Apparently if you’re hired to defend someone the Tribe is good and mad at, you get the honor of being shunned:
A South Dakota tribe has barred a Rapid City-based defense lawyer from entering their land.
Oglala Lakota Tribe officials passed a resolution banning Rapid City lawyer Patrick Duffy from the Pine Ridge Reservation, after Duffy hired on to defend a Philip man charged with disorderly conduct for behavior toward Native Americans at a hockey game.
Tribal public information officer Kevin Yellow Bird Steele confirmed Thursday that the tribal ocuncil approved the resolution submitted by the Pass Creek District representatives on Feb. 24. He referred further inquiries to representatives from the district, who couldn’t be reached for comment.
I’m scratching my head at this one, as Duffy, who defended accused legislator Dan Sutton several years ago, is not someone you’d consider a right-winger. In fact he’d be the opposite.
Did Duffy deserve the evil eye from the tribe? Or is this a whole lot of silliness?
Silliness?
No, it’s ILLEGAL.
And likely a hate crime committed by the tribe.
No, it’s legal. Keep in mind they are like a third world country.
This is completely unenforceable. After all, who is going to set up road blocks and illegally search vehicles for this guy now that Russell Means is dead?
patrick duffy is one of the last people i’d interfere with in this state.
i think it’s just an initial negotiating position.
This is hilarious! Somebody finally acted in a more outrageous manner than Duffy. Let the clowns, both of them, perform!
Nailed it.
Nothing about this situation is hilarious. Racial tensions are growing. The rest of us in SD should care.
Well, with a race-baiter for a President and Al not-so-Sharpton on MSNBC, who is surprised.
No Dohicky, it is hilarious. The only thing funnier is your constant pandering to insure you get your name in the paper. How did that Armenian deal go for you?
The Armenian thing worked out fine for me in the House. The Senate buckled and sided with those who deny holocausts. Just yesterday FOX news reported a partnership between Hamas and Turkey. Sad that one foreign official can drop in here and hoodwink Senators.
And to you, put your name out there if you want to play ball.
it is regrettable that the current political situation stops the redress of grievances, whenever it happens.
Well stated, Dowager Grantham.
“The Senate buckled and sided with those who deny holocausts.”
Which lawmakers DENY holocausts?
You, Rep. Hickey have been called out. Either prove your wild claim or apologize. NOW.
Enough of your hysterics and character assassinations–WHO in the legislature denied holocausts? Give us the names NOW
or shut up.
Give us your name.
I said they sided with the deniers. They are all good people but they sided with holocaust deniers from Turkey.
Oh, and names are on the LRC website under HCR1009.
43 states passed this resolution calling it a genocide. 2 Turkish officials apparently hold a lot more sway in SD than anyone thought.
Be sure to share your name, or shut up.
Why are our legislators even dealing with the atrocities that occurred to the Armenians? Isn’t this a State Department issue or we contact our US Senators, Representatives and President to deal with this?
“Why are our legislators even dealing with the atrocities that occurred to the Armenians”
VERY good points and reasonable explanations why our legislators voted as they did.
But Rep. Hickey wasn’t satisfied with those possibilities–HE DEFAMED THEM and their motives.
“They are all good people but they sided with holocaust deniers from Turkey.”
What are their names?
NOW.
Which people were denying the Armenian holocaust?
Yes, we know which legislators voted for/against the resolution, but YOU said that they voted with DENIERS.
WHO are these deniers that influenced our legislators?
WHERE are the legislators’ statements that their votes were cast in union with the deniers?
Provide the names, or just admit what you did, or shut up.
I was not the one who defamed those who disagree with me–YOU DID. I have nothing to account for–YOU DO.
Do you folks have a reading comprehension problem?
The turk officials who dropped in here are holocaust deniers. They swayed the Senate this my comment, the Senate sided with holocaust deniers.
Put your name out there if you feel so strongly about something and want to “call me out NOW.”
I don’t care for a moment if you don’t like me. Join the club. They dislike me at Madville Times too on most days. When are you going to grow up and debate ideas instead of anonymously going after my motives or person? It gets old.
This would be a better blog if names were required and respect. As is, with the exception of Hoffman, Schoenbeck, Jones and me, it’s a string of anonymous people talking to each other.
rep. hickey, i don’t know why you’re a huge troll target today, but most of the rest of us understood everything about the armenian question and the ramifications. you got that going for you. genocide is no joke.
Back to the question. Why is a state legislature dealing with this? This is a responsibility of the Federal government.
yeah, like forest management or prairie dog control.
