JOHN SUNCHILD obituary

ROCKY BOY - John Roddy "Eagle" Sunchild, an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2004, of natural causes at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va.

A wake will be held on Saturday and Sunday at Our Saviour's Luthern Church at Rocky Boy. A burial with military honors will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Rocky Boy Cemetery.

John was born on June 10, 1930, in the Bear Paw Mountains to Pete and Fannie (Oats) Sunchild. He was the grandson of Sunchild, an early leader of the Cree people. John served in the Korean conflict as a U...