Verdell Primeaux United States
Biography
Verdell Primeaux is of Oglalla/Yankton Sioux and Ponca heritage and was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Verdell represents the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota and the Eagle Clan of the Ponca Nation. Verdell's mother, Delores Arapahoe, an Ogllala Lakota, is a descendant of Chiefs Many Horses, Red Cloud and Crazy Horse. At birth Verdell was diagnosed with a combination of spinal meningitis and yellow meningitis. Verdell's father, Francis Primeaux, Sr.