Entries Tagged as 'South Dakota'
3 June 2008 · Comments Off
So, this is it. South Dakota and Montana have their primaries today, bringing primary season to a close.
In a normal year, this wouldn’t be a noteworthy landmark. But this year… pundits, professional and amateur, have been waiting to be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
It’s a shame I’m going to be in meetings all day. There’s an expectation that a steady trickle of superdelegate endorsements will be made today and tomorrow. I’ve got to believe that someone (probably the Obama campaign) will have a running tally going, so that the blogosphere can melt down when he clinches the nomination, this evening or tomorrow.
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2008 Elections · Montana · Obama · primaries · South Dakota
So, it appears that “Lakota Oyate” are continuing on with their redeclaration of independence. The map on the left now appears on the group’s website, along with an interesting press release:
Property ownership in the five state area of Lakota now takes center stage. Parts of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana have been illegally homesteaded for years despite knowledge of Lakota as predecessor sovereign [historic owner]. Lakota representatives say if the United States does not enter into immediate diplomatic negotiations, liens will be filed on real estate transactions in the five state region, clouding title over literally thousands of square miles of land and property.
Well, I suppose that’s one way to grab folks’ attention — kill the real estate market, and trigger a court battle that they’re likely to fail (presumably over some question as to whether the Lakota Freedom folks are the appropriate representatives of the Lakota Nation, as well as failure to adequately exercise their claim in years previous), but I respect the chutzpah.
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Lakota Independence · Montana · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · Wyoming
