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“The BIA has a responsibility to help our people, and I don’t see that happening here,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said during a press conference Saturday.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe has announced a state of emergency due to increasing crime.

“The BIA has a responsibility to help our people, and I don’t see that happening here,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said during a press conference Saturday.

“The BIA has a responsibility to help our people, and I don’t see that happening here,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said.

“The BIA has a responsibility to help our people, and I don’t see that happening here,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said during a press conference Saturday.

South Dakota tribes fight to recover from massive winter storm

"We're fighting a losing battle," says Oglala Sioux Tribe's president as the reservation is cut off by impassable roads.

So far at least 12 deaths have been linked to the cold snap, which has brought blizzards and floods.

“We don’t have the proper equipment here to handle what’s been going on. We have drifts as high as some houses that stretch 60, 70 yards at a time.”

Temperatures dropped into the negative teens and 20s this week, and the unkind Midwest wind shredded those figures with wind chills in the negative 40s and negative 50s.