Services to honor Cole Brings Plenty's life will take place this weekend and next week at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School in Eagle Butte, S.D., and the Brings Plenty family cemetery in Red Scaffold, S.D. The 27-year-old actor and Haskell Indian University student was a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Brings Plenty was found dead in the late morning hours of Friday, April 5 near an abandoned vehicle in a wooded area of Johnson Country, Kan. His discovery concluded a five-day-long effort to locate him after he was declared missing in Lawrence, Kan. on Monday, April 1.
Native runners talk about their cultural connections to the sport, and what we all can gain by welcoming in, listening to, and supporting Indigenous runners