A Public Apology from Red Lake Net News

On Wednesday, September 20, 2006, a letter was published on Red Lake Net News (www.rlnn.com) that was addressed to members of the Red Lake Community.  This letter talked about vandalism at the Catholic Cemetery in Red Lake.

At the time of this posting, and still today, I didn’t see anything ‘wrong’ with the letter, and I felt if this was really happening, that everyone should know about it.

I received a telephone call from the Red Lake Tribal Secretary’s office a few days later, whereupon members of one of the families mentioned in the letter, had taken offense to it and wanted a public apology for allowing it.

Like I mentioned earlier, I did not see anything wrong with this letter, but at the same time, Red Lake Net News doesn’t want to be in the position of offending anyone, and especially anyone who has passed on or their families.

Red Lake Net News therefore apologizes publicly for this letter, but isn’t sure what else might be requested by the person(s) making the request, since a third party was involved in making the initial statement.

Michael Barrett

RED LAKE NET NEWS