Seems the Sioux don't think so highly of genocide after all

Back in March, the president of South Dakota's Oglala Sioux promised to open an abortuary on the Pine Ridge Reservation to make sure that the slaughter of innocents wouldn't be slowed down by the state's ban on it. Apparently this was a bit too much for the descendants of genocide victims.

PORCUPINE, S.D. - The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council voted 9-5 Thursday to impeach the tribal president for proposing an abortion clinic on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation...

Will Peters, a tribal council member who filed the impeachment complaint, said Fire Thunder didn't have the tribal council's approval to pursue the project.

"The bottom line is the Lakota people were adamantly opposed to abortion on our homelands. The president was involved in unauthorized political actions," he said after the vote, which came after two hours of private deliberation...

Lakota values teach that abortion is wrong and life is sacred, Peters told the tribal council and the dozens of others gathered in the community center, many of whom fanned themselves in the summer heat.

"Abortion is what has drawn our tribe into the national spotlight," he said. "She basically took the whole tribe into this with her.

"We sat back and it was like watching a train wreck."