140 hours ago, Governor Kristi Noem gave the Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes 48 hours to remove their coronavirus-control checkpoints from highways on…
Tag: American Indians
Seventeen legislators have signed a letter to Governor Kristi Noem telling her to drop her demand that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux…
Governor Kristi Noem is demanding that our Lakota neighbors stop taking coronavirus so seriously: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday told tribes to take…
Aberdeen mayor Travis Schaunaman says there “we no longer have a legitimate fear of overwhelming the [health care] system” with coronavirus patients and thus plans…
The Daily Yonder notes that three Super Tuesday states—Minnesota, Colorado, and Oklahoma—have sizable American Indian populations that could affect the electoral outcomes. The article notes…
In its umpteenth outburst of outrageous hypocrisy, the Legislature let die this week a resolution calling for the federal government to rescind the Medals of…
Governor Kristi Noem is far more interested in protecting pipelines than protecting women against violence. Chris Duesing and Brett Curry of the Veteran Service Corps…
House Bill 1117, Governor Kristi Noem’s attempt to rewrite the unconstitutional anti-protest/pro-pipeline “riot-boosting” bill that she rushed through the Legislature last year, passed House State…
SDSU Extension has released a new online guide to Dakota and Lakota traditional games. I can find no explanation in that guide for the wasicu…
In 2016, the Legislature established the State of the Tribes Address as a symbolic gesture of respect for our Native neighbors, as well as an…