WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.
"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.
A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.
They also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and will continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months, they told the news conference.
Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
It is about time someone took the first step, and who better than those that felt the boot of the American Empire most profoundly. Visit their website, if they are serious about making this stick they deserve our support; self-determination is supposed to be an "American" thing is it not?
That's the most inspiring news I've heard in a while!
ReplyDeleteIndian activist Russell Means, quoted in the article, is a member of the Libertarian Party. In this video I posted a while back ─ "We're All Living on the Reservation Now" ─ he says that "libertarians" are "the only group of non-Indians... in the United States of America that think Indian."
Its about time that Texans throw off the yoke of tyranny and secede from this union as well. The Lakota Indians rightly claim that the feds repeatedly viotated their treaties just like they forced a phoney constitution down our throat and forced us to stay in this union of theirs. The biggest mistake ever made by Texas was to flush its independence down the toilet by joining this union.
ReplyDeleteTexas made that mistake twice obviously, the first is inexplicable - the second occasion was at gun point. It indeed seems time to think again that small is beautiful (if one can call Texas small).
ReplyDeleteThe bravery of the Lakota should inspire us all. I hope and pray that the ordinary Lakota people stand behind this effort and throw off the naysayers in their "elected" tribal governments.
All Natives deserve their rightful heritage.
ReplyDeleteLakota leaders must pursue this avenue through International courts, first. Then.. take the issue to the battlefield, once victorious in the courts.
The CORPORATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA cannot be trusted. Neither can her commercial courts of statutory law.
Our lands were stolen. Our rights reserved by others. The descendants of Lakota history languish in ignorance, poverty, alcoholism, and no future...save for the possibility of running gambling institutions for the BIA/Treasury of America.
Time has arrived to take back our lands, our lives, and our honor. This will not be any easier than the process involved in losing all of these cherished items. The rewards shall altogether be different though, this time.
Wind That Walks
Umm...here are some questions, why didn't they post is Lakota? Why did they contact socialist contries embassy's?
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