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Cole Brings Plenty, an actor in the television series \u201c1923,\u201d was found dead on Friday in Kansas after his family reported him missing earlier in the week, officials said.<\/p>\n
The Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a statement<\/a> that its deputies had found Mr. Brings Plenty, 27, in a wooded area in Johnson County, which borders Missouri.<\/p>\n The deputies had been responding to a report of an unoccupied vehicle and found him dead in an area away from it, the statement said. The office did not provide a cause of death.<\/p>\n Mr. Brings Plenty, who identified himself as Mnicoujou Lakota on Instagram, played Pete Plenty Clouds, a Native American sheepherder, in the television show \u201c1923,\u201d a prequel to \u201cYellowstone<\/a>.\u201d The show depicts abuse toward Native American children in boarding schools<\/a> established or supported by the government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In May 2023, Mr. Brings Plenty and his uncle Mo Brings Plenty visited the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in Washington to talk about the boarding schools<\/a> and other issues<\/a> affecting Native Americans.<\/p>\n Mr. Brings Plenty\u2019s acting credits also include the Western television shows \u201cInto the Wild Frontier\u201d and \u201cThe Tall Tales of Jim Bridger,\u201d according to IMDb, the entertainment database. He was a student<\/a> at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan.<\/p>\n Mr. Brings Plenty\u2019s father, Joe Brings Plenty Sr., confirmed his son\u2019s death in a statement<\/a> shared by a family spokeswoman, Michelle Shining Elk.<\/p>\n \u201cWe would also like to thank everyone who came to walk beside us as we searched for my son and provided the resources we needed to expand our search areas,\u201d Mr. Brings Plenty Sr. said in the statement.<\/p>\n Mo Brings Plenty<\/a> shared a missing person\u2019s poster<\/a> on social media that said his nephew went missing on March 31 and had missed an appointment with his agent, which was \u201cuncharacteristic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The poster said that Mr. Brings Plenty had last been seen in Lawrence, Kan.<\/p>\n