The Oglala Sioux Tribe has banished South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem from their territory over comments she made about the U.S. border with Mexico, stating that sovereign nations should control who crosses their borders.
The tribe’s president accused Noem of smearing Native Americans and trying to further her chances to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate.
The tribe’s president declared Noem was not welcome on Oglala Territory, highlighting the irony of the situation.
A South Dakota tribe has banned Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. https://t.co/xEPGwmxPr1 https://t.co/bqVPOo2dcz
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) February 4, 2024
“The cartels are here in South Dakota, and they are perpetuating violence and criminal activity daily on South Dakota families,” Noem said. “They are killing our children with their drugs and trafficking.”
“Many of the people coming to the Southern border of the United States in search of jobs and a better life are Indian people from such places as El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico and don’t deserve to be dehumanized and mistreated,” Star Comes Out wrote.
“They don’t need to be put in cages, separated from their children like during the Trump Administration, or be cut up by razor wire furnished by, of all places, South Dakota,” he wrote.
“I understand that some of the words, they would have appreciated being changed. The problem is I didn’t name that gang,” Noem said. “I did speak truth, and everything I said was absolutely true.”
“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” he wrote of Noem.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is “neither a Democrat nor Republican tribe; the tribe has to work with whatever administration, Democrat or Republican, that is elected into power,” he wrote.
Gov. Kristi Noem is once again banned from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. https://t.co/Tmb57zQ0HL
— The Dakota Scout (@TheDakotaScout) February 3, 2024
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