USA is No More
Lakota Country in present borders, after the treaties were officially annulled. The original Sioux Country (marked yellow), cut up between five artificially created states, kept being stolen and reduced by the US government, until the indigenous Sioux were left with two tiny, separated reservations (marked dark red).
Lakota Country Secedes from the US
Official Press Release
Threaten Land Liens, Contested Real Estate Over Five State Area in U.S.West Dakota Territory Reverts back to Lakota Control According to U.S., International Law
WASHINGTON, DC - December 20 - Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status today in Washington D.C. following Monday's withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner, Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department, immediately and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties at Fort Laramie Wyoming.
The End of U.S. Colonial Rule
"This is an historic day for our Lakota people," declared Russell Means, Itacan of Lakota. "United States colonial rule is at its end!"
"Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and with the knowledge of the Great Spirit," shared Garry Rowland from Wounded Knee. "They never honored the treaties, that's the reason we are here today."
The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor Russell Means, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) founder Phyllis Young, Oglala Lakota Strong Heart Society leader Duane Martin Sr., and Garry Rowland, Leader Chief Big Foot Riders. Means, Rowland, Martin Sr. were all members of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover.
Lakota Country Includes Parts of Five American States
"In order to stop the continuous taking of our resources – people, land, water and children — we have no choice but to claim our own destiny," said Phyllis Young, a former Indigenous representative to the United Nations and representative from Standing Rock.
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.
The Indigenous Peoples reclaim their freedom: “Our forefathers made the treaties in good faith — the U.S. never honored them and that’s why we are here today.” Photo: Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux Chief.
Young added, "The actions of Lakota are not intended to embarrass the United States but to simply save the lives of our people".
Lakota Connects with Bolivia, Venezuela
Following Monday's withdrawal at the State Department, the four Lakota Itacan representatives have been meeting with foreign embassy officials in order to hasten their official return to the Family of Nations.
Lakota's efforts are gaining traction as Bolivia, home to Indigenous President Evo Morales, shared they are "very, very interested in the Lakota case" while Venezuela received the Lakota delegation with "respect and solidarity."
"Our meetings have been fruitful and we hope to work with these countries for better relations," explained Garry Rowland. "As a nation, we have equal status within the national community."
Education, energy and justice now take top priority in emerging Lakota. "Cultural immersion education is crucial as a next step to protect our language, culture and sovereignty," said Means. "Energy independence using solar, wind, geothermal, and sugar beets enables Lakota to protect our freedom and provide electricity and heating to our people."
Colonizers’ Shameful Legacy, Apartheid Against Indigenous People
The Lakota reservations are among the most impoverished areas in North America, a shameful legacy of broken treaties and apartheid policies. Lakota has the highest death rate in the United States and Lakota men have the lowest life expectancy of any nation on earth, excluding AIDS, at approximately 44 years. Lakota infant mortality rate is five times the United States average and teen suicide rates 150% more than national average. 97% of Lakota people live below the poverty line and unemployment hovers near 85%.
"After 150 years of colonial enforcement, when you back people into a corner there is only one alternative," emphasized Duane Martin Sr. "The only alternative is to bring freedom into its existence by taking it back to the love of freedom, to our lifeway."
We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have traveled to Washington DC to withdraw from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at LakotaFreedom.com.
Reports available from AFP, Telegraph.co.uk, USA Today, and Radio Netherlands, among others.
Comments
May your spirits of your forefathers guide you and give you health, I respect all Native tribes. It is sad, America acts like a “diplomatic” country and yet they don’t treat the Native Americans with respect, America should not have a say in Kosovo, this article proves that the US cannot keep written promises to the Natives and yet they want independent KosovO
Posted by: DejanM | December 20, 2007 09:16 PM
Obviously, the self-appointed "Champion of Human Rights" is the world's number one expert in land-theft. They stole all the land from native Indians, now they want to steal the land from Serbs.
The small pockets of land they left to Sioux and other indigenous peoples (reservations) is exactly what they plan for Serbs in Serbia, after exterminating Croatia Serbs and pushing Bosnian Serbs into a reservation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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December 20, 2007 09:26 PM
Stealing land from Serbs and others, ignoring treaties on many different issues... In my experience American individuals are usually concerned regarding the fate of minorities, so why doesn't it reflect on their representatives and government? I have understanding for and often agree with those who oppose the US policies and criticize its hypocrisy ('forked tongue'), although I wouln't nod to violent acts against American individual non-combattants.
Citizens should more loudly express their non-agreement with what was, is and will be done on their behalf.
With less arrogance, the European newcomers would have learned from the locals, to the benefit of everybody and America's image as well.
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Posted by: JJ | December 21, 2007 07:22 AM
The history of the genocide American settlers have committed over the natives in today's United States and Canada is one of the most appalling chapters in the known human history. Over hundred million indigenous peoples were slaughtered (mostly on the territory of USA), by all means imaginable and unimaginable (including giving them deadly pox-infected blankets as "aid"). Along with entire tribes, few animal species were also wiped off from that part of the world.
No one was ever tried for this immense crime and no international body has ever opened the case of extermination of North American natives. It is an appalling, despicable, shameful chapter that can never be simply forgotten, at least not until it is properly reviewed by the International Court of Justice, capable of deliberating on genocides.
This is what Sioux and descendants of other North American tribes need to do, in order to be able to reclaim their land and their rights - sue the USA and Canadian state for genocide at the ICJ.
Under the international law, the crime of genocide does not expire and can be brought to court even hundreds of years after it was committed.
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December 21, 2007 10:52 AM
To the people in Lakota,GO FOR IT.Let the USA simmer in its own decay,as it feels it has the right to do to SERBIA God bless the true Americans
Posted by: george lagundzin | December 23, 2007 03:58 PM