Governor Kristi Noem’s first executive order in 2019 reorganized two state agencies, moving the Office of Indian Education our of the Department of Education and…
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Fifteen South Dakota schools have chosen to offer their fall classes entirely online and cancel fall sports. All are Indian schools: At this point schools…
We don’t know and won’t know how much coronavirus spread due to the Sturgis Rally. But we do have figures on another pathology that the…
Governor Kristi Noem has damaged state-tribal relations with her vigorous attacks on tribal efforts to protect their communities from coronavirus with highway checkpoints. The Legislature’s…
With Sturgis about to become the largest coronavirus experiment in the country (something like phone booth stuffing, but with far greater risk), Governor Kristi Noem…
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…
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…