Kristi Noem Is Now Banned From 20% Of South Dakota

A sixth Native American tribe has banned Gov. Kristi Noem from entering their territory, which means that the governor can't enter roughly 20% of her state.

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Kristi Noem Gets Banned In Her Own State

Before she gained national attention for being a puppy murderer, Gov. Kristi Noem was smearing South Dakota’s tribes which ended with her being banned from entering tribal lands.

The AP reported:

The Sissteon-Wahpeton Oyate tribe banned Noem earlier this week. Then Friday the leadership committee of the Yankton Sioux Tribe recommended that Noem be banned, but that tribe’s general council must vote on it before Noem could be banned from their land in southeastern South Dakota. The Oglala, Rosebud, Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Sioux tribes had already taken action to keep her off their reservations. Three other tribes haven’t yet banned her.

Noem reinforced the divisions between the tribes and the rest of the state in March when she said publicly that tribal leaders were catering to drug cartels on their reservations while neglecting the needs of children and the poor.

“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.’ ”

Occasionally, but not often enough, the politics of division is discussed. In the AP report above, division is referenced. As far as anti-democracy Republicans are concerned, Kristi Noem isn’t any different from the rest in her basic anti-democracy beliefs.

In order for people with authoritarian impulses to successfully attack democracy, they must do something else first, which is the very thing that Noem is doing in South Dakota. Let’s talk about it below.