South Dakota is soft on crime…at least when crime is committed by Republicans. Former Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg drove distracted, killed a man, and lied…
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Indian voting rights advocates have been fighting for years to get early-voting satellite stations to give our Lakota neighbors equal ballot access. Representative Shawn Bordeaux…
Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) prime-sponsored 28 bills and one resolution this Session, almost all directly advancing American Indian interests. Only one, House Bill 1185, made it to…
Two of the Legislature’s Lakota members, Rosebud neighbors Senator Troy Heinert (D-26/Mission) and Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission), are out to change some names that indigenous…
Speaker Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) is so mad at Representative Shawn Bordeaux for being an uppity Indian that he’s not satisfied with removing Bordeaux as chair…
Only in South Dakota do white legislators get to cancel a committee meant to promote better interracial relations by branding its Lakota chairman as racist:…
Rosebud Sioux Tribe member and Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) recognizes the obvious: South Dakota lawmakers don’t know enough about Lakota culture. To address his oppressors’…
Three years ago, Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) won passage of legislation to protect Lakota students’ right to wear Native regalia at school ceremonies. This year…
Governor Kristi Noem hasn’t completely crushed the spirit of wacky power-grabbing House Republicans. On Friday she told the Legislature drop its push to legalize industrial…
The Oyate for Fairness and Equal Representation (OFFER) is meeting Wednesday, March 7, at 1 p.m. CST in Rose Cordier’s office in the Rosebud Tribal…