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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2003

The Bureau of Indian Affairs will add three names to its memorial to fallen police officers.

At the 12th annual memorial service on May 1, Dale Hollow Horn, Lloyd Aragon and Robert James Taylor will join the BIA Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial, a tribute to those who have died while serving Indian Country.

According to a BIA press release, Hollow Horn died while serving the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. On April 5, 1980, he was accidentally shot by another officer on duty.

Aragon died August 1, 2001, on the Laguna Reservation in New Mexico. Aragon, a state police officer, was helping two tribal police officers when he was hit and killed by a suspect in a stolen vehicle, the BIA press release said.

Taylor died May 27, 2002, and is the most recent fallen Indian police officer that has been reported. He drowned while trying to save a fisherman whose boat capsized on the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana.

The names on the BIA memorial date to the 1800s. The memorial is located in Artesia in southern New Mexico, where the BIA Indian Police Academy is housed.

Thursday's ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. The academy is located at 1300 West Richey Avenue.

Relevant Links:
Law Enforcement Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs - http://bialaw.fedworld.gov

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