[IPSM] Lakota withdraw from US; declare sovereign nation status]

[aaron at resist.ca]

Freedom! Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/21/18468216.php

Washington D.C. – Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign
nation status today, December 19th, in Washington D.C. following
Monday’s withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United
States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner,
Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department, immediately
and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of
Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1868
Treaties at Fort Laramie Wyoming.

“This is an historic day for our Lakota people,” declared Russell Means,
Itacan of Lakota. “United States colonial rule is at its end!”

“Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our
Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and
with the knowledge of the Great Spirit,” shared Garry Rowland from
Wounded Knee. “They never honored the treaties, that’s the reason we are
here today.”  . . .

http://www.lakotafreedom.com