Russell Means Continues to Advocate for Lakota Secession
Have the Lakota Natives Found the Means to Secede from the United States?
By Brant McLaughlin, published Dec 22, 2007
Published Content: 794 Total Views: 204,015 Favorited By: 28 CPs
According to Means, the new Lakota Nation will not charge any taxes and will issue its own national drivers licenses and passports, but there will be loosely confederated autonomous communities within the nation each making its own community rules.
Means is trying to break from a 150-year-old treaty with the United States that makes the large Lakota Reservation part of the U.S. He insists that according to Article VI of the United States Constitution, treaties are the supreme law of the land, and they can be renounced if they were essentially worthless-which is exactly how he characterizes the Lakota-United States treaties of 1851 and 1868.
Means insists that the treaties were designed to make the Native people sovereign, yet in practice they are anything but sovereign.
Lakota territory cuts across North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana. The Lakota are the largest sub-division of the Dakota Nation of Native Americans and are renowned for their prowess in hunting buffalo.
Means says that his deeply troubled people are sick and tired of being treated as second-class citizens under an apartheid system imposed upon them, and that if they take back their autonomy they can cure their societal ills and be a great nation.
The Lakota elders demanded of their people in 1974 that their community begin making lasting relationships with the international community and re-establishing their identity and autonomy.
This week, the secessionists visited the U.S. State Department along with the embassies of Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile, and South Africa in order to seek formal recognition.
Russell Means Continues to Advocate for Lakota Secession
Date: December 20, 2007Location:
Rapid City, SD USA
You may also like...
- Lakota Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status
- A Modern Day Native American Nation Within the United States: Dream or Reality?
- Hotel Guide: Bismarck, North Dakota
- South Dakota Bar Exam: A Basic Gudie
- Fly Fishing in North Dakota
- Hotel Guide: Fargo, North Dakota
- Congress Shows Native Americans Some Love
- Romantic Weekend Getaways in South Dakota
- University of South Dakota Legend "Doc" Farber Who Mentored Tom Brokaw, Al Neuharth, U.S. Senators D...
- South Dakota a Great Place to Live and Visit
Most Commented On


john schuller
Add a Comment
Posted on 06/20/2008 at 3:06:35 AM
Brant McLaughlin
Add a Comment
Posted on 03/04/2008 at 12:03:08 PM
Deborah Dera
Add a Comment
Posted on 03/04/2008 at 12:03:08 PM
rick william,or little bear
Add a Comment
Posted on 02/06/2008 at 3:02:17 PM
Frantz Fanon
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/30/2007 at 4:12:26 PM
Hasan Milli
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/25/2007 at 4:12:39 PM
Inner Circle Native American Church of Arkansas
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/24/2007 at 5:12:46 PM
Bill J.
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/24/2007 at 9:12:59 AM
Tabitha Fleming
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/23/2007 at 8:12:17 PM
Brad
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/23/2007 at 2:12:31 PM
eric
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/23/2007 at 12:12:40 PM
JAWANZA
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/23/2007 at 11:12:51 AM
JAWANZA
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/23/2007 at 11:12:45 AM
Bill J.
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/23/2007 at 12:12:41 AM
Reverend Brenda Shoop
Add a Comment
Posted on 12/22/2007 at 6:12:42 PM