How Did Allison Highwolf Die? Distrust Fuels a Mystery in Indian Country.
When a Northern Cheyenne family questioned their daughter’s untimely death, official indifference deepened their pain and their suspicions.
Aiyanna Highwolf, one of Allison Highwolf’s daughters, tending to her mother’s grave on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana.Credit.Tailyr Irvine for The New York Times
July 11, 2021Updated 11:54 a.m. ET
NORTHERN CHEYENNE RESERVATION, Mont. The knock on the door came at 3 a.m., when Pauline Highwolf opened it to see a police officer from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. “Don’t tell me,” she said, backing away.