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At School Shooting Site, an Isolated, Reclusive Life

NPR | By Alex Chadwick

Published March 24, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Dalton Walker, a member of the Red Lake band of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, about life in the isolated and somewhat reclusive reservation community. On Monday, 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot and killed nine people and wounded seven others before turning a gun on himself.

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