South Dakota Sioux Refuse to Dismantle ‘Illegal’ COVID-19 Checkpoints

Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier talks to reporters outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington on Feb. 28, 2017. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Sioux tribes in South Dakota are refusing to remove COVID-19 checkpoints they set up on roads that pass through their land.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem wrote to tribal leaders last week saying that checkpoints set up by the Cheyenne River and Oglala Sioux tribes were illegal.