Oops: Gordon Howie's media Potemkin village just alienated a good chunk of its Christian American exceptionalist audience. Howie mouthpiece Brad Ford* posts without critique an article declaring Americans who adopt foreign children racist colonialists: The message of intercountry adoption ideology…
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Former South Dakotan John Hinderaker issues a heavy rebuttal (read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) to what he calls NPR's "disgraceful" three-part investigation of South Dakota's treatment of Native Americans in its foster care system. Hinderaker challenges the…
Three weeks ago, I suggested that mutual opposition to the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline could restart Anglo-Lakota reconciliation in South Dakota. Lakota activist Debra White Plume recognizes the historical parallel that could join our hoops with the Lakota:…
It's just one handshake... ...just one clap on the shoulder, one smile (well, two smiles)... ...but maybe instead of fighting each other, Indians and whites in South Dakota can work on reconciliation by finding enemies we need to fight together...…
Mr. Gerlach's first guest column this week drew an argument from one of my fellow beneficiaries of white conquest and privilege that Indians raped and killed us and each other, so we conquerors need not feel bad for raping and…
In the "never hurts to ask" department, Ron Volesky, one of my favorite liberal Democrats, has asked conservative Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard to appoint him to the South Dakota Supreme Court. Volesky has an interview June 20. Volesky's resume: Volesky…
The Huron mayoral recall push should be a simple matter of right and wrong. Wrong: Mayor Dave McGirr and his fellow city commissioners, who suspended police chief Doug Schmitt for exercising his First Amendment rights and apparently drove him to…
Bigotry check, everyone! The following "joke" has been circulating on various conservative fora. Madison City Commissioner Nick Abraham posted it on his Facebook wall yesterday. This morning the Muslim Brotherhood warned the United States that if United States meddling in…