Topic: Lakota secede.
- Dec 22, 2007 07:26am by phism
it's about fucking time.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/lakota-withdraw.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Descendants_of_Sitting_Bull_Crazy_Horse_1220.html
http://www.unobserver.com/layout4.php?id=4202&blz=1
i don't know how much credence to give to this, considering it refers to Russell Means more than anyone else... i want to know what has actually been going on with the Lakota government.
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http://www.lakotafreedom.com/index.html
The Lakota Freedom Delegation is continuing the work that we were asked to do by the traditional chiefs and treaty councils over many years.
Emerging from the Wounded Knee Occupation in 1973, the International Indian Treaty Council drew together more than 5000 delegates representing 98 Indian tribes and Nations from North and South America. This manifesto, representing the wisdom of thousands of people, their Ancestors, and the Great Mystery explicity supports the rights of Indigenous Nations to live free and to take whatever actions necessary for sovereignty.
Download the complete Declaration of Continuing Independence.
[url]http://www.lakotafreedom.com/declarationofcontinuingindependence.pdf[/url]
For more than a year and a half prior to this December announcement, Lakota delegates have been meeting with the traditional treaty councils of Lakota to build critical mass for this action.
In the face of the colonial apartheid conditions imposed on Lakota people, the withdrawal from the U.S. Treaties is necessary. These conditions have been devastating:
* 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.
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"After 150 years of colonial enforcement, when you back people into a corner there is only one alternative. That alternative is to bring freedom back into existence by taking it back - back to the love of freedom, to our lifeway"......... Canupa Gluha Mani[/quote:acbc73ef82]
- Dec 22, 2007 10:02pm by phism
they should have written their declaration in the lakota language.
