The Memorial site was designed with the Native American traditions in mind.
The Memorial is encompassed by the Circle of Life. The Circle is broken in one location to allow for entrance and departure. There is sage planted in all four directions next to the Memorial to sanctify the site. The four planter areas are filled with white, yellow, black and red rocks and foliage. This indicates the nationalities of the world and indicates that we are all brothers/sisters in the world.
The formation area is done in earth-tone brown indicating mother earth. The foliage next to the formation area also has been configured in a manner as it relates to the Native American beliefs and traditions.
Upon completion of these ceremonies this site will remain sacred ground for all Indian nations.
Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Who Have Died in the Line of Duty
Name |
End of Watch |
Agency |
|---|---|---|
| Chin-Chi-Kee 01/10/1852 | 01/10/1852 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Benjamin F. Jones | 09/20/1876 | Choctaw Nation |
| Culpepper Cobert | 12/07/1878 | Chickasaw Nation |
| John Green | 12/25/1878 | Cherokee Nation |
| John R. Boston | 07/20/1881 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Sam Scott | 07/30/1882 | Creek Nation |
| Joe Barnett | 07/30/1882 | Creek Nation |
| Henry McGill | 11/03/1883 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Sam Cudgo | 03/29/1885 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Thomas Cloud | 03/31/1885 | Seminole Nation |
| Jack Candy | 04/10/1886 | Cherokee Nation |
| Frank West | 12/17/1886 | Cherokee Nation |
| Sam Six Killer | 12/24/1886 | Union Agency Muskogee |
| Williams Will Fields | 12/24/1887 | Creek Nation |
| Med Hair | 01/28/1888 | Cherokee Nation |
| Charles Shave Head | 12/15/1890 | Standing Rock |
| David Hawkman | 12/15/1890 | Standing Rock |
| Henry Bullhead | 12/15/1890 | Standing Rock |
| James Little Eagle | 12/15/1890 | Standing Rock |
| John Armstrong | 12/15/1890 | Standing Rock |
| Paul Akicitah | 12/15/1890 | Standing Rock |
| Armstead Homer | 05/16/1891 | Choctaw Nation |
| Sequoyah Houstan | 06/17/1894 | Cherokee Nation |
| Issac Walkingstick | 07/29/1894 | Cherokee Nation |
| Robert Marshal | 09/10/1894 | Cherokee Nation |
| John Redhorse | 11/14/1894 | Pine Ridge Reservation |
| Joe Big Knife | 10/22/1895 | Union Agency Muskogee |
| Charles Proctor | 08/20/1896 | Cherokee Nation |
| Jeff Surratt | 12/5/1900 | Choctaw Nation |
| Cub Burney | 7/17/1901 | Choctaw Nation |
| W. M. Russell | 12/24/1904 | Choctaw Nation |
| Ben Collins | 8/1/1906 | Chickasaw Nation |
| Adam Hawk | 2/28/1910 | Quinault Tribal Police Department |
| John “Hoh” Williams | 2/28/1910 | Quinault Tribal Police Department |
| Frank Horn Cloud | 3/11/1910 | Pine Ridge Reservation |
| Robert Leo Bowman | 9/19/1912 | Union Agency Muskogee |
| Louis Abeita | 1/12/1921 | Isleta Pueblo |
| Henry Oats | 2/6/1925 | Osage Nation |
| A.H. Scott | 6/22/1925 | BIA, Department of the Interior |
| William L. Pappan | 12/4/1935 | Bureau of A.T.F. |
| Hoska “Hoskie” Thompson | 10/21/1949 | Navajo Nation Police Department |
| Nash P. Garcia | 4/11/1952 | New Mexico State Police |
| Dennis Titla, Sr. | 4/12/1960 | San Carlos |
| Nathan Norman Bear | 7/14/1960 | Fort Berthold |
| Gordon C. James | 8/30/1960 | Navajo Nation Police Department |
| Ishkoten Koteen | 5/8/1961 | Jicarilla |
| George Comes at Night | 4/15/1962 | Blackfeet Agency |
| Allen L. St. Clair | 10/3/1965 | Wind River Agency |
| Adolph Frederick Bush | 2/5/1967 | Uintah and Ouray |
| Roy Richard Bradshaw | 8/27/1973 | Colville Tribal PD |
| Phillip N. Lopez | 4/1/1975 | Ute Mountain |
| Ronald A. Williams | 6/26/1975 | FBI, Pine Ridge |
| Jack Coler | 6/26/1975 | FBI, Pine Ridge |
| Burton Begay | 11/17/1975 | Navajo Nation |
| William Bearshield | 7/26/1976 | Rosebud Tribal Police Department |
| Milburn Williamson | 12/5/1976 | Choctaw Agency |
| Loren B. Whitehat | 5/10/1979 | Navajo Nation |
