In the autumn of 1973, a 34-year-old Lakota woman named Agatha White Buffalo left her home on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota for a journey that was meant to be temporary. A mother of eight, she was traveling to Omaha, Nebraska, for a medical appointment to have a biopsy performed on a spot found on her lung. This trip, however, would be her last, as she never returned to her family and the life she knew. She was a petite woman, remembered by her children for her diligent care, wa
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