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The Ojibwe Indians

The Leech Lake reservation in Northern Minnesota, USA, is home to about 4500 indians of the Ojibwe Tribe.
As with most other American Reservations, Leech Lake shows signs of two hundred years of governmental neglect.
Inside the Indian Reservations, alcoholism, drug abuse, crime, other related problems are much higher than the areas around.
Such has it been for ages, but a slowly returning sense of pride might be the way out. Indian kids are now increasingly aware of their culture, and casinos and other businesses are slowly increasing employment.

I have spent a lot of time in the Leech Lake reservation, and this is my story:

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