My extremely objective sample size of the single South Dakota resident I have talked to about this thinks that she is a laughable disgrace.
We talked for a bit about how basically any idiot should know that it takes a while, as in years and years, to properly train a hunting dog.
And also executing a puppy, and a goat, is fucking insane.
According to her the goat was not really even Noem’s goat. It was apparently a goat that was being basically rented, primarily as an au naturale lawn mower.
Anyway, then this 50+ year old white lady proceeded to laugh for 3 minutes straight about how bad you have to fuck up to get banned from every native reservation in the state, a full 1/5 of the landmass of the territory you govern.