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= Dr. Arne Vainio =

Arne Vainio was born in 1959 in Chisholm, Minnesota. He grew up in a poor family with six siblings. His mother was full-blooded Ojibwe and his father was Finnish. His father committed suicide when he was only four years old. Then the next year his mother began to drink heavily and married an alcoholic man who made 53 dollars a week. They divorced after 11 years. Arnie Vainio’s family moved from Alango to Bear River when he was 10 years old.