Lower Brule Sioux Tribe

The village of Lower Brule on the Lower Brule Reservation, near the Big Bend of the Missouri River. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

Lawsuit brings tribe a seat on county commission

BY: - December 7, 2022

A county commissioner in South Dakota will resign and be replaced by a Native American tribal member as the result of a voting rights lawsuit. The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe filed the lawsuit against Lyman County in May. Much of the tribe’s reservation is within the county, on the western bank of the Missouri River […]