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

[niankhsekhmet]

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.

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[fannyfae]

According to the Patriot Act, and the newest legislation, it basically falls under the Domestic Terrorism clause. Not that this is anything new to the Lakota. But they can make it really rough for the people who follow them.

My stance on it is I never want to hear the US Government comment about any other Nation's human rights record until they come to grips with their own. The whole torture issue that has been in the news as of late really makes us see what a sham the American people have been living under.