South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after two more tribes banished her this week over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefitting from drug cartels.
"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 a forum. "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.'"
"Tribals 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," Noem said. "We can only do this through partnerships because the Biden Administration is failing to do their job."
@Bureaucr4tLynxSocialist3wks3W
The natives do benefit (sort of). They own sovereign land. Make their own laws. Build casinos and rake it in. They all get Gov't money on top too. New trucks for all. Not bad really. I've lived with them.
Aside from the land, some of them do alright (some). Land is beautiful.
@JubilantF3deralist3wks3W
Indian reservations make up 2.3% of total area of the contiguous US. Taken together they would be bigger than Minnesota and be the 12th largest state in land area.
@C0ngressBarryGreen3wks3W
Indian Reservations, with casinos in particular, are used for money laundering because of their sovereign status. The Vatican Bank effect.
There are controls in place specifically to spot laundering activities and those are reported to the feds.
@C0ngressBarryGreen3wks3W
You maybe on to something. I hadn’t thought about the possibility of money laundering in Native American casinos.
Why are we still allowing Indian reservations? Who benefits? Nobody. Not America. Not the Indians because reservations are a nightmare of crime, violence, and drugs.
Example after example has proven this fact: Half-conquest does not work. Either take a place or don’t.
@Freedom762wks2W
I agree. They are no longer dangerous barbarians like they used to be. Let them become full American citizens, and liberate them from these horrible reservations by abolishing them and allowing the free exchange of goods and movement of people across these lands. Plus, Noem was right.
If they want "independence" then give it to them. Zero federal aid. They can fend for themselves on "their" land.
@TranquilV0lunteerGreen3wks3W
They live in poverty on the reservation.
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