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Native Courts; Hispanic Ministry

Dakota Midday - 11/01/2007

On today’s Dakota Midday, host Paul Guggenheimer interviews with Chief Tribal Judge Lisa Adams who talks about her surprise ruling, ordering a New York Company called Native American Energy Group off the Pine Ridge Reservation in the wake of grassroots opposition to its presence. Two Native groups sued the company in tribal court, claiming it’s a front for uranium mining. Next, an interview with Sister Sheila Schnell of the Presentation Sisters of the Hispanic Ministry, in Sioux Falls, talking about All Saints Day or “Day of the Dead,” as it is observed in the Hispanic culture. In Segment 3 culture critic Robert Morast, of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, makes his weekly visit.




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