The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has banned Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of the largest in the U.S.

“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.

Star Comes Out accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.

Many of those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are Indigenous people from places like El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico who come “in search of jobs and a better life,” the tribal leader added.

  • @Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    107•5 months ago

    ”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,” [Star Comes Out] said.

    Good for the Oyate standing up with a strong leader. If anyone knows anything about the cruelty the American government can inflict, it’s the Native American people.

    • @thisbenzingringEnglish
      22•5 months ago

      The Oglala are the people that Wounded Knee happened to.

      The Oglala are the people who forced the US Army Surrender and then had the Treaty of Fort Laramie broken by the US.

      Red Cloud is one of my grandfathers. We are a strong people.

      We know the special kinds of cruelty the US Government can cause.