We have an Armenian community in South Dakota and this 100th anniversary is important to them. It’s also important because they are still killing Christians over there. The Governor makes trips to China and we have various national and foreign policy resolutions all the time. South Dakota is part of a global community now and it matters that 43 states are doing this resolution. If these resolutions were stupid and meaningless the Ambassador of Turkey would not have called Daugaard’s office or sent his General Consulate. I heard the comment “we don’t have a dog in this fight” from a legislator.” It reminded me of Martin Niemoller’s comment: “they came first but I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.” In other words, he didn’t have a dog in that fight. His statement ends: “then they came for me– and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Be glad your legislators aren’t just thinking about coyotes and corn up here. We shouldn’t be siding with the revisionist history narrative of a nation that was in the news this week for partnering with Hamas against Israel and the Jews. Turkey ranks near zero on the religious liberty index.
One additional thought: when some jihadist shoots up a US military base yelling allahu akbar! –– it’s not okay for our elected leaders to call it “workplace violence” or anything less than it is. In this case, we shy’d away from calling the annihilation of 1.5 of one race a genocide. Back on the topic of this post… a SD comparable would be to called Wounded Knee a battle not a massacre.
point well made. thanks rep. hickey
“They swayed the Senate this my comment, the Senate sided with holocaust deniers.”
Which senators were swayed by the deniers?
You’ve PURPOSELY conflated opposition to this resolution with denying the basis of the resolution–why?
You’ve made the accusation, STAND BEHIND IT. Which senators opposed this resolution BECAUSE they were swayed by the [unnamed] Turks?
Name them.
This is DESPICABLE, Rep. Hickey.
It’s NO DIFFERENT than arguing that those who voted against the authorization of force in Iraq did so because they sided with Saddam Hussein. IT’s ABSURD.
I for one support the resolution, but think it’s a waste of time but the legislature wastes time all the time, so,..
Rep. Hickey: NAME the senators who voted against this resolution because they were swayed by Turks.
It’s an EASY question, unless you simply LIED by speculating on why your opponents did what they did.
Somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if Dohicky somehow pushed aside a local Rapid City pastor or organizer at the march to get on TV or the press to get exposure.
I won’t be there but I wish I could be. Other church leaders should be there. From my end of the state I’ll continue to push the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation commission like the one that helped S. Africa get past the atrocities and racial tensions after apartheid.
You have gone off the deep end. Comparing SD to South Africa. Now that will get your name in the paper!
just craves attention
Sigh. You speak from ignorance. There have been 40 such commissions worldwide since the first and most famous one in S. Africa. They have gone by a variety of names. The one in Peru was called a historical clarification commission. They have worked to move societies out of a painful past and contentious present into a good future together. You can continue to be stuck and stubborn your present attitude and mindset but we are all worse off for it.
You do know don’t you the media calls me not the other way around? My view is we need leaders who also lead the conversation and are willing to engage the public on blogs and in the press. If you want someone who sits there and goes along and does and saying nothing noteworthy please help that someone beat me this upcoming election.
What do these commissions actually do? Assign blame and shame? Officially recognize the past.. I just don’t get it. I’ve never done anything to a NA. My ancestors were being persecuted in Russia when Sioux were fighting against the Federal Goverment and attempting to committ genocide against other tribes. You’re not a doing a very good job of selling South Dakotans that we should follow you down this path. Convince me preacher…
You should read up on them. They bring out things that fester and sour relations today. Similar to counseling, they address root problems on both sides. My relatives were in Ireland in 1890. But the problems exist today. Money won’t fix it. Neither will a government program. Time doesn’t heal this stuff. Racism is deeply rooted here and it goes both ways and there are things driving it. Leadership is needed on both sides.
the problem sir is that state and local officials in sd have learned how to send things to committees to make them stall out or evaporate over time. it seems we still have committees for the same old problems. elected leaders on both sides need to decide how to settle things.
Disingenuous at best, you have figured out how to get that call and have refined it to a fine art of self aggrandizing. Do you really think you are fooling anybody?
Duffy anti-Indian is crazy.
If we truly treated Tribal Lands as autonomous, Independant, one Nation, with a sovereign government they could ask for and receive millions more then they are getting today.
Another march should solve the problem.
All this fuss over spilled beer…
It’s not about spilled beer or thrown beer and Ferguson was isn’t about whether his hands were up or down. When conditions are bone dry, even the slightest ignition point starts a wildfire. My interest is to deal with the bone dry conditions in this state as related to racial matters. A US Civil Rights probe looking into the beer bucking incident isn’t helpful. 500+ law enforcement hours were burned up investigating incident of disorderly conduct – making it the most investigated incident of disorderly conduct in the history of our state. There is nothing more to see there. The problems are deeper.
