Nancy Rena Tello
June 10, 1940 to June 5, 2025
Nancy Tello was born in Arvada, Colorado, in 1940. Her birth mother was Shoshone of the Wind River Reservation, and her father was a German American. When she was almost 3 years old, she was put up for adoption and raised in Wyoming by her adoptive parents. She was placed in a boarding school by her adoptive parents when she was 15, and ended up in the …