{"id":12734,"date":"2006-03-27T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/south-dakota-indian-reservation-steps-up\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T23:55:00","slug":"south-dakota-indian-reservation-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/south-dakota-indian-reservation-steps-up\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Indian Reservation Steps Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/03\/06\/sd.abortionban.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">South Dakota&rsquo;s recent draconion law banning most abortions<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/news\/2006\/03\/1809859.php\" target=\"_blank\">South Dakota Indian tribe decided to take action<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, was incensed. A former nurse and healthcare giver she was very angry that a state body made up mostly of white males, would make such a stupid law against women.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To me, it is now a question of sovereignty,&rdquo; she said [to reporter Tom Giago] last week. &ldquo;I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/health\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114315273705531501?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to South Dakota&rsquo;s recent draconion law banning most abortions, a South Dakota Indian tribe decided to take action: The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, was incensed. A former nurse and healthcare giver she was very angry that a state body made up mostly of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/south-dakota-indian-reservation-steps-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Dakota Indian Reservation Steps Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}