Robert C. Gray | 7th Cavalry veteran, 83

Robert C. "Snuffy" Gray, 83, a retired Army officer whose life as a soldier, veteran, and friend of Native Americans was the focus of a British television documentary last month, has died.

The cause of death Sunday was a heart attack, said daughter Robyn Gray.

The BBC described the film that aired Feb. 16 Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry as an exploration of "the profound human consequences of America's frontier wars through [Mr. Gray's] moving personal journey."

In 1994, Mr. Gray, a leader of the Korean War Veterans Seventh Cavalry Association, helped organize a ceremony at Fort Meade, Md., bringing together Seventh Cavalry Regiment veterans and Lakota tribe members in a symbolic "Wolakota" reconciliation, a century after the regiment killed up to 370 Lakota men, women, and children in what history knows as the Wounded Knee massacre.
- AP