Please educate yourself on what is happening and when, and try to help!!! www.lakotafreedom.com This is HUGE!
Didn't I hear that South Carolina, and several other States, tried something like that 'bout 140-odd years ago? And The Band did a song about it back in about '69, right?
Didn't know about that, but i do know that in Vermont there is a strong movement to pull out of the union and become the Republic of Vermont once again. Perhaps if the Lakota pull it, we'll be next!
There reasons why make no sense? * Lakota men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti. * Lakota death rate is the highest in the United States. * The Lakota infant mortality rate is 300% more than the U.S. Average. * More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. * The Tuberculosis rate on Lakota reservations is approx 800% higher than the U.S national average. * Alcoholism affects 8 in 10 families. * Median income is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year. * 1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and sewage while 40% lack electricty. * 60% of housing is infected with potentially fatal black molds. * 97% of our Lakota people live below the poverty line. * Unemployment rates on our reservations is 85% or higher. * Federal Commodity Food Program provides high sugar foods that kill Native people through diabetes and heart disease. * 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. If there people are doing so bad now, only imagine how bad they would be doing without being a part of the USA? Why do they want to become the "worst" nation in the world in many ways?
The reason they are so bad off is because they have been trying to assimilate into this culture...which is killing them!!! To be free to thrive they must have (and i mean really have) their own land.
Immediate Release: 24 December 2007 Media Contacts: Naomi Archer, Communications Liaison (828) 230-1404 lakotafree [at] gmail.com Lakota Freedom: Treaty Withdrawal For Elders and Children Sovereignty Action Sparks World Discussion, Disagreement, Inspiration Lakota - What began as sparsely attended press conference announcing Lakota sovereignty has grown into an international roar of freedom inspiring people on every continent and sparking excitement and discussion in homes, tribal councils, schools, and on internet blogs and message boards. Across Indian Country in particular, the impact of the sovereign action is creating both inspiration and concern as the reality of freedom sinks in. But mixed with the excitement and joy are concerns the Lakota people's needs will not be fully met, especially needs and concerns of the youth. Lakota Freedom delegate and Oglala Lakota Cante Tenza - Strongheart Warrior Society leader Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) issued the following statement after discussion with the Strongheart Grandmothers: "The whole Lakota declaration of withdrawal from the treaty is vested on the power of the Lakota people and our children. When we undertook the process of announcing the withdrawal, the capacity was far greater than most people anticipated about an individual. But throughout our history, the people have never excluded anyone within their own lifeway and when it becomes a listener's view that its about one individual, one individual does not represent the nation itself, the nation represents the individual, and that is Lakota. The withdrawal is for the people, the Elders, mothers, fathers, and the children. Throughout our history and through the enforcement of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, Congress said they would oversee the provisions of 1868 (Fort Laramie Treaty), but they failed to do so. Some minor provisions were kept, but overall the treaty was not honored. Because if the treaty was honored, we would not have this colonial catastrophe of alcoholism, drug abuse and poverty and we wouldn't have the overall high incarceration rate of the male and female in the prison populations. This leads to our children being taking away by Social Services which puts our children out of balance from learning the traditional lifeway. When the children can reconnect with who they are, they come back to the process of knowing what is Lakota in the true point of view. In this true point of view Lakota is about being free and left alone, so we can govern and save our own with the teachings of the Animal Nations. If we can conclude with this statement in the positive venue, its not about Russell Means, and certainly not about Canupa Gluha Mani or any individual, this about the Lakota Nation and the Animal People who are no longer alone." We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have withdrawn 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 www.lakotafreedom.com
i just talked with my friend Sarah - she lives in Mission , South Dakota , on the Lakota rez and recently graduated from their Sente Gleska University . she notes the negativity of tribal politics in general - and thinks this secession from the treaties is rather narrowly a Russell Means' project . she now works for the federal govt assisting with environmental research projects . her boyfriend is in Iraq with a navy construction crew . she also notes the nonsense of the military .
Freedom could be taken by the people, should the people really want it and take steps to gain it, and this is true of any people!
