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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Descen...orse_1220.html
The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.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.
The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.
The treaties signed with the United States are merely "worthless words on worthless paper," the Lakota freedom activists say on their website.
The treaties have been "repeatedly violated in order to steal our culture, our land and our ability to maintain our way of life," the reborn freedom movement says.
Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said.
"This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the cons ution," which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said.
"It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent," said Means.
The Lakota relaunched their journey to freedom in 1974, when they drafted a declaration of continuing independence -- an overt play on the le of the United States' Declaration of Independence from England.
Thirty-three years have elapsed since then because "it takes critical mass to combat colonialism and we wanted to make sure that all our ducks were in a row," Means said.
One duck moved into place in September, when the United Nations adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples -- despite opposition from the United States, which said it clashed with its own laws.
"We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children," Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference.
The US "annexation" of native American land has resulted in once proud tribes such as the Lakota becoming mere "facsimiles of white people," said Means.
Oppression at the hands of the US government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies -- less than 44 years -- in the world.
Lakota teen suicides are 150 percent above the norm for the United States; infant mortality is five times higher than the US average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movement's website.
"Our people want to live, not just survive or crawl and be mascots," said Young.
"We are not trying to embarrass the United States. We are here to continue the struggle for our children and grandchildren," she said, predicting that the battle would not be won in her lifetime.
political forum?
more power to them
Crazy Indians, always trying to steal the white man's land. Tsk Tsk
Don't know...is there oil involved?
No oil, but it looks like they're grabbing the Ogallala Aquifer, which has been pumped out 50 ft lower since 1950.
They could become water sheiks. I'm sure the Bush family is involved somehow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
Whitie was here first.
Maybe they have a nuke and aren't afraid to use it.
Is this real news?
I am a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in Rosebud, SD, I work there, I have relatives on the Council, most of my family resides there, I live 9 miles off the reservation, and yet nobody hear has heard about such things.
The generalization of that article is hilarious.
But, do you guys have any nukes to protect yourselves from the white man?
LOL. Since when would having nukes matter?
I can't confirm or deny a report of atoms existing on reservation land.
An excerpt from an op-ed at indiancountry.com http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416315
Article led 2007 Mantle of Shame Awards
Russell Means - for his mid-December announcement in D.C. that he is unilaterally withdrawing the Lakota Sioux from treaties with the United States. News flash to Means: treaties are made between nations; you are a person and not a nation; you are not empowered to speak for the Great Sioux Nation; as an individual, you can only withdraw yourself from coverage of your nation's treaties. (Means is the same Oglala Sioux actor who tried to beat domestic violence charges by challenging the sovereign authority of the Navajo Nation to prosecute him - he took it all the way to the Supreme Court and lost.)
Wait a second . . .
If you're really a native, what are you doing on the internets? I thought none of you guys had access to it because you fear the man that lives inside the internets.
My teacher told me that Medicine Men cast spells on the internets on a daily basis by dancing around a broken-up PC in the desert somewhere.
My teepee is outfitted with all of white eye's smodern technologies.
And the Medicine Man thing works.
Much like the Rain Dance, he does his voodoo until something happens and then declares it a success.
I feel like I've been enlightened.
Although, it's quite possible that you've suc bed to the powers of the white man and are now working for him by spreading lies on the internets.
You are a very crafty fellow.
Means did say I could be a fascimile of whitey.
"The Pope - for not withdrawing the doctrine of discovery papal bulls that have wrought so much havoc on Native peoples of this hemisphere. Judges who are raining injustice on Native Americans share this award for relying on 15th-century European religious law to continue to separate Native peoples from Native lands; for penalizing Native plaintiffs for barriers and passage of time caused by others; and for ruling on the side of non-Natives who may be disturbed in the future, while disregarding the disruption and damage to Native peoples that have taken place already."
Oh, those crazy Christians and thier Indian hating god.
When did Means become a Native surname?
I always expect something like, "He who cries like the rain", "Runs with scissors", "Dandruff like snow", or "Flies like an eagle after smoking peyote".
Means is very white.
We must remain determined to expose this imposter.
Does Russell Means have a teepee for his peepee?
According to the encyclopedia, it's essential for all Indians.
I lived in Globe, AZ until June 2007. I've had this moniker here now for over 2 years.
I returned home after accepting a more lucrative position in the area.
Fire away.
There you go with your nuke insinuations again.
If we weren't already screwing the Sioux out of all their oil royalties, I think these WMD insinuations would be grounds for regime change.
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