{"id":8940,"date":"2019-07-18T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/oglala-sioux-tribe-legalizes-same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T03:15:10","slug":"oglala-sioux-tribe-legalizes-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/oglala-sioux-tribe-legalizes-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Oglala Sioux Tribe Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PINE RIDGE \u2014 On Monday, July 8, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council passed a same-sex marriage ordinance in a 12 to three vote, with one abstention. With the ordinance\u2019s passage, the Ogala Sioux Tribe (OST) became first in South Dakota to legalize same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Two days later, the Oglala Sioux Tribe Law and Order Committee passed a resolution recommending that the tribe adopt a hate crime ordinance amending Law and Order Code Chapter Nine to include verbiage modeled on the Matthew Shepard Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are historic days for our tribe, and for the rights of all people who seek equality, justice and recognition under the law,\u201d said Chase Iron Eyes, who serves as lead counsel for the Lakota People\u2019s Law Project and as OST President Julian Bear Runner\u2019s public relations director.<\/p>\n

The new marriage ordinance amends marital and domestic law that had not changed on Pine Ridge since 1935. The issue was brought to the current council\u2019s attention by two women, Monique \u201cMuffie\u201d Mousseau and Felipa DeLeon, who grew up on Pine Ridge but found that they could not be married there in 2015 as they wished.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife called the tribal courthouse because it was legal across the United States. So she called the courthouse to see if we were able to get a marriage license from here, from our tribe,\u201d said DeLeon. \u201cBut they wouldn\u2019t give us one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mousseau says that denial was part of a larger pattern of discrimination and violence. \u201cWe have seen and felt and heard the pain, the cries of suicide, sexual assaults, rapes, murders. We have had to come back to different funerals, different events concerning LGTBQ,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd nothing has changed as far as the gay bashing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two began petitioning for changes to the laws in May, culminating in the passage of the new ordinance and resolution last week.<\/p>\n

As of 2015, a survey from the Center for American Progress and Movement Advancement Project reported that 36 percent of Native American transgender people have lost a job because they are transgender. The National Alliance to End Homelessness reports <\/a>that \u201chomeless youth are disproportionately African-American or American Indian and are often from lower-income communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

South Dakota\u2019s hate crime law, 22-19B-1<\/a>, was adopted in 2002. It does not protect gender identity or sexual orientation. Currently, the hate crime resolution passed at Pine Ridge is up for further discussion and debate by district councils. The Tribal Council will vote on it next at its meeting on the fourth Tuesday of August.<\/p>\n

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PINE RIDGE \u2014 On Monday, July 8, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council passed a same-sex marriage ordinance in a 12 to three vote, with one abstention. With the ordinance\u2019s passage, the Ogala Sioux Tribe (OST) became first in South Dakota to legalize same-sex marriage. Two days later, the Oglala Sioux <\/p>\n

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