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 TOMTHUMB rated 10 months ago- From the page: "WASHINGTON (AFP) The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.
We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-...
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 Primie rated 10 months ago- Get the fuck over it already, and start paying taxes for your moneysucking casinos.
fuck Indian sovereignty.
Right of conquest applied for every other empire, why not America?
- Theirishdude rated 10 months ago
- Good luck with that.
- imanxman rated 10 months ago
- From the page: "Oppression at the hands of the US government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies " less than 44 years " in the world.
Lakota teen suicides are 150 percent above the norm for the United States; infant mortality is five times higher than the US average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movements website."
imanxman says: Change can only indicate that our society is still undergoing growth, it may scare you but embrace it. It means we still live.
- slocum77a rated 10 months ago
- we'll see what happens with this.
- TOMTHUMB rated 10 months ago
- From the page: "WASHINGTON (AFP) The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.
We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us, long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.
A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old."
- abitaamber rated 10 months ago
- Who wants to bet that the mainstream media ignores this story?
- jadedtales rated 10 months ago
- I just stumbled this twice in a row? How odd... still, I'll be watching this to see how it all plays out, especially considering the current administration.
- Dannysheahan rated 10 months ago
- An interesting article on the attempt by the Lakota nation to break away from the United States
- heatherlehman rated 10 months ago
- russell means bugs the crap out of me, but most all the lakota people i have met were seriously nice people. we will jsut have to see how the sovereign but dependent and now sovereign and separate thing works out.
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