The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, the smallest in the state, also congratulated the GOP governor on her nomination to be Trump's homeland security secretary.

The South Dakota governor was banished by all nine Native American tribes in South Dakota over comments she made last spring.

One tribe in South Dakota lifted its order banning Gov. Kristi Noem from its territories just days before the Republican was set to appear before a U.S. Senate committee on her nomination to head one of the federal government's largest agencies.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has been unbanned from one tribe in South Dakota after every tribe in the state banned her last year. Days before her confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security,

Kristi Noem, Trump's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, was banned from entering tribal lands last year after she made controversial comments.

Gov. Kristi Noem was cut off from entering a wide swath of tribal lands in South Dakota early last year after making public comments that tribal leaders were catering to drug cartels on their reservations.