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schiavo vs. red lake
2005-03-25 @ 11:16 a.m.
Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence Response to School Shooting Is Contrasted With President's Intervention in Schiavo Case March 25, 2005
By Ceci Connolly, Washington Post MINNEAPOLIS -- Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file tribe members -- voiced anger and frustration Thursday that President Bush has responded to the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with silence... ...The reaction to Bush's silence was particularly bitter given his high-profile, late-night intervention on behalf of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman caught in a legal battle over whether her feeding tube should be reinserted. "The fact that Bush preempted his vacation to say something about Ms. Schiavo and here you have 10 native people gunned down and he can't take time to speak is very telling," said David Wilkins, interim chairman of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the North Carolina-based Lumbee tribe... ...Even more alarming than Bush's silence, he said, is the president's proposal to cut $100 million from several Indian programs next year...
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