Northern Arapaho man convicted of murder seeks to enter reservation boundary lawsuit

CHEYENNE, Wyoming — A Northern Arapaho man serving a life sentence for murder in the death of his 22-month-old daughter wants to join a legal fight over the boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation in an effort to have his conviction overturned.

Andrew Yellowbear Jr. asked a federal appeals court this week to be included in the state of Wyoming's challenge to a federal agency's ruling that the town of Riverton is on reservation land.

He was found guilty in state court in the 2004 beating death of his young daughter, Marcela Hope Yellowbear, in Riverton. If the community is considered part of Indian Country, however, the federal government would have jurisdiction, not the state.

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