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Community comes together to search for missing relative

Shalom Baer Gee
Dec 30, 2022
Dec 30, 2022 Updated Apr 30, 2025
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Duane Yellow Cloud missing poster

A missing person poster for 51-year-old Duane Yellow Cloud affixed to a pole on 6th Street in Rapid City on Friday. Yellow Cloud's family has not heard from him since Dec. 12.

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Searchers along Rapid Creek

Searchers walk along Rapid Creek looking for 51-year-old Duane Yellow Cloud.

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Searchers in brush

Searchers look on Friday morning through brush along Rapid Creek for 51-year-old Duane Yellow Cloud.

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Searchers railroad tracks — Searchers look on Friday morning through brush below railroad tracks by Dunham Field in Rapid City for 51-year-old Duane Yellow Cloud.
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Duane Yellow Cloud — Duane Yellow Cloud, 51, hasn't contacted family since Dec. 12 and was reported missing on Tuesday.
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Waniyetu Yellow Cloud — Waniyetu Yellow Cloud talks to searchers on Friday morning by Rapid Creek. Yellow Cloud's father, Duane Yellow Cloud, has not contacted him since Dec. 12. Waniyetu filed a missing person's report on Tuesday.
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Hermus Bettelyoun — Hermus Bettelyoun points on Friday morning at a parking lot on Cambell Street near the Central State's Fairgrounds in Rapid City as he explains the plans of a search along Rapid Creek for 51-year-old Duane Yellow Cloud.
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— Contact Shalom Baer Gee at sgee@rapidcityjournal.com —

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