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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2002

Flags were flown at half-mast on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota on Wednesday to honor Roger Jourdain, the tribe's longtime chairman who passed away last week.

A crowd reported to be in excess of 500 attended the service. Friends, family and Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) brought praises and spoke of the man who was one of the staunchest defenders of tribal sovereignty.

Jourdain died at age 89.

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Many come to bury, praise former tribal chairman Roger Jourdain (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 3/28)
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