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Missing Delema Lou Sits Poor 
Delema, approximately 1974 Date reported missing : 02/20/1974 Missing location (approx) : Pine Ridge, South Dakota Missing classification : Endangered Missing Gender : Female Ethnicity : Native American DOB : 11/21/1961 (59) Age at the time of disappearance: 12 years old Height / Weight : 5'5, 135 pounds Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A white down-filled jacket with two brown stripes on each sleeve, brown bell-bottom pants and sneakers. Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Native American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Delema is of Oglala Sioux descent. Her nickname is Babe. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Delema disappeared from Pine Ridge, South Dakota on February 20, 1974. She and a twelve-year-old girl left Delema's home near Ogallala and were walking a back road from Oglala to Manderson, near the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Temperatures were below zero at the time. Delema's friend turned back after her hands and feet got frostbitten, but Delema continued towards Manderson. She never arrived at her destination and has never been heard from again. She was a student at the Seventh Day Adventist School between Ogallala and Pine Ridge at the time of her disappearance. Authorities believe Delema is deceased, but her body has never been found and the circumstances of her disappearance are unclear. Other information and links : ncy Pine Ridge Police Department 605-867-8127 September 2021 updates and sources Justice for Native Women Missing and Murdered Natives Missing & Endangered NW Missouri & Surrounding Areas The Rapid City Journal October 12, 2004. May 28, 2020; date of disappearance corrected, Description, clothing, jewerly and more : added, Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated. |