For the third time since 2022, the Oglala Sioux Tribe has sued the federal government over inadequate funding for its reservation’s public safety operations.

The case filed last week in U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota alleges that the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has yet to address the shortage of officers the tribe initially sued over in 2022. It also says the BIA’s justice division once again denied requests to fund school resource officers, a canine unit, an internal affairs division and a Missing and Murdered Indigenous People investigation unit in federal fiscal year 2025, which began at the start of last October.

The other two cases, filed in 2022 and 2024, were consolidated as one in July. Those issues remain unresolved , and nothing has been filed by

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