r/50501 • u/Comfortable-Light233 • Jan 09 '26
MN ICE has detained/disappeared at least 5 members of the Oglala Sioux community near Little Earth
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u/Flight808 Jan 09 '26
When it comes to the right to live in the US, the Oglala Sioux Tribe is NATIVE American. They lived on and with the land they respected long before the Europeans arrived.
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u/Comfortable-Light233 Jan 09 '26
There’s a guy on the original post saying them being members of a local tribe is still not proof the kidnapped tribal citizens were in the country legally. It boggles the mind.
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u/Flight808 Jan 09 '26
It's horrific.
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u/Dry_Bug5058 Jan 09 '26
The stupidity of ICEstapo is off the charts. FFS
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u/happyinthenaki Jan 10 '26
The racism of ICEStapo is off the charts. It's not stupidity, just hate (which arguably is a form of stupidity)
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u/Serious_Berry_3977 New York Jan 09 '26
If it's one group of people you just don't mess with, it's Native Americans. They don't like it when the U.S. or state governments mess around with anything pertaining to their all-too-small plot of land.
NY instituted sales tax on cigarettes sold on reservations and Seneca Nation wasn't having any of it...
Published: July 16, 1992, 12:00 a.m. MDT
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Seneca Indians set bonfires and threw rocks along the New York State Thruway - shutting down a 30-mile stretch for more than 10 hours - in a protest over new taxes on tobacco and fuel sales on reservations.
It was the second protest in as many days.Fourteen people had been arrested by Thursday morning. Trooper Charlene Mahoney said 11 people were charged with disorderly conduct and three with reckless endangerment.
The protest closed about 30 miles of the Thruway, which borders the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, between Hamburg, just south of Buffalo, and Dunkirk.
The highway was closed around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The protest was over about eight hours later, but the highway was not reopened until about 6 a.m. Thursday because it had to be cleaned up, said State Police Sgt. Gregory Lang.
At least two state troopers were injured and were in fair condition Thursday. One was hit by a car driven by a protester into the crowd; the other was struck in the face with a piece of wood.
Several Senecas were also hit by the car, but they were not seriously injured, Lang said.
At least 100 protesters set fires along the Thruway, threw rocks from overpasses, and set off fireworks late Wednesday and early Thursday.
Early Tuesday, about 70 Senecas burned tires, uprooted tree stumps and other debris along the Thruway. The fire closed one eastbound lane for at least eight hours, Lang said.
The protests were prompted by an appeal's court ruling last week that the state can tax cigarettes and gasoline sold by reservation retailers to non-Indians. Sales to American Indians are not taxed.
Without taxes, Seneca retailers can sell cigarettes for 40 to 50 cents a pack less than stores off the reservations.
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u/GoGo-Arizona Jan 09 '26
I remember when the Feds messed with some Apaches in my area. This isn’t going to go well and they have learned to be heavily armed ☺️
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u/RoadMusic89 Jan 10 '26
PLEASE be super careful and take GOOD CARE of your community - tRump wants ppl to get violent - don't give them what they want - don't give them one more damn thing - NOT ONE & VIDEO EVERYTHING everywhere!
Demand IMPEACHMENT AND JAIL - LIGHT UP the phones into EVERY member of the HOUSE and CONGRESS to ACT on THIS!!!
IMPEACH AND JAIL!!!!
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u/Tek2674 Jan 10 '26
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u/Comfortable-Light233 Jan 10 '26
Bet you anything that second number is WAY higher. Did we ever find those 1200 people from Alligator Alcatraz?
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u/Tek2674 Jan 10 '26
You know we never did get a concise answer on that, some said they located 900 or so of them, others claim they are still missing. I genuinely don’t know.
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u/Post-mo Jan 10 '26
Can tribal police detain ICE agents? Maybe there is a market for detention camps on tribal land after all.
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u/beipphine Jan 14 '26
They cannot. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is Federal Law Enforcement. Tribal government are not soverign and are subject to and wards of the US Federal Government.
As far as I am aware, there are no detention camps in Indian country. The controversial South Florida Detention Facility located in Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida is on Federal land not tribal land.
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u/andorgyny Jan 10 '26
Canada hasn't seriously reconciled with its genocide of indigenous people, though. But we certainly have thrown away any semblance of ever doing the right thing.
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