A Case Study of the Red Lake, Minnesota, School Shooting

Intercultural Learning in the Renewal Process

Bibliographic Data

ID12918429
AuthorsRobert S Littlefield (0000-0003-3451-4563, North Dakota State University, corresponding author), Jennifer Reierson (North Dakota State University), Kimberly Cowden (North Dakota State University), Shelly Stowman (North Dakota State University), Cheryl Long Feather (United Tribes Technical College)
Year2009
Volume2
Issue3
Pages361-383
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1753-9137.2009.01043.x
OpenAlexW1968173999
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited20

As organizations and communities recover from a crisis, they balance and accommodate competing value systems, complicating the process of healing and renewal. Using the Red Lake, MN public school shootings in 2005 as a focus for this case study, 246 media articles—drawn from Minnesota Public Radio, Minneapolis Tribune, New York Times, and USA Today—revealed the role of cultural variables in the renewal process. While an etic assessment of the community response to the tragedy provided evidence of renewal, particularly related to the reopening of the high school, an emic examination revealed underlying cultural tensions stemming from pre-existing conditions between the dominant White and Native American cultures that demonstrated the complexity of the renewal process

Emic and etic · Media studies · Political science · Process (computing · Sociology · Value (mathematics · White (mutation · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Disaster Management and Resilience · History · Public Relations and Crisis Communication

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