reminder to EVERYONE that Kristi Noem got her foot in the door by being EXTREMELY anti-Plains Native cultures specifically anti-Lakota. Her career started with extreme hatred for Lakota and fearmongering about Ghost Dancing and Violent Natives tm. Everyone wouldn't be so shocked about ICE targeting Native people if they saw https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251493304/most-of-south-dakotas-tribes-have-banned-kristi-noem-from-their-land-heres-why
"but Bee? why is ghost dancing 'bad' in her eyes? what even is it?"
demonizing a religion that only wants to bring back murdered relatives and justifying *actual* war crimes against elderly and children and women is disgusting. and totally on brand.
anyway after being on Plains powwow YouTube for a while I can attest to fearmongering about peyotism and "I hear when they hold powwows they kill white people after" and "they deserve violence since they went to war against other tribes and killed children" and most comment sections under Plains videos are like this. If you know any Plains peoples please do not shut up about this.
