Echo Hawk Conveys Nation’s Gratitude for Fallen Officers

Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Service

by Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Currents. Discussion »


ARTESIA, NEW MEXICO - Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk conveyed the nation’s gratitude on Thursday to the families of seven police officers who were being honored at the 20th Annual Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Service. The ceremony was held at the United States Indian Police Academy in Artesia, New Mexico.

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“As law enforcement officers stand together as brothers and sisters to protect one another, so this administration will stand with you,”

Echo Hawk said.

“On behalf of a grateful nation, President Obama and Secretary Salazar, we honor and remember your sacrifice - now and for future generations.”

This year seven names were added to the list that will bring the total on the memorial to 96. Those to be added on Thursday’s ceremony were:

  • BIA Deputy Special Officer A.H. Scott, killed June 22, 1925
  • Uintah and Ouray Tribal Police Officer Joshua Yazzie, killed June 2, 2010
  • City of Hoonah, Alaska, Police Officer Anthony Michael Wallace, killed August 28, 2010
  • City of Hoonah, Alaska, Police Officer Matthew Dean Tokuoka, killed August 28, 2010
  • US Border Patrol Agent George Debates, killed December 19, 2004
  • US Border Patrol Agent Michael Vincent Gallagher, killed September 2, 2010
  • Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Police Officer Merrill Allen Bruguier, killed October 9, 2010

The Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial was first dedicated on May 7, 1992, at the US Indian Police Academy, which was then in Marana, Arizonia. The academy and the memorial were later moved to their present site on the US Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) campus in Artesia. The memorial was rededicated there on May 6, 1993.


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