BREAKING: ICE Is Detaining Native Americans — Yes, the First People of This Land 😡 Oglala Sioux Tribe DEMANDS their immediate release…See more ⤵️

ICE is now detaining Native Americans — the original people of this land — and the Oglala Sioux Tribe is demanding their immediate release.

The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Frank Star Comes Out, has issued a formal demand to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to free three enrolled tribal citizens who are being illegally held at an ICE facility in Minnesota. These men were reportedly detained during a sweep of a homeless encampment, then transferred to the ICE facility at Fort Snelling.
Let that sink in.
Fort Snelling is not just any location. It is forever linked to one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history — the Dakota 38+2, the largest mass execution in American history, when 38 Dakota men were publicly hanged in 1862. Holding Native people there today is not just wrong — it is a chilling echo of historical violence.
The tribe’s legal memorandum makes one thing crystal clear:
“Tribal citizens are not aliens.”
Enrolled members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are U.S. citizens by law and citizens of their sovereign nation by treaty. They are categorically outside immigration jurisdiction.
Yet DHS reportedly refused to release information about the detainees unless the tribe agreed to enter an “immigration enforcement agreement” with ICE — effectively using tribal citizens as bargaining chips to erode tribal sovereignty. The tribe has flatly refused.
“This was never about enforcing the law,” tribal leaders say. “This is about power.”
Scholars and Indigenous advocates warn that this moment exposes the true nature of Trump-era immigration enforcement — militarized, racialized, and rooted in a long history of violence against Indigenous peoples.
Nobody has more right to be here than Native Americans.
Treaties matter. Sovereignty matters. History matters.
These men must be released immediately.