By Lakota People | October 25, 2020
Republic of Lakota
The Lakota are the freedom loving people from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system they have been forced to live under.
They are continuing the work that they were asked to do by the traditional chiefs and treaty councils at the first Indian Treaty Council meeting at Standing Rock Sioux Indian Country in 1974.
During the week of December 17-19, 2007, they traveled to Washington DC and withdrew from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. They are alerting the Family of Nations they have now reassumed their freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law.
They do not represent those BIA or IRA governments beholden to the colonial apartheid system, or those “hang around the fort” Indians who are unwilling to claim their freedom.
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