The South Dakota governor claims Native American officials are in league with drug cartels.
“Her remarks were made from ignorance and with the intention to fuel a racially based and discriminatory narrative towards the Native people of South Dakota,” Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Scott Herman told The Daily Beast.at a town hall meeting Wednesday have further damaged her relationship with the state’s tribes—one of which had already banned her from its reservation after similar insinuations.
“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Star Comes Out said in a statement addressed to Noem. Herman, the Rosebud Sioux leader, said that was an insult to Native American students, their parents, and the tribal councils and presidents or chairmen of the nine reservations of South Dakota.
“Gov. Noem’s racially prejudiced remarks about Tribal presidents and tribal councils being focused on a ‘political agenda’ are simply not true,” he added. “Gov. Noem’s malicious remarks that Tribal officials ‘benefit’ from the presence of cartels without any evidence is made without any basis in truth, and is defamatory and libelous.
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