Blogger Say Anything banned from Indian reservation

Blogger Rob Port of Say Anything did some original reporting after he visited North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. He said some unkind things about the place and the people who live there. And now Rob is banned from the reservation, for presumably, telling the truth.

From AP:

How do you ban somebody from land without even telling them about it?" (Port) said. "It doesn't seem very straightforward, banning somebody for an opinion piece."

Titled "The Appalling State of North Dakota Indian Reservations," his column ran in the January issue of a magazine called the Dakota Beacon and appeared on Port's blog. Port said he spent about 15 hours "going around neighborhoods and knocking on doors" on the Turtle Mountain reservation.

He wrote that people are "perfectly content to live there. Probably because they don't know any better. They were likely raised in housing projects by their parents, who in turn were probably raised in housing projects themselves."

Port's column also called for an end to reservations and "cradle-to-grave entitlements."

Rob is a good blogger who makes a lot of sense. I guess that's why they don't like him in Turtle Mountain.

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