Oglala Sioux leader not pleased with boycott

RAPID CITY –– A resolution passed by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council erroneously listed Rapid City Attorney Patrick Duffy as a writer for the Rapid City Journal and advised stores selling the Journal on the reservation to refrain from doing so. The resolution also called for the Rapid City Journal to be banned from the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Tribal Vice President Tom Poor Bear was not comfortable with the contents of the resolution.

“First of all, I don’t like to be told what I can or cannot read,” Poor Bear said at a meeting of the LNI Board held at the Prairie Edge Trading Post last week. “Second, Patrick Duffy is a lawyer and he doesn’t pick his clients, they pick him. Every one accused of a crime has the right to choose a lawyer and an attorney cannot be held responsible for the alleged crimes of his client. He is only there to defend him.”

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