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by Anne Sherwood
LeRoy Comes Last, a full-blooded Lakota-Sioux, with his Northern Cheyenne wife, Sabrina, and their grandson, Ryan Padraza Comes Last, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana. Ryan is a full-blooded Indian, but according to Fort Peck rules, his "blood quantum" is only three-quarters -- the tribe doesn't recognize his Northern Cheyenne heritage.






