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The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s Missing Persons page indicates seven Native American teenagers have gone missing this summer in Fremont County.

The most recent case was reported Aug. 24 – the day Leland Fightingbear, 16, was last seen on the Wind River Reservation.

Fightingbear is 5 feet, 11 inches tall, weighs 177 pounds, and has brown eyes, brown hair, braces, and a memorial tattoo on his left leg.
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Anyone with information about Fightingbear is asked to contact the Bureau of Indian Affairs at 332-3112 or DCI at 777-7181.

Rhylee Lynn Brown, 15, was last seen in Riverton on Aug. 22.

She is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has brown eyes and shoulder-length straight brown hair.

Anyone with information about Brown should contact DCI or the Riverton Police Department at 856-4891.

Shawn-Dean Shadowwolf Brown, 17, was reported missing Aug. 22, having last been seen on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
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He is 6 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs 190 pounds, and has brown eyes, brown hair, and one pierced ear.

Anyone with information about him should call the BIA or DCI.

Eagle Eyez Anthony Coulston, 15, was last seen on the Wind River Indian Reservation on Aug. 11.

He is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds, and has brown eyes and black hair.

Anyone with information about Coulston should call the BIA or DCI.

Wyoma Ghostbear, 16, was last seen in Fremont County on Aug. 11.

She is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs 154 pounds, and has brown eyes and brown hear.

Anyone with information about Ghostbear is asked to call the DCI or the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office at 332-5611.

Eternity Yellowfox, 14, was last seen in Fremont County on Aug. 2.

She is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weigh 120 pounds, and has brown eyes and brown hair.

Anyone with information about Yellowfox should call DCI or the FCSO.

Daniel Kenneth Manzanares, 17, was last seen in Riverton on July 22.

He is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has brown eyes and black hair.

Anyone with information about Manzanares should call the RPD or DCI.

What’s the ol Rez tribal council have to say??? I remember years ago the Oregonian did a piece on the Warm Springs Indian reservation. It’s like how you described the Wind River rez. Anyhow it was several parts, the jist of it was why a community 15 miles from Madras Oregon had such a high Suicide rate, high unemployment, high rape cases, incest cases etc, compared to Madras. Oh I know why madras full of white folks who have hope, the rez offers none of that. Well the tribal council was all up in arms how dare they write articles so damaging to the reservation. They wanted the articles stopped and pretend it’s Shangri-La on the reservation. So imagine the Wind River crew same way..

I drove through a big rez in South Dakota one January day. We don't have any big reservations like that down here in Dixie, Good God I never had seen anything like it. Abandoned trailers and cars everywhere, six inches of snow piled up here and there, covered with dirt. A few drunk Indians sprawled out on front porches. A few raggedy children running around. What a depressing place to be.

I have spent a lot of time in black housing projects in Georgia on ambulance calls, but a Georgia housing project looks like Disneyland compared to the South Dakota rez.

Sounds like the Pine Ridge Rez. It’s a Schitthole.

Used to be a ton of Prairie Dogs there to shoot, if you knew the right folks. Haven’t been back through there in 20 years or more.

My buddy lived in South Dakota. On our tour of the rez we stopped to look at an Indian graveyard. It was fascinating to see all the Indian names on the graves, there on the snowy, wind blown prairie. Not many trees. Lots of grave markers of Indians dying young, in their teens and twenties.

In a few minutes at the graveyard, buddy said we better get up and go. He said a car load of young Indians might drive up, and not appreciate our presence there. We left.

All of the rezs are chitholes in sd.

Pine Ridge? I first drove through it in 2011. It was appalling. I went home and told folks that Campti Louisiana was the garden of Eden by comparison. You would have to have been to Campti to understand how bad Campti is.

My father took the family off a reservation when I was very small. He never looked back.
The ones I come in contact the most, in the west, are seething pits of meth and despair sprinkled in with a few native “officials” who have cheated the government and the people to live big.

Osky

As are most of the ones in NM.

It might have been Pine Ridge. I just looked it up on the map and I see it is right on the Nebraska border. I remember something about they couldn't buy booze on the rez, but could buy it in Nebraska. The Indians would make the short drive and fill up the car trunk with cases of Nebraska beer.

From day one there were places that sold liquor within spitting distance of the Rez borders where natives could buy.

Osky

That’s Pine Ridge. The other is the Rose Bud. Both border Nebraska. And yes Whiteclay, a town of ~10 residents sold 3.5 million cans of beer per year.

If you can’t be the CEO of a big pharmaceutical company or a senator that has the ability to engage in insider trading like Nancy Piglosi then being an Indian chief is the next best thing. Corruption and grift are as essential to the modern Indian chief as being brave was to the old. The enormous sums of cash money that the tribes with casinos are awash in is sickening. There’s virtually ZERO oversight from their people and NONE from the federal government since the tribes are their own sovereign country.

White Clay sold 4.9million cans of beer in 2010. Not bad for a population of 14.

For some maybe most you are correct. Remember there are plenty of reservations that have no serious casino revenue. Location and external traffic flow won’t let it happen.
There still are however great sums of money given by the government to these smaller tribes/reservations. These monies are squandered and stolen by the chiefs and tribal officials you speak of.
Indians never should have been given money, tools and livestock and the land to use them on.

Osky

MHA tribe has a 90 ft yacht in the Big lake. Oil…

February of ‘84 I delivered a pickup truck load of blankets and winter clothing to Pine Ridge, part of materials collected by churches in Upstate NY.

I was looking at Grad Schools at the time, and my next destination was Fort Collins CO but there was a blizzard in the way, so I stayed over a few nights with some Traditionalists. I learned one of those guys died a few years later, I hope the rest are doing good.

you should check out Yakama or Blackfoot or Crow Rez s then

Our church has done some mission trips to Indian reservations over the years. Lots of strange circumstances on those places.

I grew up on the reservation.. I been to toppenish, white swan, crow agency, white mtn Apache, Navajo reservation, warm springs Indian reservation, tohono o’ odham reservation. Oh forgot San Carlos