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The clash between South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and tribal leaders in the state continued Tuesday over coronavirus checkpoints set up by some tribes on public roadways leading to their lands.
“No one entering or traveling on a U.S. or State highway will be stopped or impeded,” Noem wrote Tuesday evening to Harold Frazier, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, the Argus Leader of Sioux Falls reported.
But the tribes have so far resisted compliance with the governor’s bid to limit the checkpoints.
“We will not apologize for being an island of safety in a sea of uncertainty and death,” Frazier said in a statement last Friday.
Noem addressed the dispute earlier this week during an appearance on “Fox News @ Night,” in which host Shannon Bream noted that even some state Republicans have opposed the governor regarding the lack of a stay-home order, with some accusing her of placing her own political ambitions ahead of public safety.
A group of 17 state lawmakers sent the governor a letter Saturday saying they did “not wish to be part of another lawsuit that will ultimately cost the people of South Dakota more money.” They said they want a “reasonable, legal and appropriate solution.”
might not be a popular thing to say but that is tribal land and they do have that right. no different than the texas border. that being said our individual rights and freedoms are being snuffed out due to this virus.
PLOT TWIST: Indian tribes use U.S. law to drive whites off land.
The highways through tribal land were built with the agreement that the areas were considered the responsibility of the state or federal government. It’s no different than how the Panama Canal was regulated as an example. Screw the Indians.
All I saw was “Erected” in the headline and my unbleached elastic starfish thought this story was about my Petey B!
I did give him an Indian name after our first date:
Punches With Both Fists
Tribes are not required to pay for any repair or upkeep and they’re not allowed to set any speed limit they please. It’s neutral territory that they derive a benefit from. They are just being pests.
What – the state government run out of smallpox blankets already?
I went that Foxnews site and couldnt read past the picture of her.
“which host Shannon Bream noted that even some state Republicans have opposed the governor regarding the lack of a stay-home order, with some accusing her of placing her own political ambitions ahead of public safety.”
Have to interject leftest propoganda into the story. South Dakota has has less than 40 deaths from the virus but “Republicans” want the state shut down.
It’s payback for all those Small Pox infested blankets
Do the “Native Americans” believe (actually will say “I believe”) that a truck zipping along at a mile a minute. With some plague infested “pale faces” inside. (Even with the windows open, and that Marstanic yodeling blaring out.) Are going to kill all the firstest, bestest, “Americans”?
Or? Is the problem that they expect (actually predict) their own will behave themselves like a bunch of “urban” “hood rats”? Driving around. Picking up “party supplies”. And plague. And bringing it (all) back. To spread around. At home.
But that’s too politically badthink. To deal with at the border. (Hand up. “Pale face”? Wave on through. “Person of Color”? Pop the trunk. Let’s see all your IDs. Cheek swabs. “Where you all been? Whatcha’ been doin’? Let’s see some receipts.”) Too politically badthink. Even for other “Persons of Color”.
did i mention that ms. noem is pretty fetching?
Inslee shut down the drive through Olympic Game Farm that you pay on entry and never leave your vehicle out of nothing but malicious intent.
https://olygamefarm.com/
What is going on under color of law is ludicrous. At this juncture it is an every opportunist and aspiring tyrant for himself, all out free for all.
Nothing makes any legal sense any more.
Our forefathers would have been tar and feathering the bastards by now.
@Monkey May 13, 2020 at 8:47 pm
> did i mention that ms. noem is pretty fetching?
No. But there’s one of those “carries a big stick” articles, a few pages back.
Sioux – er – sue the shit out of them.
The tribes are sovereign when it suits them and not sovereign when it doesn’t. I would assume they think they can get something from the state by doing this. Almost all of our Whu Flu cases are in one county, on the east side of the state. This is showmanship for gain.
HEY! We didn’t know the fricken injuns couldn’t handle smallpox!
Send in the Army to break the blockade, and pacify the indians.
Tribal lands or not, the Federal and State highways are public right-of-way, and the indians have no more right than anyone else to block public access.
where’s Liawatha Warren when we need her?
& … smallpox blankets is heap big bullshit … go look it up
Every off ramp onto tribal land can be covered. The way through by agreement cannot. She handled it correctly.
I’d sure love to have the Governor smoke my peace pipe!
Give the Indians a couple cases of whiskey, case closed.
Seems a lot of people here believe America was built on indian genocide.