PIERRE, (KCCR) — Since 2016, South Dakota legislative sessions have begun with addresses from the Governor, Supreme Court Chief Justice and a representative of one of South Dakota’s seven Native American Tribes. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Vice President Cyndi Weddell address the body Wednesday. She wants to see trade between Tribes in the sate renewed…
Weddell says her Tribe has benefited from cooperation with the Legislature…
Weddell wants to see that cooperation extended to enact the Indian Child Welfare Act….
Weddell says the Tribes support Governor Kristi Noem’s message from her State of the State address for keeping the freedom to farm and ranch in Indian Country.