“Back in Denver, I heard singing in the alleyways, whooping in downtown. But around the campfires he found the “real warrior society” he craved. “I was all, ‘I'm gonna go hole up with my dog and not talk to anyone for the rest of my life,’ ” he said. On a long road trip in mid-2016 with his dog, Scout, a shepherd mix, he dropped in on his closest army friend, a Lower Brule Sioux, at Kul Wicasa. After his service, he said, he moved home to Denver and, missing the close bonds of the military, fell into years of depression. “We're a good collection of misfits here,” said Ken “Abe” Abrahamson, a Coloradan with a ruddy beard and piercing eyes who had ridden into Baghdad in 2003 as a gunner with the 3 rd Infantry Division. They were Ojibwes and Yanktons and Standing Rock Sioux-all in search of a sense of purpose. The youth at Kul Wicasa had come from reservations across the country.
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