{"id":22431,"date":"2022-03-23T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=22431"},"modified":"2022-03-23T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:02:48","slug":"harold-frazier-no-indians-allowed-even-on-our-own-homelands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/03\/23\/harold-frazier-no-indians-allowed-even-on-our-own-homelands\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Frazier: &#8216;No Indians allowed&#8217; &#8212; even on our own homelands"},"content":{"rendered":" <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/08\/16\/harold-frazier-native-history-gutted-in-school-curriculum\/haroldfrazier-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" data-attachment-id=\"14891\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/08\/16\/harold-frazier-native-history-gutted-in-school-curriculum\/haroldfrazier-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12\/haroldfrazier-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1919\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7M3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1571873632&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;5000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Harold Frazier\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Harold Frazier. Photo by &lt;A href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevin_Abourezk&quot;&gt;Kevin Abourezk&lt;\/A&gt; &lt;A href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevin_Abourezk&quot;&gt;&lt;I aria-hidden=true class=&quot;fab fa-twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;\/I&gt;&lt;\/A&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12\/haroldfrazier-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12\/haroldfrazier-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Harold Frazier\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-14891\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Harold Frazier. Photo by <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevin_Abourezk\">Kevin Abourezk<\/A> <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevin_Abourezk\"><I aria-hidden=true class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/I><\/A><\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Statement on banning Indians from the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, March 23, 2022<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Harold Frazier<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Chairman, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe  <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRSTChairman\"><I aria-hidden=true class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/I><\/A><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=https:\/\/www.cheyenneriversiouxtribe.org><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> cheyenneriversiouxtribe.org<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nEAGLE BUTTE, South Dakota &#8212;  On the March 19, 2022, a young man was seriously injured at the Grand Gateway Hotel on LaCrosse Street in Rapid City, South Dakota. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAfterward a statement was made by a family member who owned and operated this hotel stating, \u201c<a href=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/23\/hotel-staff-quit-in-protest-after-owner-bans-native-americans\/>We will no long[er] allow any Native American on property. Or in Cheers Sports Bar<\/a>.\u201d \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThis person then goes to say ranchers and other travelers will receive a special rate of $59.00 a night. The owners also own other businesses in Rapid City and I am sure we are treated the same at all of their businesses.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In addition to blaming the mayor, police chief, sheriff, candidate for sheriff and the court system, a local hotel bans all Native Americans for a shooting a few days ago on hotel property. Neither the shooting or Grand Gateway\u2019s response to it reflect our community values. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vA9oXND0qi\">pic.twitter.com\/vA9oXND0qi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Steve Allender (@Just_Allender) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Just_Allender\/status\/1506022476694040578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nI condemn this statement for all of the racism and discrimination this imposes on us. This type of behavior will no longer be tolerated in this day and age.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nNot too long ago an Indian was murdered when someone shot him point blank in a bar in this very city. You did not hear us condemn a whole race of people so don\u2019t condemn our people. Statements like this shows your feelings about all Indians. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIt is foolish to attack a race of people and not all of the issues affecting the society in which we live. This includes racism. The members of the Great Sioux Nation who visit our sacred Black Hills are often subject to this kind of behavior. Those members that choose to live on our treaty territory are often treated as a problem, no matter how we choose to live. \r\n<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><P><\/P>\r\nWhen those wagons first began their way to break treaties and settle on our territory we were classified as lesser beings and genocide was justified as such. The words uttered by this person is a reminder to my people that this is still the case. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\"><strong>No Indians allowed<\/strong>.<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nI demand an immediate apology from this person to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota territory with clear and public consequences. To those who will try to distance themselves from these words and thoughts to save face and business I say to you that it is unfair to be generalized and every Lakota knows how you feel. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<em>Hecetu elo<\/em>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM><A \r\nhref=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRSTChairman\">Harold Frazier<\/A> is \r\nserving his second consecutive term as chairman of the <a href=https:\/\/www.cheyenneriversiouxtribe.org>Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe<\/a>, an Indian nation based in South Dakota. He also serves as president of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen\u2019s Association. He previously served as chair and vice chair of his tribe and as an area vice president for the National Congress of American Indians. <\/em><HR>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When those wagons first began their way to break treaties and settle on our territory we were classified as lesser beings and genocide was justified as such.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[600,1554,176,500,47,61,147,98,154,6],"class_list":["post-22431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-opinion","tag-cheyenne-river-sioux","tag-discrimination","tag-genocide","tag-harold-frazier","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-rapid-city","tag-south-dakota","tag-treaties","tag-urban-indians","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12\/haroldfrazier-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-5PN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}