As Bluestem posted in Winner, Noem links tribal leaders to cartels and Malice: she's on it. Tribal leaders insulted after Governor Noem claims they "are personally benefiting from the cartels being here" South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem had once again linked tribal nations to cartels.
At the end of January, Noem had earned the tribes' anger when she singled out reservations as hotbeds of cartel activity. as Bluestem had noted in Drug cartels have infiltrated reservations, Noem says, but some tribal voices call speech ‘political’.
In Bluestem reported the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Dakota's admonishment of the governor in SWO Dakota to Governor Noem: don't single out reservations when drugs are a statewide problem.
The tribe has responded to this latest wave of gubernatorial malice with the press release, published on the tribe's Facebook page on Wednesday:
There's more coverage of the tribes' reaction to this latest episode in the South Dakota Searchlight's Oglala, Rosebud tribal presidents demand governor apologize for comments last week and Tribes call for apology from Governor Noem in the Rapid City Journal.
Screenshot: Governor Noem as she talks about tribal leaders "personally benefitting from the cartels being here." From a Facebook Watch video.
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