So, the Indians want to ban her for wanting to help securing the border, claiming it will bar indigenous people from seeking better life here.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/sou...s-us-southern-border

By Greg Wehner | Fox News
Published February 4, 2024 5:41pm EST

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was banned from the Pine Ridge Reservation after speaking about wanting to bolster the U.S.-Mexico border by sending razor wire and security personnel to Texas, adding that cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.

Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out issued a statement on social media on Friday regarding Noem’s comments.

"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. "Oyate" is a word for people or nation.

In a four-page letter shared on Facebook, Star Comes Out accused the South Dakota governor of using the issue at the border to get former President Trump reelected while boosting her chance of becoming his choice for vice president.

Star Comes Out said he believes many people coming to the southern border in search of jobs and a better life are indigenous people from places like El Salvadore, Guatemala and Mexico and do not deserve to be "dehumanized and mistreated" by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and "his cohorts."

"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.

The tribal leader also took offense to comments made by Noem about the "Ghost Dancers," saying they are affiliated with cartels. Star Comes Out said the Ghost Dance is "one of the most sacred ceremonies" and accused Noem of using the term with "blatant disrespect" and of insulting the Oyate.

Noem’s comments were made last Wednesday, and at the time, the Republican governor blasted conditions at the border.

During a speech to a joint session of the legislature, Noem said the U.S. was in a time of invasion, which was coming over the southern border.

"The 50 states have a common enemy, and that enemy is the Mexican drug cartels," Noem said. "They are waging war against our nation, and these cartels are perpetuating violence in each of our stages, even right here in South Dakota."

In response to Star Comes Out’s comments, the governor said it was unfortunate he chose to bring politics into a discussion about the federal government’s failures to enforce federal laws at the southern border and on tribal lands.

"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."

Noem has deployed South Dakota National Guard troops three times to the border, including last year, and she has visited several times, including on Friday. Other Republican governors have deployed troops and visited the border, too.

In 2021, Noem drew criticism for accepting a $1 million donation offered by a wealthy Republican donor to help cover the cost of a two-month deployment of 48 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.

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So, the Indians want to ban her for wanting to help securing the border, claiming it will bar indigenous people from seeking better life here

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Visit the Pine Ridge reservation if you would like to see third world poverty, unemployment and alcoholism on a grand scale. Do not know the politcs but you don't want the indigenous people on your back.

Shouldn't the Indians well understand the need to keep unwanted people off your lands?

You'd think the Indians would have a thing or two to say about alien invaders.

When I was still with ATF, all agents of ATF were banned from two of the Indian reservations in my area as well. It was even painted on a sign. I paid that “banishment” exactly the same amount of consideration as Governor Noem should pay this “banishment.” Lots and lots of lawlessness, smuggling, etc. on Indian lands. I pay very little mind to how they think US affairs should be carried out.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
Shouldn't the Indians well understand the need to keep unwanted people off your lands?

Apparently Star Flames Out doesn't make that connection. I wonder how many jobs he has available and how much money he will provide.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Visit the Pine Ridge reservation if you would like to see third world poverty, unemployment and alcoholism on a grand scale.

Visiting any ungentrified rez will get you that view.

Isn't the Indians banning her from their property the same thing as closing the border?

Talk about being a hypocrite.

It's just fucking politics, as Noem pointed out, without the "fucking". The SOB just takes marching order from his DNC masters, that's all.

Star Not So Bright.

They banned us from their casinos, my read on it.

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Frank Star Comes Out

Because Slinging Bull was already taken.

So, Chicago might try diverting the buses to the Reservation now... just saying.

Looks like we’re playing “Cowboys and Indians” again!

Until a few years ago I didn’t know health care provided on the reservations comes out of the DoD budget. They pretty much have state of the art available at the hospitals

I thought the Indian Health Service (IHS) was part of HHS, but it’s been a long time since I paid attention to those things.

If they were indigenous, wouldn't they already be here?

I'm thinking a couple of busses need to make a drop off at the reservation.

Yes. Paging Governor Abbott. You're needed at Greyhound.

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Heheheh…got a good chuckle outta that one, doc.