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Lakota to Reassert Soverignity

19 December 2007 · 7 Comments

Lakota Independence

QandO points to a press release from Lakota Freedom which announces an event Wednesday in which the Lakota Sioux will reclaim their independence:

WHAT: A Historic Event between the Lakota Sioux Indians and the United States Government: Press Conference Announcing Unilateral Withdrawal of Lakota Nation From All U.S. Treaties and Return to Independence.[...]

SUMMARY: For far too long our people have suffered at the hands of the colonial apartheid system imposed on the Lakota Sioux. Our treaties with the United States government are nothing more than worthless words on worthless paper – repeatedly violated in order to steal our culture, our land and our ability to maintain our way of life.[...]

We have no choice but to take this historic action to protect our people and our way of life, and reclaim our freedom from the colonial systems of the United States Government. So we travel to Washington D.C. to withdraw from our treaties with the United States and announce full return of our sovereign status under Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution, International and Natural Law.

The current administration has a certain…nack for ignoring laws it doesn’t want to be bound by. Somehow, I think this will be rather easy for Bush to ignore.

QandO observes:

They’re just now figuring out the treaties are worthless?

In fairness to the Lakota activists, presumably about the time they first reached that realization, the U.S. military would have had an unfortunate tendency to invade tribal lands, shooting first and asking questions later.

Perhaps now, with the military so occupied in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have less of a fear of immediate invasion. :)

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