Did you really think Governor Kristi Noem was going to embrace industrial hemp? Four months after the Legislature passed 2020 House Bill 1008, Noem’s bureaucratic…
Tag: American Indians
The United States Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the law is the law and that eastern Oklahoma is all still Indian reservation: The court held…
Chicken Kristi never followed up on her threat to take the tribes to court for setting up sensible coronavirus checkpoints at the Cheyenne River and…
Donald Trump’s impending ego trip to Mount Rushmore reminds us of the angst over blasting white faces into the Black Hills: “Mount Rushmore is a…
White Supremacist Auctions Farm Gear Monday, Provided Legal Precedent for Tribal Checkpoints in 2019
Gordon, Nebraska, felon, gambler, and white supremacist Rudy “Butch” Stanko is retiring—not from white supremacy, as far as we know, but from agriculture. Alas, such…
Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) wants to know why the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has checkpoints to stop visitors from bringing coronavirus to the reservation but…
As South Dakota’s anti-Indian Governor Kristi Noem urges people to abandon social distancing and flock to our state, Montana Governor Steve Bullock is respecting tribal…
On SDPB yesterday, USD Professor Emeritus Frank Pommersheim gave an excellent rundown of Governor Kristi Noem’s misguided effort to assert her (white) supremacy over South…
One negative consequence of the tribes’ strong measures against coronavirus: potentially greater Census undercount. Rural areas that depend on Census workers to stop by in…
Governor Kristi Noem hasn’t actually said that she emptily threatened to sue the Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes over their coronavirus checkpoints because…