'You are not welcome to visit our homelands': Tribe threatens to banish SD governor

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has decided unanimously that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is no longer welcome on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

The council on Wednesday approved a letter saying that Noem is not to set foot on the reservation unless she rescinds support for her two bills aimed at Keystone XL pipeline protesters that would codify "riot boosting" in state law and allow the state to sue any person or organization for "riot boosting." Noem announced the bills during the final week of this year's session, and the Legislature passed them within 72 hours.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe was "particularly offended" that Noem consulted with TransCanada prior to introducing the new bills but didn't consult with any of the Sioux tribes whose land would be "traversed and endangered" by the Keystone XL pipeline. The land that "big oil" seeks to enter is the tribe's lands and waters, Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wrote in a letter to Noem.

"I am hereby notifying you that you are not welcome to visit our homelands, the Pine Ridge Reservation, until you rescind your support for Senate Bill 189 and Senate Bill 190 and affirm to your state and this country that First Amendment rights to free, political speech are among the truths you hold to be self-evident," Bear Runner wrote.

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[ck4829]

1. K&R. I welcome more bans against Republican politicians and pundits

[hunter]

2. Quitting oil is like quitting smoking. We just have to do it.

These more onerous oil projects seem like a good place to start.

We ought to be building a society where most people are happy not to own oil fueled automobiles, and the world wide use of oil is declining so precipitously no new oil piplines are being built and older oil pipelines are being removed.

As the Oglala Sioux Tribe defends their own lands they defend the entire earth.

[blue-wave]

3. A big THANK YOU to all Native Americans for Standing Strong

and defending our constitution. You are again teaching us that there is dignity through strength.

[Mc Mike]

4. Go, Lakota! Stay strong. rec, nt