Winnebago Member Among Bridge Victims

[Wachinika]

http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/08/04/news/nebraska/doc46b3bd946466c743717381.txt

I offer prayers for Ms. Blackhawk, her family and friends. We are all connected in many ways.

[Wachinika]

Ex-tribal Chairman's Niece Killed In Collapse
BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
© Omaha World Herald

Excerpt:

…A member of a prominent family in the Winnebago Indian Tribe died this week in the Minneapolis bridge tragedy.

Julia Blackhawk, 32, the niece of former Winnebago tribal chairman John Blackhawk, died after she fell or was thrown an estimated 55 feet off the collapsing bridge to the ground.

Her body was returned Friday to the reservation, and her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Ho-Chunk Community Center on the Winnebago Indian Reservation in northeastern Nebraska…

"She wasn't born here, but this is home," he said. "This is her reservation. This is where her people are. This is her home.”

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10095254

[sammarroq]

Wachinika,

I had not heard this...and I live here. My heart and my prayers go out to all the families effected by this tragedy; it is truly heart-wrenching. :(

[Mousini78]

We send up our prayers for her family and her safe passage to the other side...it was a true tragedy.