The last South Dakota tribe to formally banish Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands is now the first to undo the restriction

FLANDREAU, S.D. — One tribe in South Dakota lifted its order banning Gov. Kristi Noem from its territories just days before the Republican was set to appear before a U.S. Senate committee on her nomination to head one of the federal government's largest agencies.

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has announced that they have removed their banishment of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe announced on Tuesday that the tribe’s executive committee voted to lift its banishment of Governor Kristi Noem.

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe lifted its banishment on Gov. Kristi Noem just days ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing to serve as secretary of Homeland Security.

Native tribe accepts Kristi Noem’s apology and lifts her banishment ahead of confirmation hearing - The governor was banned from all nine Native American reservations last year

The South Dakota governor was banished by all nine Native American tribes in South Dakota over comments she made last spring.

South Dakota tribe removes banishment of Gov. Kristi Noem as it expands clean energy ventures and tribal leaders push for reset in state relations.

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has removed the ban they had placed on Republican Gov. Kristi Noem. The ban was passed in May. In a release sent Wednesday, the Tribe says Noem met one of the stipulations in the banishment resolutions,

Gov. Kristi Noem was cut off from entering a wide swath of tribal lands in South Dakota early last year after making public comments that tribal leaders were catering to drug cartels on their reservations.