Democratic Representative Kevin Killer, who represents part of the Pine Ridge Reservation, is backing the name change to Oglala County from one based on white conquest. Receiving strong support both at the ballot box and in a petition drive leading up to the election, Killer helped get the issue on the county ballot in November.
“We had an 80 percent vote on changing the name from Shannon County to Oglala Lakota County and, before that process we had to take around petitions and we had to collect around 15 percent of the total voters but we actually got 25 percent of all registered voters in Oglala Lakota County which was a feat onto itself,” says Killer. The name change resolution is headed next to the Senate floor. [Charles Michael Ray, SDPB]
President Obama is expected to visit South Dakota's Indian Country before he leaves office.
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