He lived through the transformation of that world by forces that the Lakota could resist but ultimately could not stop.

He was killed on a reservation by Indian Police carrying out a federal agency’s order, and his belongings were taken from his body by people who had no right to them.

More than a century later, a lock of his hair came back to his family.

The science confirmed what the family had always known.

The reckoning continues.

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The Last Years on Standing Rock and What They Meant