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Indian Affairs rapes

WASHINGTON — Two minor girls of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe accuse a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer of raping them while he was on duty. The girls, through their mothers, are suing under 1868's Treaty with the Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho, which allows for reimbursement of injury committed by "a bad man among the whites."

Read the complaint here.

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