Jacie Estes
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I had the honor and privilege to be friends with an Elder from this family, she is now passed. I am grateful to Creator, Wakan Tanka, that Albert Afraid of Hawk is now home on sacred ground. Pilamaya.
It has taken 112 years, but Albert Afraid of Hawk is home.
Canned corn sickened the 20-year-old Oglala Lakota man while he traveled the east coast with the legendary Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. He died June 29, 1900, at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody arranged and paid for his burial three days later, near the pond at Wooster Cemetery in Danbury.
It has been a long wait and an epic journey, but Afraid of Hawk receives his proper Native burial today.
"Its a historical event. It is really sacred to my family and the family of Pine Ridge," his great-niece, Marlis Afraid of Hawk, 54, of Dupree, said.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/la...cle_8291b9cb-7609-5353-a2bf-80eb91a5a522.html
It has taken 112 years, but Albert Afraid of Hawk is home.
Canned corn sickened the 20-year-old Oglala Lakota man while he traveled the east coast with the legendary Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. He died June 29, 1900, at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody arranged and paid for his burial three days later, near the pond at Wooster Cemetery in Danbury.
It has been a long wait and an epic journey, but Afraid of Hawk receives his proper Native burial today.
"Its a historical event. It is really sacred to my family and the family of Pine Ridge," his great-niece, Marlis Afraid of Hawk, 54, of Dupree, said.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/la...cle_8291b9cb-7609-5353-a2bf-80eb91a5a522.html