A hotel in South Dakota is accused of refusing to rent a room to at least two Indigenous women after its owner reportedly threatened to ban all Native Americans from the property
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The NDN Collective, an Indigenous rights group in South Dakota, and Sunny Red Bear, the group's director of racial equity, filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday claiming they were racially discriminated against when they were denied reservations at the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City this week. The alleged incident was"part of a policy, pattern, or practice of intentional racial discrimination against Native Americans," according to the lawsuit.
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