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Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
The Memorial site was designed with the Native American traditions in mind. The Memorial is encompassed by the Circle of Life. The Circle is broken in one location to allow for entrance and departure. There is sage planted in all four directions next to the Memorial to sanctify the site. The four planter areas are filled with white, yellow, black and red rocks and foliage. This indicates the nationalities of the world and indicates that we are all brothers/sisters in the world. The formation area is done in earth-tone brown indicating mother earth. The foliage next to the formation area also has been configured in a manner as it relates to the Native American beliefs and traditions. Upon completion of these ceremonies this site will remain sacred ground for all Indian nations.
Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial at the FLETC-Artesia, New Mexico
Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Who Have Died in the Line of Duty
| Name | Date of Death |
Agency |
|---|---|---|
| Chin-Chi-Kee | 01-10-1852 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Benjamin F. Jones | 09-20-1876 | Choctaw Nation |
| Culpepper Cobert | 12-07-1878 | Chickasaw Nation |
| John Green | 12-25-1878 | Cherokee Nation |
| John R. Boston | 07-20-1881 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Joe Barnett | 07-30-1882 | Creek Nation |
| Sam Scott | 07-30-1882 | Creek Nation |
| Henry McGill | 11-03-1883 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Sam Cudgo | 03-29-1885 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Thomas Cloud | 03-31-1885 | Seminole Nation |
| Frank West | 12-17-1886 | Cherokee Nation |
| Sam Six Killer | 12-24-1886 | Union Agency Muskogee |
| Williams Will Fields | 12-24-1887 | Creek Nation |
| Jack Candy | 04-10-1886 | Cherokee Nation |
| Med Hair | 01-28-1888 | Cherokee Nation |
| John Armstrong | 12-15-1890 | Standing Rock |
| Paul Akicitah | 12-15-1890 | Standing Rock |
| Henry Bullhead | 12-15-1890 | Standing Rock |
| David Hawkman | 12-15-1890 | Standing Rock |
| James Little Eagle | 12-15-1890 | Standing Rock |
| Charles Shave Head | 12-15-1890 | Standing Rock |
| Armstead Homer | 05-16-1891 | Choctaw Nation |
| Sequoyah Houstan | 06-17-1894 | Cherokee Nation |
| Issac Walkingstick | 07-29-1894 | Cherokee Nation |
| Robert Marshal | 09-10-1894 | Cherokee Nation |
| Joe Big Knife | 10-22-1895 | Union Agency Muskogee |
| Charles Proctor | 08-20-1896 | Cherokee Nation |
| Jeff Surratt | 12-05-1900 | Choctaw Nation |
| Cub Burney | 07-17-1901 | Choctaw Nation |
| W. M. Russell | 12-24-1904 | Choctaw Nation |
| Ben Collins | 08-01-1906 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Robert Leo Bowman | 09-19-1912 | Union Agency Muskogee |
| Henry Oats | 02-06-1925 | Osage Nation |
| Dennis Titla, Sr. | 04-12-1960 | San Carlos |
| Nathan Norman Bear | 07-14-1960 | Fort Berthold |
| Allen L. St. Clair | 10-03-1965 | Wind River Agency |
| Adolph Frederick Bush | 02-05-1967 | Uintah and Ouray |
| Roy Richard Bradshaw | 08-27-1973 | Colville |
| Phillip N. Lopez | 04-01-1975 | Ute Mountain |
| Loren B. Whitehat | 05-10-1979 | Navajo Nation |
| Milton Paul Antone | 04-14-1983 | Ak-Chin |
| John K. Healy | 03-14-1986 | Ute Mountain |
| Louis A. Millard | 08-27-1986 | Colville |
