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daylong meeting of the tribe's law and order committee.
• As with the first list -- submitted in May -- the majority of cases presented Wednesday are from the 1970s, when the murder rate on the reservation was the highest in the nation and tension between the American Indian Movement and federal authorities was high.
• But the new list broadens the scope of the requested investigations by several decades by including the 1964 death of Delbert T. Yellow Wolf, the oldest case presented for re-examination so far, and the 2010 death of Samantha One Horn. One person on the list is missing but has not been declared dead.
• Baker -- of the Colorado firm Smith, Shelton, Ragona & Salazar, which is working with the tribe -- said tribal leaders expanded the original list after uncovering new information. Further details on the cases were not made available.

• Johnson said his office will cross-reference the names from the lists. Three attorneys from his office already are going through files and seeing if there are cases in which new prosecutions could be brought or additional investigative work is necessary.
• Johnson said prosecutions on the Pine Ridge reservation increased last year, and that active cases will continue to take precedent over inactive cases. Some of the old cases could be reviewed in as little as six to 12 months, he said, while others "could take a long time."
• The original list contained 28 cases that Oglala Sioux officials wanted reopened because they said the FBI hadn't sufficiently investigated them. Eleven more cases resulted in prosecutions, but the tribe believed those prosecuted "were inadequately charged and/or received insufficient sentences."
• Baker acknowledged further prosecution was unlikely because the American judicial system doesn't allow for suspects to be tried twice for the same crime.
• Last month, Johnson announced three attorneys from his office would review the case files from the first list of names. But because many of the cases occurred during a violent period of the 1970s, Johnson said it would likely be challenging to gather new evidence.
• The FBI typically investigates murders on reservations while the U.S. Attorney prosecutes the cases.
• Tom Poor Bear, the tribe's vice president, said the requests for new investigations stem from tribe members' "lack of trust in the FBI."
• "I would like to see a special team of investigators other than the FBI come down and investigate these deaths," he told the AP in June. He didn't return a phone call

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