South Dakotan Miscellany

Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux tribe in SD, is my hero. Why?

“To me, it is now a question of sovereignty,” she said to me last week. “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.” (indianz.com)

That is one pissed-off woman, and I say more power to her. (Seriously: of everyone who's been screwed over by various American governments, I think that a Native American woman from South Dakota has a pretty solid claim to some righteous anger.)