The Nation: Burial at Pine Ridge

On a grassy rise overlooking an Indian ranch on South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation last week, a cluster of Oglala Sioux mourners gathered to bury Joseph Bedell Stuntz, 23, an Indian killed two weeks ago in a Shootout with two FBI agents, who also lost their lives. The day before, FBI Director Clarence Kelley attended services in Southern California, where the two agents were buried with honors.

More than 150 federal agents continued their search across the 2.7 million-acre reservation for the 16 Indians believed responsible for the FBI men's deaths. A possible motive for the shootout was found. Some 300 yds....

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