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Joe Demko:
http://www.lakotafreedom.com/media.html

SUMMARY:
--- Quote ---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.

The devastation this has wrought is clear:
Lakota men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti.
The Lakota infant mortality rate is 5x the U.S. Average.
The Tuberculosis rate on Lakota reservations is approx 800% higher than the U.S national average.
97% of our Lakota people live below the poverty line.
Unemployment rates on our reservations are approximately 85%.
Teenage suicide rate is 150% higher than the U.S national average for this group.
Our Lakota language is an Endangered Language, on the verge of extinction.

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.
They have already sought recognition from Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and South Africa. Their press conference was attended by Bolivian ambassador Gustavo Guzman as a show of solidarity. The Bolivian government is reviewing their diplomatic documents.

I wonder where this will go.

Manedwolf:
I dunno, some other tribes have gotten back at the US pretty good through sheer economic willpower.

Witness the staggering success of the Connecticut tribal casinos, or how the Seminole tribe pays a stipend to every tribe member from ownership of the Hard Rock chain and its casino, and from selling cigarettes mostly to "the white man".

The Seminole neighborhoods on the reservation near Ft. Lauderdale are now mostly a collection of McMansions as a result of tribal profits.

And this...



...is what the Mohegan tribe did by using capitalism and leveraging their status as a tribe on a reservation. Not too shabby.

Joe Demko:
What'll determine whether this goes anywhere, I guess, is whether the people who've made the declaration have any standing within the tribe to do so.  I confess to pretty much total ignorance about the internal affairs of the 500-some tribes in the US.  If they're just some guys with big dreams and a website, it'll obviously go nowhere.

Werewolf:
Not a problem...

Just build a wall around their reservation and lock 'em all in. Wouldn't last long before their situation got even worse.

I suppose they could then declare war on the US but we'd just kick their stupid, hunter gatherer, freezin' in the winter, fryin' in the summer, wonderin' where their next meal is coming from, livin' in garbage, life expectancy of 33 years or so and 50% infant mortality rate asses again.

I have never got the whole reservation/sovereign nation thing re the INDIANS (not native Americans - if you were born here you're a native American). The Indians were flat out defeated in multiple wars. Lots of people wanted to just wipe 'em out but that was not to be. They're lucky they're still around to bitch and complain.

Eliminate reservations and force 'em to assimilate. In the long run thats what would be best for 'em.

wooderson:

--- Quote ---Lots of people wanted to just wipe 'em out but that was not to be. They're lucky they're still around to bitch and complain.
Wow. Someone should try telling, say, the JPFO this.

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