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[twincityhacker]

Yesterday, Lakota tribe withdrew from their treaties from the US, and have declared sovereign nation status. They are also seeking diplomatic relations with Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, and South Africa.

Rapid City Journal

Sioux Falls Argus Leader

AFP

Fox News First "major" news source to pick this up.

The Lakota leaders has been apparently working on this since 1974, since they drafted a document stating their continued independence. Reasons given is constant treaty breaking and continued theft of land, resources, children, and way of life.

Lakota treaties with USA

As seen from quizzicalsphinx.

Comments

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I don't know what to make of it. Means, last I knew, did not have any official position within any tribe, so I wonder how official this is.

[hideyuki-tah.livejournal.com]

Opp, scratch that, apparently the guy who's spearheading this thing is just a Lakota nutcase looking for attention.

Or so says a Lakota I got word from.

This turned a lot less interesting when I learned that.