Tributes have poured into Facebook mourning the loss of a Whitehorse woman Shawn LeBeau, also known to community members as Shawn Lamb, was found two nights ago after a search by relatives, friends, community members, and officials. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement says, Lamb was found deceased east of Timber Lake late Tuesday evening, she had been missing since Saturday the 17th, there has been no official word on her cause of death.
A ruling by the supreme court threatens tribal sovereignty say tribal officials, indigenous leaders called on congress to reverse the supreme court ruling that expands the state’s ability to prosecute crimes on tribal lands. Witnesses told the house of natural resources sub committee Tuesday, that the kastra werto ruling trampled on 200 years of legal president and tribal jurisdiction in addition to making it harder for them to pursue cases of domestic violence or, missing and murdered indigenous people.
A judge in Minnesota has ruled that sheriff’s officials had no right to block access to a camp set up in opposition to the Enbridge three oil pipeline in an order Tuesday. Hubbard County district judge Janna Oustead ruled the pipeline protesters were using a private driveway not a county trail to access camp namawog near managa in June 2021. Hubbard County Sherriff, Cory Ox served notice on American Indian activist Winona LaDeauc and Tara Houska who manages the site that, the road to the camp was a county owned trail which would be barricaded and that those who drove on it would be arrested.
