Edge, Jerome — Unity and Healing After a School Shooting: A Native American Perspective
The shooting and deaths at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, on October 24, 2014, brought sadness, fear, unity and a special form of healing to the Tulalip and other Native people of the area.
In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Jerome Edge, a Native American of Swinomish and Upper Skagit heritage, hip-hop activist and radio host at KSVR-FM in Mt. Vernon, Washington. When Jerome Edge and I visited from his home in Mt. Vernon, Washington, we discussed the trauma and sadness caused by the shootings and the turn toward healing that then occurred. We also discussed a developing hip-hop focus — a way to instill values of personal and community respect and strength. The song “Rise Up,” which you will hear in the program sung by Shaundiin Zollner, is used by permission.
Jerome Edge and I began our conversation on November 16, 2014, when I asked him to put the shootings in a context of time and place.
The book Jerome Edge recommends is “The Indians of Skagit County,” by Martin J. Sampson.
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