| Glenn Hollow Horn | 4/5/1980 | Oglala Lakota Nation |
| Nelson Onepennee | 4/11/1980 | Yakama Nation Police Department |
| Jake James McCullough | 12/5/1981 | Hannahville Tribal PD |
| Milton Paul Antone | 4/14/1983 | Ak-Chin |
| Glenn R. Miles, Jr. | 2/21/1986 | U.S. Customs, Tohono O’odham |
| John K. Healy | 3/14/1986 | Ute Mountain |
| Louis A. Millard | 8/27/1986 | Colville Tribal PD |
| Robert E. Zimin | 10/22/1986 | Alaska State Troopers |
| Roy Lee Stanley | 12/5/1987 | Navajo Nation |
| Andy Begay | 12/5/1987 | Navajo Nation |
| LeRoy A. Pine, Jr. | 7/23/1988 | Crow Agency |
| Roderick Henry | 9/14/1988 | Columbia River Fisheries |
| Dean Martin James | 9/17/1988 | Hopi Agency |
| Terry L. Spotted Wolf, Sr. | 9/19/1988 | Northern Cheyenne |
| Delfort H. Kay | 11/22/1990 | Ute Mountain |
| Carl N. Wilson | 1/3/1991 | Seminole of Florida |
| Donald Dante Thornbury | 10/26/1991 | Miccosukee |
| David Zesiger | 7/3/1992 | Arizona Dept. of Public Safety |
| Kevin Tilman Lewis | 1/17/1993 | Pima Agency |
| Jeffrey S. Skenandore | 3/30/1993 | Oneida Nation |
| Issac Benjamin Martinez | 4/10/1994 | San Ildefonso Pueblo |
| Michael G. Miller | 8/28/1995 | BIA, Branch of Drug Enforcement |
| Ronald Eugene Kelley | 11/20/1995 | Ak-Chin Police Department |
| Hoskie Allen Gene, Jr. | 1/6/1996 | Navajo Nation |
| Charles W. Lane | 9/2/1996 | Navajo County Sheriff’s Office |
| Samuel E. Redhouse | 2/17/1997 | Navajo Nation |
| Michael Delgado | 4/9/1998 | Tohono O’odham Nation PD |
| Esther Todacheene | 6/8/1998 | Navajo Nation DPS |
| Jack Spencer | 9/5/1998 | BIA, Western Nevada Agency |
| Defford Thomas Oyebi | 12/20/1998 | Otoe-Missouria Tribal PD |
| Winsonfred A. Filfred | 4/2/1999 | Navajo Nation DPS |
| Tenny Gatewood, Jr. | 12/9/1999 | Whiteriver Tribal PD |
| Kelmar One Feather | 7/1/2000 | Oglala Lakota Nation |
| Creighton T. Spencer | 3/25/2001 | BIA, Eastern Nevada Agency |
| Lloyd Aragon | 8/1/2001 | New Mexico State Police |
| Shelby D. Blackfox | 11/6/2001 | Cherokee Nation Marshall Service |
| Robert Taylor | 5/27/2002 | Chippewa Cree Law Enforcement |
| Colin Clark, Jr. | 3/21/2004 | BIA, Office of Justice Services |
| George Debates | 12/19/2004 | U.S. Border Patrol |
| Nicholas D. Greenig | 3/14/2006 | U.S. Border Patrol |
| Adam Joseph Menuez | 7/4/2007 | Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribal PD |
| Robert Patrick Flickinger | 3/7/2008 | Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse |
| Joshua Yazzie | 6/7/2010 | Uintah and Ouray Tribal PD |
| Christopher L. Dewey | 8/9/2010 | Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Office |
| Anthony Wallace | 8/28/2010 | Hoonah Village PD |
| Matthew Tokuoka | 8/28/2010 | Hoonah Village PD |
| Michael Gallagher | 9/2/2010 | U.S. Border Patrol |
| Merrill Bruguier | 10/9/2010 | Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal PD |
| Aaron D. Peru | 2/13/2011 | San Carlos Apache Tribe |
| Darrell C. Curley | 6/25/2011 | Navajo Nation PD |
| Frederick A. Riggenback | 1/26/2013 | Chitimacha Tribal Police Dept. |
| Thomas Olaf Madole | 3/19/2013 | Village Pubic Safety Officer |
| Robert W. Baron | 12/6/2013 | Sandoval County Sheriff’s Dept. |
| Patrick S. Johnson | 5/1/2014 | Alaska State Troopers |
| Gabriel Rich | 5/1/2014 | Alaska State Troopers |
| Jair A. Cabrera | 5/24/2014 | Salt River Police Department |
| Alex K. Yazzie | 3/19/2015 | Navajo Nation Police Department |
| Anthony E. Lossiah | 10/6/2015 | Cherokee Indian Police Department |
| Leander Frank | 8/30/2016 | Navajo Nation Police Department |
| Nathan B. Graves | 1/24/2017 | Sac & Fox Nation Capitol Police |
| Uga’Shon Curtis W. Blackbird | 3/26/2017 | Omaha Nation Law Enforcement |
| Houston Largo | 4/12/2017 | Navajo Nation Police Department |
| Clayton Joel Townsend | 1/8/2019 | Salt River Police Department |
| Steven G. Greco | 2/16/2019 | Miccosuke Tribal Police |
| Shannon Lee Barron | 7/7/2019 | Red Lake Public Safety |