SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says the tribes are not responsible for her banishment from some tribal land within the state.

“I don’t believe it’s the tribes that are banishing me,” Noem said. “It is their tribal governments, and it is their presidents, their chairmen. I do not believe it is the community members.”

While some tribal officials may not want Noem on the land, she says the people support her.

“Dan, I have gotten hundreds and hundreds of emails and phone calls from people who live in these communities,” Noem said. “Tribal members who say, ‘Governor, you’re right. We need an audit.'”

Noem called in March for audits of all federal money that has gone to South Dakota tribes.

The Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council voted Thursday to ban the governor from its reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe was the first to ban the governor in the wake of a joint address where Noem told lawmakers in Pierre about alleged gang and cartel activity. Noem on Thursday said she had spoken recently with Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out.

“I requested a meeting with him and then also had the chance to visit with him about a week and a half ago in person and invited him again, told him I’d meet him down at Pine Ridge, if he wanted to come to Pierre, anywhere he wanted to meet, I’d love to have a conversation about what we can do to ensure law and order and safety for his community,” Noem said.

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council voted to ban the governor at a meeting on April 2.

“She said that council, councils were in on with the cartel, Mexican cartels and things like that, and she also made statements about our children, and the, our parents, our schools, pretty negative, derogatory statements,” Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Ryman LeBeau said at the April 2 meeting.

The governor on Thursday in Sioux Falls spoke about another banishment, this time on a reservation that spans both North and South Dakota.

“Standing Rock I know put out a resolution banishing me, but it sounds to me like it was the, a very split decision, and it was most of the North Dakota members of the council that voted to keep me off the reservation, not the South Dakota council members,” Noem said.

KELOLAND’s Dan Santella reached out to Star Comes Out on Thursday but did not hear back after requesting an interview.