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Firefighter Leland Red Eagle, Lakota, Pine Ridge Reservation, is pictured holding his Certificate of Training alongside his uncle, Chief Hank Murphy, Sycuan Kumeyaay fire chief, just minutes after Mr. Murphy officially presented the former recruit with his firefighting certificate during the Sycuan-BIA Wildland Academy graduation in 2006. LELAND RED EAGLEWELCOME... Leland Red Eagle is a Native American firefighter serving with the elite Sycuan Golden Eagles Hotshots, a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC) based on the Sycuan Indian Reservation. "RED EAGLE" as he is called on the crew, is an enrolled member of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, a Oglala Lakota Indian Nation.
Red Eagle, a seasoned federal wildland fireman with the Sycuan Fire Department, is pictured in a Bakersfield breakfast diner donning a fresh Mohawk haircut the day before. Red Eagle and most of his other Golden Eagles crewmembers got Mohawks in support of the crew's rookies, who by Sycuan tradition, receive Mohawk haircuts until after fighting their first fire. Red Eagle is a 2006 graduate of Sycuan's fire academy and had already completed a fire season when this picture was taken in 2007 fire season.
Red Eagle (left) poses for a picture at Base Camp with two of his fellow firefighters.
Leland Red Eagle, an Oglala Lakota Indian from Kyle, South Dakota, has danced North American Traditional style at the Sycuan Powwows since he was a young boy. Sycuan reservation historical pictures courtesy of GARY. G. BALLARD, pow-wow photograper. Email text info, links and blog photos to CONTACT WEBMASTER MY FIRE DEPARTMENT BLOG
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