On his 26th birthday, August 2, 2016, a Native American man named Todd Lewis Little Bull was killed in Kyle, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His death came shortly after he had taken to social media to accuse a local spiritual leader, Jerome LeBeau, of conducting fraudulent ceremonies. Little Bull, who was deeply involved in his community's spiritual practices, alleged that he had been asked to participate in creating artificial effects, such as shaking gourds and turning on
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