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Indigenous tribe sues US over lack of Pine Ridge law enforcement

The Pine Ridge Reservation in the US sits on 14,000 square kilometres of land, roughly the size of the state of Connecticut [File: Kristi Eaton/AP Photo]

Holly Wilson had just left to pick up soda for a steak dinner with her nine grandchildren last May, when a barrage of bullets was fired into her home on the largest Native American reservation in South Dakota, part of the midwestern United States.

Her six-year-old grandson, Logan Warrior Goings, jumped from the family’s loveseat and raced across the room to his grandfather — and was shot in the head. It took at least 15 minutes for a single tribal law enforcement officer to arrive. But by then, the drive-by shooters were gone, and Logan, a “kind and gentle” boy who loved Xbox and his Siamese cat Simon, was dead.

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