The election of GOPer John Thune forced the Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place into bankruptcy.
Flouting the Indian Child Welfare Act South Dakota has been seizing thousands of American Indian children then placing them in the white foster care industry.
From my end of the state I’ll continue to push the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation commission like the one that helped S. Africa get past the atrocities and racial tensions after apartheid. There have been 40 such commissions worldwide since the first and most famous one in S. Africa. They have gone by a variety of names. The one in Peru was called a historical clarification commission. They have worked to move societies out of a painful past and contentious present into a good future together. You can continue to be stuck and stubborn your present attitude and mindset but we are all worse off for it. My view is we need leaders who also lead the conversation and are willing to engage the public on blogs and in the press. If you want someone who sits there and goes along and does and saying nothing noteworthy please help that someone beat me this upcoming election. [comment, Rep. Steve Hickey]
Pine Ridge to Selma: Civil rights http://t.co/RTsvRpuZvw via @argusleader
— stevehickey (@stevehickey) March 5, 2015State/Tribal Relations Day at the Capitol... "there is a new opportunity and recognition that things are not right" pic.twitter.com/FYEfxX3n9u
— stevehickey (@stevehickey) February 27, 2015
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