Chief's death underlines problems of alcohol on Manitoba reserve
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An alcohol-fuelled family fight in a remote northern Manitoba reserve ended in the stabbing death of the community's young chief.
Noah David Redhead, 28, died in a Thompson, Man. hospital hours after being fatally wounded on the 800-member Shamattawa reserve, about 750 kilometres north of Winnipeg. His wife, 23-year-old Jessie Redhead, has been charged with second-degree murder.
"There are a lot of sad people walking around right now. They have lost their chief," said Wanda Helman, chief nurse at the nursing station on the supposedly dry reserve.
