Yahoo

'Let's reset': South Dakota tribes call for unity in a post-Noem government

PIERRE — South Dakota's nine tribes are projecting a message of "unity" going into the 2025 state legislative session. Part of the change necessary to bridge state and tribal relations will come from ...
WAMC

Most of South Dakota's tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their land. Here's why

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is the latest tribal government to ban South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from their reservation in response to allegations she's made that some ...
Yahoo

Rosebud Sioux Tribe elects its first female president

Rosebud Sioux Tribal Headquarters in Rosebud. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) The voters of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe elected their first female president on Thursday. According to unofficial ...
The New York Times

Four South Dakota Tribes Bar Gov. Kristi Noem, Trump V.P. Contender, From Lands

The tribes barred the Republican governor from their reservations after she told lawmakers that Mexican drug cartels had a foothold there and were committing murders. By Neil Vigdor Four of South ...
The Spokesman-Review

Four South Dakota tribes bar Gov. Noem from lands

Four of South Dakota’s federally recognized Native American tribes have barred the state’s governor, Kristi Noem – a Republican whose name has been floated as a potential running mate for former ...
Newsday

Tribes blast South Dakota governor's claim that leaders are benefitting from drug cartels

Relations between South Dakota tribes and Republican Gov. Kristi Noem have long been strained, but they have become even more contentious recently as Noem has pointedly criticized tribal leaders, ...
Newsday

South Dakota tribe declares state of emergency over crime

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has declared a public safety state of emergency on its reservation, asking for more law enforcement resources from the federal government.