The collapse was so violent it registered on a local seismograph. Ironworkers later said they had argued that the day, when winds were gusting between 25 and 30 mph, was too windy to attempt to lift the roof piece. Wednesday's death shook the Indian community, too, Cook said, noting that Starr had been an example of pride in his Ojibwe identity. Someone is responsible. This can't happen again.
People have to take responsibility for that.
The congregation included the Milwaukee Brewers president and chief executive officer, Wendy Selig-Prieb, and her husband, Laurel Prieb, Brewers vice president, who attended all three funerals. It is not the first time Starr had united his people. As co-chair of the American Indian Movement, in 1971 he led 30 people in occupying the abandoned Coast Guard station on Milwaukee's lakefront, saying they wanted the building for an Indian center. Starr and the others peacefully maintained possession of the station long enough for the Indian Community School to organize. A pipe ceremony at 6 p.m. Sunday began an all-night vigil at which friends and relatives shared their remembrances of the man Cook said he would always picture smiling.