This week, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) was banned from the lands of two native tribes in her state, after she made comments in March about tribal leaders, the Associated Press reported.
On Friday, the Yankton Sioux Tribe voted to ban Noem from their land, following the example of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Ovate, which took the same action on Tuesday.
The pair of banishments, which occurred within a week of each other, means that Noem has been banished from nearly 20% of the land in South Dakota, as she had previously been banned from the land of other Native American tribes.
Three of the nine tribes in the state have yet to ban Noem, but the other six include the Oglala, Rosebud, Cheyenne River, and Standing Rock Sioux, along with the two newest bans.
Noem instigated the tribes’ ire after she claimed in March that tribal leaders were neglecting children and the poor on their reservations, in order to accommodate drug cartels, the AP reported.
“We’ve got some tribal leaders that I believe are personally benefiting from the cartels being there, and that’s why they attack me every day,” Noem said at the time. “But I’m going to fight for the people who actually live in those situations, who call me and text me every day and say, ‘Please, dear governor, please come help us in Pine Ridge. We are scared.’”
Noem has previously stated that, in spite of her troubles with tribal leaders, she still gets support from people who live on the reservations.
Noem addressed the cartel concerns in a post on Thursday, writing on X, “Tribal leaders should take action to ban the cartels from their lands and accept my offer to help them restore law and order to their communities while protecting their sovereignty.”
Some commentators believe that Noem’s focus on the drug cartel issue is a bid to deflect attention from backlash that she received after writing in her latest book a story about how she killed her hunting dog, Cricket, after she misbehaved repeatedly and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
“I’m sure that Gov. Noem doesn’t mind a focus on tensions with the Native Americans in South Dakota because if we’re not talking about that, we’re talking about her shooting the dog,” political observer Cal Jilson said.
In late April, Noem took to social media to defend the decision to put the dog down, while simultaneously promoting the memoir.
Noem wrote in the book that, while out hunting pheasants to teach the dog discipline, Cricket became excited and disrupted the activity by chasing the birds, the Guardian reported, who first reported the story.
Noem says that she attempted to control the dog verbally and using a shock collar, but was unable to control her.
While the issue was concerning, Noem wasn’t willing to put the dog down until she reportedly escaped from the governor’s truck, running onto the property of a local family and killing several of their chickens.
Noem claimed that the dog behaved like “a trained assassin,” and met with the owner of the chickens, paid them for the mistake and helped clean up the mess.
While Noem said that the dog was “the picture of pure joy,” she ultimately determined that the dog was “untrainable” and dangerous.
“At that moment. I realized I had to put her down,” Noem reportedly wrote. “It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done.”
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