Am. Indian Power

[e_dog]

uh um, like yeah. civil muthaf'ers! Secede from the Impire! Can anyone join or ya gotta be 'ndigenous?
Declare your indypendance. Freedom ! (Yeah right...)

Lakota Indians Declare Sovereignty From U.S.
The Lakota Sioux Indians have withdrawn from all treaties with the United States and declared their independence. A delegation from the tribe delivered the news to the State Department last week. Longtime Indian rights activist Russell Means said: “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.” Lakota country comprises portions of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The Lakota said the decision was necessary in the face of what they described as colonial apartheid conditions. The life expectancy for Lakota men is less than 44 years; 97 percent of the Lakota people live below the poverty line. The Lakota also said the United States never honored many treaties signed dating back to the mid 19th century.

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don't think that life expectancy gonna go up here, if the feds go in with arms. Imagine that tho, now there could be an insuregency right here at home! Fun for Fox News, CNN!

[e_dog]

I bet the Mormons are next! I bet the Mormons are next!

('f Mitt don't win.)


THE REVOLUTION HAS ARRIV'D!?

[mnaz]

I think you have to live somewhere near Wyoming or South Dakota to join. Not sure why the average life span is so low, other than entrenched, isolated poverty-- the usual suspects. As to broken treaties, the abuses and 'rationalizations' must be damn near uncountable. In this case, a major sticking point seems to be that the US Interior Dept. has refused to pay the Lakotas their treaty royalties due from decades of pumping oil from Lakota land. Oh Gawd, is it just another bereft corporate oil war? Can't be. I know it has to go deeper than that.

[mnaz]

As for the Mormons, I think they're fine with the system. They even gave up polygamy just to get in (via one of those rare post-Joseph Smith revelations). They'll probably just try to buy us out. Look for more of that.

[jimboloco]

will obama pardon leanard peltier?

[e_dog]

did Cliton?