More than 300 people attended funeral services on Tuesday for Richard D. Yellow Bird Steele Sr. and his granddaughter, Amber Lee Steele.
Steele, 56, and his granddaughter were killed in a car accident on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Amber was 15.
Steele was serving as vice-chairman of the tribe's Wounded Knee District. Family and friends remembered him as a man with a strong work ethic. Amber had relatives from the Hopi Tribe of Arizona.
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Reservation grieves for girl, grandfather
(The Rapid City Journal 5/26)
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Tribe mourns loss of girl and her grandfather
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
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