“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!”
Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem.
Star Comes Out accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.
He added that the tribe is a sovereign nation and does not belong to the state of South Dakota.
FILE - Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out stands outside the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building and U.S.
In November, Star Comes Out declared a state of emergency on the Pine Ridge Reservation due to increasing crime.
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