At her Friday confirmation hearing as Trump’s pick for DHS secretary, Gov. Kristi Noem made rambling remarks suggesting she has good working relationships with her state’s tribes:
NOEM: I offered to train federal law enforcement officers, BIA officers, but also their tribal police in South Dakota, at no cost to our tribes. And it’s been an incredible, powerful tool that we’ve had to build relationships. Those tribal police had the chance to go through academy with the local – maybe deputies from the counties and the state highway patrol troopers, that were coming on board, and those relationships have built partnerships in our state that we didn’t have before.
It’s true that she set up a program to train tribal law enforcers. But she’s hardly been a good partner with the nine tribes in South Dakota. If anything, she seems to have gone out of her way to antagonize them. From South Dakota Searchlight:
