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Posts tagged as “Pine Ridge”

Hubbel Receives Mazacoin: No Law Broken, Just Time Wasted

GOP spin machine Pat Powers completely ignores the story of fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth committing yet another crime by spam-soliciting and accepting a campaign contribution from a foreign national. But Pat Powers's least favorite gubernatorial candidate, Lora Hubbel,…

Republicans Want Indians to Pay for Fighting for Voting Rights

So much for Indian-White reconciliation. Earlier this month Judge Karen Schreier dismissed Brooks v. Gant, an Indian voting-rights lawsuit brought by residents of the Pine Ridge reservation. The dismissal came only because the filing of the lawsuit forced Secretary of…

We Can’t Fix Indian Country?

Hat tip to Larry Kurtz! American Indians have problems with poverty, unemployment, and other social ills. (Violent conquest can do that to a people.) But something in South Dakota makes our Indians poorer than Indians elsewhere in America. What gives?…

Pine Ridge Grocery Store Takes Advantage of Non-Compete Clause?

Debra White Plume says her granddaughter was sickened by old meat sold by the Sioux Nation Shopping Center, the only grocery store on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In commentary on Censored News, White Plume says the problem is part capitalist…