Search Underway for Two Boys From Minnesota Reservation

RED LAKE, Minn., Nov. 24 -- Dozens of trained searchers took to the woods, lakes and air Friday to continue searching for two preschool-age brothers, missing for two days in the remote Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.

Tristan Anthony White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2, disappeared Wednesday from a yard in a heavily wooded area in the town of Red Lake.

"They were just playing outside the last time I seen them, just playing outside," Alicia White, the boys' mother, told reporters.

She appealed for anyone who knows or has seen anything to come forward.

FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe said authorities are trying to determine whether the boys wandered off or whether foul play was involved.

"We don't have any information that would lead us either way," he said.

Family members said they were preparing for the worst because it has been cold and searchers have found nothing since the boys disappeared. Temperatures were expected to drop below freezing overnight, weather forecasters said.

Hundreds of volunteers on foot, on horseback and in four-wheel-drive vehicles have joined in the search.

In March 2005, the Red Lake reservation was in the news when Jeff Weise, 16, shot and killed nine people before killing himself.