South Dakota Sioux tribe refuses to take down checkpoints that governor says are illegal

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/us/south-dakota-sioux-checkpoints-coronavirus/index.html

(CNN)The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is refusing to end coronavirus checkpoints declared illegal by the state's governor, saying they are the best tool they have to stop the virus from spreading. Gov. Kristi Noem sent letters Friday to the leaders of the Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux tribes demanding that the checkpoints along the US and state highways through tribal land be removed. Her office released an update Sunday clarifying the request: "The checkpoints on state and US highways are not legal, and if they don't come down, the state will take the matter to Federal court, as Governor Noem noted in her Friday letter."

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier told CNN that the main purpose of the checkpoints set up by the tribe is to monitor and try to track coronavirus if it should ever come in to tribal lands. "We want to ensure that people coming from 'hot spots' or highly infected areas, we ask them to go around our land," Frazier said. When asked about Noem's request that the tribe take down the checkpoints as they "interfere with regulating traffic on US and state highways," Frazier said that they're going to stay put.
"With the lack of resources we have medically, this is our best tool we have right now to try to prevent [the spread of Covid-19]," Frazier told CNN.

Frazier said that reservations are ill-equipped to deal with a coronavirus outbreak adding that, "the nearest health care, critical care is three hours away from where we live." Frazier says that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe only operates an eight-bed facility on the reservation and no intensive care unit (ICU) for the 12,000 people that live on the reservation. Sunday's letter written by Gov. Noem's Policy Director, Maggie Seidel, points to a memorandum pertaining to road closures on tribal lands issued by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, written on April 8.

The memorandum states that tribes "may restrict road use or close" tribally-owned roads temporarily without first consulting with the Secretary of the Interior or private landowners under conditions involving "immediate safety or life-threatening situations," like the pandemic. But it says tribes can only restrict access over roads owned by others such as state governments "on behalf of the affected road owner after the tribe has consulted and reached an agreement addressing the parameters of the temporary road closure or restrictions." Seidel says no consultation has taken place and no agreement reached, saying "the memorandum makes it perfectly clear it is unlawful to interrupt the flow of traffic on these roads." In Friday's letter, Noem said "we are strongest when we work together; this includes our battle against Covid-19."

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FUCK OFF Noem!!!

KKKristi the assclown

fucking poxy MAGAt trash, genocidal wannabe Trump mushroom licker

[notdarkyet]

1. She's handing out hydroychlocine to everyone in the state. Go to court you bitch.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I stand with the South Dakota Sioux tribe!

The republicans can take a hike.

[bluestarone]

3. With you here and

The native Americans!!!!! The hell with the tRUMPY gov.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. So, I guess

what smallpox couldn't take care of with the first European settlers' arrival, she's thinking COVID-19 can handle.

Here's an idea: Let's dress up IQ45 as "the Golden Boy" - General George Custer - and send him in to settle it.


DISCLAIMER: OK, you know I'm not REALLY suggesting that those fighting with the state authorities should send in IQ45 to resolve the issue, right? Nor am I suggesting any violent acts on anybody's part to resolve these issues, even though I know I'd be mad as hell about ANYBODY trying to make me more susceptible to the virus infection.

BUT I MUST SAY - it would be fun to see IQ45 in full uniform riding into ANYWHERE on a horse, sword drawn!

ANOTHER DISCLAIMER: I'm sorry, horse........

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. Obviously, she asked George W Bush

(the 2nd worst president ever) how to deal with sovereign entities.

[Staph]

6. I should never question another's fashion sense, as mine is questionable according to my sisters ...

but, puleeze! A camo dress shirt, with a fringed collar edges and shoulder seams, and a Colonel Sanders tie!

Coco Chanel always said that, before you go out, look at yourself in the mirror and take off one thing, to avoid being overdressed. Governor Noem should have looked in the mirror, turned around and completely changed clothes.

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7. it is why I posted that particular pic

truly a shambolic melange of styles

FAIL!!