Native tribes on banning Kristi Noem from reservations: ‘She’d be charged with trespassing’

Kristi Noem speaks in Rapid City, South Dakota, on 8 September 2023. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

While sifting through his work emails one February afternoon, Clyde Estes saw a message that dismayed him.

“I started reading it and was just shocked,” recalled Estes, chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. “It’s something you don’t expect to see.”