Kristi Noem, Trump's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, was banned from entering tribal lands last year after ...

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe lifted its banishment on Gov. Kristi Noem just days ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing ...

The South Dakota governor was banished by all nine Native American tribes in South Dakota over comments she made last spring.

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Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has been unbanned from one tribe in South Dakota after every tribe in the state banned her last year. Days before her confirmation hearing to lead the Department of ...

The farmer and small-business owner turned elected official has made headlines for being a possible vice presidential ...

South Dakota’s tribes barred the governor from setting foot on their land after she said drug cartels operate there — an ...

The last South Dakota tribe to formally banish Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands is now the first to undo the restriction. In a letter to Noem written Tuesday, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe ...

Renville also pointed to South Dakota's unique place in the U.S. political sphere, with Noem set to lead the Department of ...

Tribal leaders are ready for a new South Dakota governor. Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garrett Renville delivered the ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is set for her Senate confirmation hearing on Friday.