Beer chucking
Forgive the typos. It’s a small phone.
Although, beer bucking does sound appealing.
1. agreed that the rc incident is about more than spilled beer. it was a big setback to the slow process of building better relationships.
2. if i was posting from a phone and liable to hit wrong letters, not sure i’d use any word with “…. ucking” in it.
For those of you who don’t know, Rep. Hickey is trying to unite all of us based on pagan religions. Some call it “New Age”. He is becoming more and more popular with the New Age Theocrats at Madville. And I am not just trying to be funny here.
what?
It is called ecumenicalism.
While I won’t go as far as Sibby, but too much “ecumenicallism” is evil.
Rep. Hickey’s efforts are well beyond what could be described as fair or reasonable. But, that’s his point I think–either you’re with Hickey or you’re a despicable “denier”.
I am the unusual position of agreeing with Sibby. He nailed it.
i’m in the unusual position of backing hickey’s position. there is a christian requirement made of each of us applying to our personal lives, but as u-s citizens there is a requirement born of our system of government to leave sectarian and theocratic concerns out of the government arena. it’s more than ‘ecumenism’ (which i always take to mean catholics dropping in at the lutheran potluck) it’s a vital approach to the fair dispensation of government and the preservation of liberty by the understanding of its workings. there are fine non-christian debates here about limiting government, and fine non-sectarian debates about humanitarian morality and what that should look like from our government. rep. hickey takes up these challenges and i like that.
I’ve always been amazed at how the obvious double-standards work on the rez. Imagine the outcry if we banned one of their citizens from entering any non-tribal land in South Dakota!! The press would scramble to find words stronger than racism.
Also, why does the tribe get to pick and choose which SD laws they want to abide by? It seems that whenever the state passes, or changes a law, they get to decide if they want to implement it on the rez, or not.
I truly believe that the only way to end the racial tension in SD would be to eliminate reservations. No land changes ownership, there’s just no longer a designated reservation. As long as we draw borders, how will we ever become one?
The double standard is being promoted by those who normally agree with Duffy politically. It is an application of Marxism, but instead of the wealthy oppressing poor wage earners, it is promoted as whites oppressing non-whites. It is what I call cultural Neo-Marxism. Don’t try explaining that to the Madvillites. You will get bullied and asked to leave. If you don’t, Cory will use his spam filter on you.
“It is an application of Marxism, but instead of the wealthy oppressing poor wage earners, it is promoted as whites oppressing non-whites.”
Exactly.
White guilt ridden folks like Hickey leave out the non-whites stealing from the hard-working white folks from NE who visit the Rose Casino mere yards from the border; thereby DEVASTING hundreds of NE families by taking advantage of mental illness.
Hickey’s world view:
White Clay = bad
Rose Casino = payback
I suspect we can all understand that this is outrageous behavior by that one guy from Phillip, but the Tribe going after Pat Duffy for representing the guy is……. Strange, odd, not sure what to grab. Last time we saw this in South Dakota, and proudly liberal Duffy may be surprised by his company, that same tribe disbarred Bill Janklow!
If Pat Duffy isn’t good enough to visit the Ridge, neither am I. I will drive around the Ridge when in Western South Dakota and pretend all issues on the Ridge are fictional.
Really? it’s not fictional when a parent loses a kid to suicide or any other thing. And Pine ridge is wrong to ban people. Come on kids, let’s get along.
Sure. Because you frequently drive through one of the reservations.
And Rep. Hickey will tell us that he has a friend or two from the rez.
He feels.
does this guy ever sponsor legislation that actually passes? It’s all about him and being in the news
who lit your fuse? shut up already. what the hell is wrong with you?
Thanks .
It’s hickey derangement syndrome. The mere sight of my name puts him in fits.
The major political parties have problems with extremists from the flanks driving issues, why would we think it’s any different in tribal politics?
Before we get to wrapped up with defending Duffy it would be well to remember this:http://www.kotatv.com/news/south-dakota-news/democrats-accused-rounds/29022310
i don’t think anyone is defending duffy, the tribes are inserting themselves into the issue with their vote. i don’t think its anything that duffy can’t handle himself.
What’s with this @#^$% spellcheck? too
Sometimes, asking one self that question internally is appropriate. And so is turning off spell check. It’s a marvelous invention for self torture.
Two days later and that breaking news juggernaut RCJ still not mentioning this.
Duffy should move to dismiss the charges against his client for the reason that the tribe’s action in denying him access to potential witnesses deprives the defendant of his due process rights. If I were the judge I would grant the motion.