{"id":14066,"date":"2021-07-16T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:37:49","slug":"native-sun-news-today-editorial-accountability-for-murders-of-native-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/16\/native-sun-news-today-editorial-accountability-for-murders-of-native-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today Editorial: Accountability for murders of Native people"},"content":{"rendered":" <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/16\/native-sun-news-today-editorial-accountability-for-murders-of-native-people\/rapidcreek\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-attachment-id=\"14068\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/16\/native-sun-news-today-editorial-accountability-for-murders-of-native-people\/rapidcreek\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/16\/rapidcreek-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS Rebel T6i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1493637655&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rapid Creek in Rapid City, South Dakota\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Rapid Creek in Rapid City, South Dakota. Photo: &lt;a href=https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rapid_Creek_(South_Dakota).JPG&gt;Jeffrey Beall&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/16\/rapidcreek-1024x683.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/16\/rapidcreek-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rapid Creek in Rapid City, South Dakota\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-14068\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Rapid Creek in Rapid City, South Dakota. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rapid_Creek_(South_Dakota).JPG>Jeffrey Beall<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">The unsolved murders of Native men at Rapid City Creek<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Friday, July 16, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Native Sun News Editorial Board<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe murders of three Navajo men more than 30 years ago still generates strong sentiments among residents of Farmington, New Mexico.<P><\/P>\r\nDodge Benally, 34, John Earl Harvey, 39, and David Ignacio, 52, were brutally beaten and left in the hills. Authorities said the men were intentionally tortured.<P><\/P>\r\nThree teenage white boys were charged with murdering the men. They were accused of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_rolling\">rolling<\/a>&#8221; Indians, a reportedly common practice in the Four Corners. Some non-Indians deny the practice exists.<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=map-responsive>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.stanford.edu\/iframe?url=https:\/\/purl.stanford.edu\/dc698cm1043\" title=\"Image viewer\" height=\"600\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=map-responsive>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.stanford.edu\/iframe?url=https:\/\/purl.stanford.edu\/wt875hh7361\" title=\"Image viewer\"   height=\"600\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=map-responsive>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.stanford.edu\/iframe?url=https:\/\/purl.stanford.edu\/sd697qt6940\" title=\"Image viewer\"  height=\"600\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThroughout the ordeal, <a href=\"https:\/\/exhibits.stanford.edu\/fitch\/browse\/new-mexico-navajo-protest-1974\">Navajos staged peaceful protests<\/a> in Farmington. But when the boys were sent to a reform school instead of being treated as adults, tensions erupted when tribal members sought to hold a protest march the next day but were denied a permit. <P><\/P>\r\nThis always reminds us that there have been more than 11 unexplained and unsolved murders right here in Rapid City since 1998. Most of the men killed were Native Americans.\r\n<P><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nThere was Ben Long Wolf, age 36, George Hatton, age 56, Allen Hough, age 42, Royce Yellow Hawk, age 26, Randell Two Crow, age 48, Lauren Two Bulls, age 33, Dirk Bartling, age 44, Arthur Chamberlain, age 45, Timothy Bull Bear Sr., age 47, Lonnie Isham, age 43, and Wilbur G. Johnson, age 41 and there have been a couple of more who are not on this list.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nWe need to organize and find out why none of these murders have been solved. Could it be that these men were killed by white teenage boys just like the murders in New Mexico? \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nIf so the killers have probably grown up, gone to college, and got on with their lives. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/the-unsolved-murders-of-native-men-at-rapid-city-creek\/\">The unsolved murders of Native men at Rapid City Creek<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativesunnews.today<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nsweekly\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nsweekly<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/p>  \r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<HR><EM>Contact the Editorial Board of Native Sun News Today at editor@nativesunnews.today<\/em><HR>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>\r\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/16\/navajoelderfarmingtonnewmexico1974-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"&#039;Farmington is on Indian Land&#039;\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We need to organize and find out why none of these murders have been solved.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[960,101,511,2,167,47,61,147,98,6],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-border-towns","tag-crime","tag-law-enforcement","tag-native-sun-news-today","tag-new-mexico","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-rapid-city","tag-south-dakota","tag-urban-indians","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/16\/navajoelderfarmingtonnewmexico1974-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-3ES","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}