Aberdeen representative called out on now-deleted social media post

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Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garrett Renville criticized a social media post by Rep. Logan Manhart as “inflammatory” and “racially charged.”

The post, which has since been deleted, referenced "white boy summer" and drew criticism from Democrats and some Republicans.

Manhart's legislative district includes part of the Lake Traverse Reservation, home to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.

AGENCY VILLAGE, South Dakota — The chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate said Thursday during a meeting of South Dakota’s State-Tribal Relations Committee that an earlier social media post from one of his district’s state representatives was “inflammatory” and “racially charged.”

Chairman J. Garrett Renville’s tribe hosted the meeting at its headquarters in Agency Village. Earlier