#Minneapolis: #Dakota and #Lakota #Oyate Set Up Lodges Outside #WhippleBuilding

By #NiskíthePrayerCamp, #CensoredNews, Feb. 10, 2026

"Niskíthe Prayer Camp is honored to have been asked to share our tipis for this endeavor and we plan to work to supply our Dakota relatives in Minneapolis with supplies that they will need to continue this occupation and fulfill their demands for the return of #FortSnelling.

"Despite being visited yesterday by both state park rangers and Minneapolis police, our Dakota relatives survived their first night in the tipi encampment at Fort Snelling, a former internment (read 'concentration') camp for Indigenous people upon which the federal #ICE detention center in the Whipple Building is now situated. The Dakota want it back, and we plan to help them!

The Red Lake Nation said, 'The Dakota and Lakota Oyate have set up lodges outside the Whipple Building.' "

Source [keep an eye out for updates]:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02/minneapolis-dakota-and-lakota-oyate-set.html

#CensoredNews #Occupy #Resistance #LandBack #HonorTheTreaties #IndigenousNews #ResistICE #IndigenousResistance

#StandingRock and #Sisseton Wahpeton #Lakotas Seized by #ICE in Minnesota

#NativeAmericans are being detained throughout the United States illegally. Protests continue after the murders of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Jan. 25, 2026

"The Standing Rock Lakota Nation reports that a tribal member is being detained after being seized by ICE in Minnesota. Another #Lakota, Sisseton Wahpeton #Oyate, was arrested by ICE. He was located safe, but bruised. He was standing near the site where Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was murdered by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. The Sisseton tribal member was among those present who was arrested. He was released without being charged with any crime.

"Other witnesses standing near the site of the crime, the murder of Alex Pretti, say they fear for their lives, and have gone into hiding. Federal agents are reported hunting down the #witnesses to arrest them.

"Northern Cheyenne President Gene Small in Montana reports back from the Minneapolis Indian community."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/standing-rock-lakota-seized-by-ice-in.html

#USPol #ICEOut #ICEOutMinnesota #ReaderSupportedNews #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity #StandingRockLakota #SissetonWahpeton #NativeAmericansAreAmericans

#CheyenneRiver #LakotaNation Bans #ICE in #SouthDakota

By #CheyenneRiverLakota Chairman #RymanLeBeau, via #CensoredNews, Jan. 18, 2026

"Hau Relatives,

By resolution at the January 16, 2026 Special Session Council approved to ban ICE from entering the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.

We will defend our #sovereignty and protect our community always. #Lakota #Oyate have always been here. #StayWarm, #StaySafe. Anpetu washte yuha po. Hechetu."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/cheyenne-river-lakota-nation-bans-ice.html

#ICESucks #NativeAmericans #ICEOut #KristiNoem #KrustiGnome #ICEOutForGood #FirstNations #IndigenousNews #TribalSovereignty #NativeAmericansAreAmericans

Oyate - Oyáte Wamáyaŋkapo

https://tube.pol.social/w/omdqZCD7Ea41GT8G2CDebS

#Native leaders draft bill to regain some of sacred #BlackHills

Tribal and treaty council representatives hope proposed legislative language to return federal lands in #SouthDakota's Black Hills to #Lakota people can be turned into a Congressional bill

by Amelia Schafer, Dec 2, 2024

FORT YATES, N.D. – "The Black Hills are not for sale and never will be was the central uniting message discussed during a meeting at the Prairie Knights Casino in Fort Yates, N.D. on the Standing Rock Reservation.

Representatives from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, a group of Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation elders and various treaty councils gathered on Nov. 13 to formulate a plan for regaining land in the Black Hills.

"The group met to discuss the He Sapa Restoration Act, which includes a formal declaration from the #Oyate (nation) and the tribal governments to demand that the United States return federal land in the Black Hills to the #OcetiSakowin people. The group hopes to introduce the bill in 2025.

"The bill would not affect the titles of private lands. Though those lands would be cataloged as part of the land identification process, they would remain in possession of the title holders.

"'Today we’ve gathered to discuss the Black Hills,' Standing Rock Vice-Chairman Frank Jameson said. 'This fight has been ongoing for many decades before us and it will continue after us."

Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/leaders-draft-bill-to-regain-some-of-sacred-black-hills

#CheyenneRiverSioux #CrowCreekSioux #LowerBruleSioux #OglalaSioux #RosebudSiouxTribe #SissetonWahpetonOyate #StandingRockSioux #SpiritLakeSioux #LandBack #SacredBlackHills #ProtectTheSacred

We all hope you had a safe and fantastic #Halloween!

We would love for anyone in the #Oyate to share your photos of the #HalloweenParades!

Send them to [email protected] with who the photo credit should go to and which parade they were from.

*The West River Eagle pays for photo submissions!

A #SouthDakota tribe banned Gov. #KristiNoem from a reservation over her #USMexicoBorder remarks

By TRISHA AHMED
February 3, 2024

"A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the #PineRidgeReservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send #RazorWire and security personnel to #Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.

“'Due to the safety of the #Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the #OglalaSioux Tribe!” Tribe President #FrankStarComesOut said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.

"#StarComesOut accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.

"Many of those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are #IndigenousPeople from places like #ElSalvador, #Guatemala and #Mexico who come 'in search of jobs and a better life,' the tribal leader added.

"'They don’t need to be put in cages, separated from their children like during the Trump Administration, or be cut up by razor wire furnished by, of all places, South Dakota,' he said.

"Star Comes Out also addressed #Noem’s remarks in the speech to lawmakers Wednesday in which she said a gang calling itself the Ghost Dancers is murdering people on the Pine Ridge Reservation and is affiliated with border-crossing cartels that use South Dakota reservations to spread drugs throughout the Midwest.

"Star Comes Out said he took deep offense at her reference, saying the #GhostDance is one of the Oglala Sioux’s “most sacred ceremonies,' 'was used with blatant disrespect and is insulting to our Oyate.'"

Read more:

https://apnews.com/article/oglala-sioux-reservation-governor-ban-south-dakota-9f811bbd1ffaadf979e4353ad6e961ad

#IndigenousNews #SiouxNation #Oglala