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Lakota leader Tom Poor Bear dies after battle with COVID-19


Lakota leader Tom Poor Bear dies after battle with COVID-19
‘He never stopped fighting’
Indianz.Com
The former vice president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and a longtime Native rights activist died Sunday from complications due to the coronavirus.
Tom Poor Bear, 66, died at the North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colorado.
“I still can’t believe Tom has left us,” said Bryan Brewer, who served as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe with Poor Bear as his vice president. “It’s a bad day for the tribe and his family.”
Poor Bear joined the American Indian Movement not long after they came to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1972. He ran away from boarding school to jump in a car and ride to Washington, D.C., where AIM took over a Bureau of Indian Affairs building to protest the federal agency’s failure to fulfill its trust responsibilities to Native people. ....

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