| Roy Lee Stanley | 12-05-1987 | Navajo Nation |
| Andy Begay | 12-05-1987 | Navajo Nation |
| Burton Begay | 11-17-1975 | Navajo Nation |
| LeRoy A. Pine, Jr. | 07-23-1988 | Crow Agency |
| Dean Martin James | 09-17-1988 | Hopi Agency |
| Terry L. Spotted Wolf, Sr. | 09-19-1988 | Northern Cheyenne |
| Delford H. Kay | 11-22-1990 | Ute Mountain |
| Carl N. Wilson | 01-03-1991 | Seminole of Florida |
| Donald Dante Thornbury | 10-26-1991 | Miccosukee |
| Ishkoten Koteen | 05-08-1961 | Jicarilla |
| Milburn Williamson | 12-05-1976 | Choctaw Agency |
| Jake James McCullough | 12-05-1981 | Hannahville Tribal P.D. |
| Roderick Henry | 09-14-1988 | Columbia River Fisheries |
| Kevin Tilman Lewis | 01-17-1993 | Pima Agency |
| Jeffrey S. Skenandore | 03-30-1993 | Oneida Nation |
| George Comes at Night | 04-15-1962 | Blackfeet Agency |
| Isaac Benjamin Martinez | 04-10-1994 | San Ildefonso Pueblo |
| Ronald A. Williams | 06-26-1975 | FBI, Pine Ridge |
| Jack R. Coler | 06-26-1975 | FBI, Pine Ridge |
| Louis Abeita | 01-12-1921 | Isleta Pueblo |
| Glenn R. Miles | 02-21-1986 | U.S. Customs, Tohono O'Odham |
| Michael G. Miller | 08-28-1995 | BIA, Branch of Drug Enforcement |
| Ronald Eugene Kelley | 11-20-1995 | Ak-Chin Police Department |
| Hoskie Allen Gene, Jr. | 01-06-1996 | Navajo Nation |
| Charles W. Lane | 09-02-1996 | Navajo County Sheriffs Office |
| Samuel E. Redhouse | 02-17-1997 | Navajo Nation |
| David Zeigler | 07-03-1992 | Arizona Department of Public Safety |
| William Bearshield | 07-26-1976 | Rosebud Tribal Police Department |
| Michael Delgado | 04-09-1998 | Tohono O’Odham Nation PD |
| Jack Spencer | 09-05-1998 | BIA, Western Nevada Agency |
| Defford Thomas Oyebi | 12-20-1998 | Otoe-Missouria Tribal PD |
| Esther Todacheene | 06-08-1998 | Navajo Nation DPS |
| Winsonfred A. Filfred | 04-02-1999 | Navajo Nation DPS |
| Tenny Gatewood, Jr. | 12-09-1999 | White River Tribal PD |
| Kelmar One Feather | 07-01-2000 | Oglala Lakota Nation |
| Creighton T. Spencer | 03-25-2001 | BIA, Eastern Nevada Agency |
| Shelby D. Blackfox | 11-06-2001 | Cherokee Nation Marshall Service |
| John Redhorse | 11-14-1894 | Pine Ridge Reservation |
| Lloyd Aragon | 08-01-2001 | New Mexico State Police |
| Glenn HollowHorn | 04-05-1980 | Oglala Lakota Nation |
| Robert Taylor | 05-27-2002 | Chippewa Cree Law Enforcement |
| Adam Hawk | 02-28-1910 | Quinault Tribal Police Department |
| John “Hoh” Williams | 02-28-1910 | Quinault Tribal Police Department |
| Nicholas D. Greenig | 03-14-2006 | USBP Border Patrol |
| Adam Joseph Menuez |
07-04-2007 | Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribal PD |
| Frank Horn Cloud |
03-11-1910 |
Pine Ridge Agency |
| A.H. Scott |
06-22-1925 | Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| Joshua Yazzie |
06-02-2010 | Uintah and Ouray Tribe |
| Anthony Michael Wallace |
08-28-2010 | Hoonah Village Police |
| Matthew Dean Tokuoka |
08-28-2010 | Hoonah Village Police |
| George Debates |
12-19-2004 | U.S. Border Patrol |
| Michael Vincent Gallagher
|
09-02-2010 | U.S. Border Patrol |
| Merrill Allen Bruguier |
10-09-2010 | Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe |
| William Louis
Pappan |
12-04-1935 |
U.S. Department of Treasury, Alcohol Tax Unit |
| Aaron Daniel Peru |
02-13-2011 |
San Carlos Tribal Police |
| Darrell Cervandez Curley |
06-25-2011 | Navajo Police Department |
