NE Gordon, Natv/Hisp Fem, 40-60, no NamUs, under concrete bridge near Antelope Creek, Oct'70

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This woman was mentioned in several articles about a DNA collection event for family of missing native Americans happening in South Dakota later this week, but she isn't listed in NamUs.

"MMIP advocates have identified four of the 273 unidentified Indigenous individuals believed to be Oceti Sakowin — Lakota, Dakota and Nakota — specifically from South Dakota.
Those individuals are an adult man found on Medicine Mountain outside of Rapid City in 1978, a young woman found in southcentral rural Colorado in 1999 believed to be Sicangu Lakota, a man using the nickname “Albert Crazy Buffalo” who died in 1992 in Scranton, Pennsylvania also believed to be Sicangu Lakota and an adult woman found in Gordon, Nebraska in 1970 believed to be Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge and Mexican."

DNA drive aims to help bring the remains of 273 unidentified Indigenous people home • South Dakota Searchlight

RAPID CITY, South Dakota – There are 273 unidentified deceased Indigenous peoples across the country. A DNA drive aims to identify them.

southdakotasearchlight.com

South Dakota MMIP Office hosting DNA drive to help bring 273 unidentified Indigenous people home - ICT

The Bureau of Indian Affairs and South Dakota Attorney General are partnering to bring free DNA testing services to victims’ families

ictnews.org

 

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Discovery Location: Two miles east of Gordon, Sheridan County, Nebraska

Discovery Date: October 3, 1970

Age Range: 40-60

Race: Originally believed to be full native American, genetic testing has shown she is part Oglala Lakota and part Mexican with ties to Pine Ridge, SD

Height/weight: about 5' and 120 pounds

Characteristics: Lightly graying black hair, missing some teeth

Circumstances: Found under cement bridge near Antelope Creek

Clothing: Fragments were recovered but were too worn and fragile to yield any clues

Disposition: Buried in marked grave at Gordon Cemetery in Gordon, NE

FindAGrave memorials (she has two which are duplicates): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166950370/unknown-woman and https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71364201/unknown-unknown#

 

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"In January [2024], the woman’s body was exhumed from her unnamed grave in the Gordon Cemetery by the BIA and then sent off for DNA testing.
DNA testing revealed the woman had both Mexican and Native American ancestry, particularly from the Oglala, S.D., area, Takes War Bonnett said. While her identity and family is still unknown, the search was narrowed significantly."
The woman’s cause of death has not been identified, Takes War Bonnett said."

Search for Native woman’s identity reignites - ICT

Fifty-four years after her body was found, Oglala Lakota officials are seeking to identify a woman whose body was found under a bridge in 1970

ictnews.org

 

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According to this article, "On October 7th, 1970, The Gordon Journal published an article speaking of how this unknown woman was discovered. They included a picture of the state that they found her body in."

Who Is This Woman In Gordon Cemetery? - Lakota Times

GORDON, NE - After four decades, the remains of a Native woman is still buried underneath a stone etched with “Unknown” in the Gordon, Neb cemetery with no name and no family to claim her. On October 7th, 1970, The Gordon Journal published an article speaking of how this unknown woman was...

www.lakotatimes.com

@PatLaurel could you check for this and any other newspapers about her when you have the time? Thank you in advance.

 

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According to this article, "On October 7th, 1970, The Gordon Journal published an article speaking of how this unknown woman was discovered. They included a picture of the state that they found her body in."

Who Is This Woman In Gordon Cemetery? - Lakota Times

GORDON, NE - After four decades, the remains of a Native woman is still buried underneath a stone etched with “Unknown” in the Gordon, Neb cemetery with no name and no family to claim her. On October 7th, 1970, The Gordon Journal published an article speaking of how this unknown woman was...

www.lakotatimes.com

@PatLaurel could you check for this and any other newspapers about her when you have the time? Thank you in advance.

Here's a clip someone made. Postmortem warning. Not graphic, but obviously deceased.

Article clipped from The Gordon Journal

Clipping found in The Gordon Journal published in Gordon, Nebraska on 10/7/1970.

www.newspapers.com