Joshua Zaffos

Custer Was Sioux’d, Now Obama Settles

Did I ever tell you about the time I tasted fresh buffalo blood on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation? That was just one part of my reporting on Oglala Sioux families trying to reconnect with traditional practices through greater land control.

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Homecoming

Each November, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe members remember the unprovoked slaughter of hundreds of Indians in 1864, known as the Sand Creek Massacre. In 2005, members of the Northern Cheyenne tribe invited me to tag along during a journey that began in Montana to return ancestors' remains to the massacre site in southern Colorado. My feature appeared in the Bullhorn in November 2005.

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