In this week’s White-Mansplaining file, Senator Marion Michael Rounds tells us why he thinks Congresswoman Deb Haaland, member of the Laguna Pueblo and now confirmed…
Tag: American Indians
Our Legislature doesn’t care much for Indians, either. The Capitol Club couldn’t agree on toothless language acknowledging the pain we inflicted on generations of Native…
“Indian Health Service” and “effectiveness” don’t often appear in the same sentence without some negative words in between. But Rosebud Sioux President Rodney Bordeaux says…
It’s bad enough that the Legislature isn’t willing to cross the Governor and require that her Tribal Affairs Secretary occasionally report to the Legislature’s State-Tribal…
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…
With a bunch of Indians coming to the Capitol yesterday for the State of the Tribes Address, Governor Kristi Noem socially distanced herself all the…
Here’s how white colonizers operate: invade and steal indigenous land, force the indigenous people onto reservations controlled by the colonizers, lease that reservation land out…
Our Lakota neighbors recognize that Joe Biden will be our next President, and they are working hard to protect our land and our women from…
Bob Mercer reports that the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names has proposed naming a creek south of Pierre Arikara Creek, in recognition of the…
Governor Kristi Noem bragged Monday to the Legislature that she has kept coronavirus cases from overloading South Dakota’s hospitals. Evidently part of her strategy for…