Sarah Stacke

Members of the Cheyenne River Covid security team gather information from a motorist leaving the Cheyenne River Reservation on Highway 63 in South Dakota. In early spring, as the coronavirus raced across America, tribal leadership announced they would set up checkpoints on roads with access to the reservation. “We must protect our tribal members at all costs,” said Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier on the radio. Against the tribe’s rights as a sovereign Lakota nation, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem ordered the tribe to remove the barriers, a demand they have rejected. October 24, 2020.