The Lakota Nation Secedes from the Occupational Government of the U.S. and Declares Independence.

I am VERY happy to see this. Russell Means is one of my heroes as a kid. If this does go through, then I fully expect other Soveriegn Indigenous Nations to follow suit.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/21/5946/

I need to contact my brother, Bill, who is now living on the Rez in Cherokee, NC. I wonder how folks feel about it there.