A 36-year-old Lame Deer woman was attacked by nearly a dozen dogs early this week on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, leaving her with severe injuries that required her to be airlifted to Billings for treatment.

A neighbor, Lance Littlebird, witnessed the attack of Teela Atwood and stepped to the rescue after she had been dragged into a ditch by the pack of dogs.

Neighbors react to dog attack:

They were all just literally going for the kill on her, Littlebird said Thursday.

Littlebird said the dogs were tearing Atwood apart when he intervened.

I just reached down and I started swinging as well as I could. 'Cause there were just, like, so many dogs there. There were so many of them, Littlebird said.

Deborah Bishop, who said she was Atwoods sister-in-law, described the extent of the

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