article_snippet: Vern Traversie's is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
article_snippet: YouTube videos featuring 69-year-old Vern Traversie, a Lakota man who lives on the Cheyenne River Reservation, went viral in Native American communities in 2012.
article_snippet: In YouTube videos featuring 69-year-old Vern Traversie, a Lakota man who lives on the Cheyenne River Reservation, Vern Traversie's talks about being mistreated at the hospital where the operation took place in 2012 and shows A lawyer for a Native American man who claimed the letters 'KKK' .
highlights_snippet: Vern Traversie's is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and noted a lonh history of discrimination in the region .