Bureau of Indian Affairs police recruits in South Dakota need a training facility closer to home, the state's junior senator says.| South Dakota Searchlight
Tribal leaders say Gov. Kristi Noem's talk of drug cartels leans on racist tropes to target their communities for a statewide problem.| South Dakota Searchlight
Yankton Sioux Tribe officials said Wednesday they know where the drugs on their tribal lands are coming from.| South Dakota Searchlight
A 155-year-old treaty is central to defining what law enforcement services the United States is obligated to provide to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. But questions still remain about what that entails and what it means for the rest of Indian Country.| South Dakota Searchlight
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe said its president "informed the governor that a ban from our territories is imminent."| South Dakota Searchlight
Gov. Kristi Noem used a speech before a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature to call the U.S.-Mexico border a “war zone” controlled by drug cartels that also use South Dakota’s reservation communities as a home base for drug distribution.| South Dakota Searchlight