
, northern
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, United States. The high school is located on the
Red Lake Indian Reservation The Red Lake Indian Reservation (Ojibwe: ''Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'iganing'') covers in parts of nine counties in northwestern Minnesota, United States. It is made up of numerous holdings but the largest section is an area about Red Lake, in n ...
on which members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa (
Ojibwe The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...
) Indians live, and has over 300 students. The school's
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s are the ''Ogichidaag'' and ''Ogichidaakwag'' (warriors and lady warriors). The school also hosts its own radio station, Ka-MOD (94.1 FM). The school is a part of
Red Lake School District Red Lake School District ISD #38 is a school district in Red Lake, unincorporated Beltrami County, Minnesota, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Within Beltrami County the district serves Red Lake, Little Rock, Ponemah, and Redby. It also serve ...
(Independent School District #38). Public education first began in Red Lake with the formation of School District 119. In 1935, ground was broken on the construction of what is now Red Lake High School, with the doors first opening to students in 1936. The school became well known after the 2005 shooting, receiving much attention in the media and internet.


Attendance zone

Within Beltrami County the district serves Red Lake,
Little Rock ( The "Little Rock") , government_type = Council-manager , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_party = D , leader_title2 = Council , leader_name2 ...
, Ponemah, and Redby. It also serves a section of Clearwater County.


2005 shooting

On March 21, 2005, 16-year-old
Jeff Weise Jeffrey James Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) was an American student at Red Lake Senior High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, who committed the Red Lake shootings on March 21, 2005. He killed his grandfather and his grandfather's ...
, a former student at the school, drove his grandfather's patrol vehicle to Red Lake High School. He first shot and killed the school security guard Derrick Brun, before proceeding through the school main hallway. He then entered an English classroom where he shot and killed three students and one teacher, and wounded three students. He later left the classroom and killed two students in the school main hallway. He later engaged in a brief shoot-out with police in a classroom. No officers were wounded. He then committed suicide inside a classroom by a shotgun-wound to the head. Weise had killed seven people inside the school, and had previously murdered his grandfather and his grandfather's companion at his home.


Ojibwe culture

Red Lake High School students can sign up for
Ojibwe language Ojibwe , also known as Ojibwa , Ojibway, Otchipwe,R. R. Bishop Baraga, 1878''A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language''/ref> Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian lan ...
classes (the language is also taught in elementary and middle schools in the district) and have a chance to learn Ojibwe traditions from community elders. A culture center, opened in 2004, is furnished in Ojibwe style. Decorations include carved animal symbols of the seven clans of the Red Lake Band (
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,
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, bullhead,
mink Mink are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera ''Neogale'' and '' Mustela'' and part of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, otters, and ferrets. There are two extant species referred to as "mink": the A ...
,
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,
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and
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) placed on a high shelf running around the room, and the words for the four directions carved into the walls.


References


Further reading

* Red Lake Tribal Council, Council Office, Library and Archives (tel. 218-679-3341)
Ojibwe language teaching





External links


Red Lake Secondary Complex

Red Lake Net News
{{authority control Educational institutions established in 1936 Public high schools in Minnesota Schools in Beltrami County, Minnesota 1936 establishments in Minnesota