The ACLU is committed to monitoring legislators as throughout the redistricting process to ensure fair and equal representation for everyone – particularly for the state’s Indigenous population.

It’s impossible to overstate the harms the MMIP epidemic has had -- and continues to have -- on the lives of Native people across South Dakota and across the country.

Tribal sovereignty allows the tribes to operate these checkpoints within their land. Undermining that tribal sovereignty, that authority for the tribes to govern themselves, goes against the treaties the tribes have with the United States government.