Bob Mercer raises the need for a minor correction of Representative Tim Goodwin’s (R-30/Rapid City) understanding of a new South Dakota landmark. During a House…
Tag: American Indians
[Note: Four Directions has paid me for freelance writing. Four Directions is not paying me to write this article.] OJ Semans, leader of American Indian…
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…
Boy, for being all about economic development, Governor Kristi Noem sure doesn’t want to give South Dakota farmers first access to the newly legalized industrial…
Ah, the smug racism of white boys wearing Trump caps: Appalling, boys. But his is the behavior to which Donald Trump inspires white boys. Indian…
Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Rodney Bordeaux told the Legislature Thursday that expanding Medicaid would help South Dakota’s tribes deal with healthcare shortfalls. He said broadening…
Indigenous voting rights group Four Directions did solid work fighting voter suppression and getting out the Native America vote on the Standing Rock Reservation in North…
I think often about my neighbor Larry Spitzer’s question, back during Aberdeen’s great library debate, about why South Dakota would want to be like Minnesota.…
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Carpenter v. Murphy, in which a Native American on Oklahoma’s death row contends that he was convicted…
To warm up for whatever voter suppression efforts part flunktionary Steve Barnett has in mind to mark his time in the Secretary of State’s office,…