OAN’s James Meyers
9:19 AM – Monday, February 5, 2024
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has been banned from an Indian reservation for wanting to strengthen security at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.
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Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out of the Pine Ridge Reservation announced the banning on social media.
“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 Friday statement addressed to Noem (R- S.D.) . “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.
In the four page letter, Star Comes Out accused Noem of using the issue to help get former president Donald Trump re-elected and increase her chances of becoming his VP pick.
He said those at the border “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”.
Additionally, the tribal leader said he took offense to recent comments made by Noem about the “Ghost Dancers” saying they are affiliated with cartels. Star Comes Out accused Noem of “blatant disrespect” and insulting the Oyate.
Noem responded to Star Comes Out comments, claiming it was unfortunate that he chose to bring politics into the federal government’s failures at the border, according to Noem.
“My focus continues to be on working together to solve those problems,” she said. “As I told bipartisan Native American legislators earlier this week, ‘I am not the one with a stiff arm here. You can’t build relationships if you don’t spend time together,’” Noem said. “I stand ready to work with any of our state’s Native American tribes to build such relationships.”
Meanwhile, Noem has deployed her state’s National Guard troops three times to the border, which includes last year.
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