Helen Cedar Tree, who was the oldest member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming, died on Saturday. She was 96.

Cedar Tree Cedar Tree was born April 4, 1912, and lived on the Wind River Reservation all of her life. Known as "Grandma Helen," she helped develop Arapaho cultural and language classes.

"Everybody knew who she was," Donovan Antelope, the tribe's director of public relations, told the Associated Press. "It's actually a great loss to the tribe. She was very well respected and very much loved by everybody."

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