Aweome! When are the other native Americans following suit? The UN has already passed a resolution that gives them the right to their native lands. Does that mean they can claim the five state area? Will the Americans give them 3 billion a year and some nuclear weapons? They should ask for aid in euros.
I can't wait to see what they do without their government checks...and government food....and government housing....and, well, you get my point. I think its stupid beyond belief.
Just consider it as aid to the oppressed natives. No reason to stop the checks. Who knows? They may inspire all the other tribes to stand up for themselves.
Don't be silly, they have a centuries old urge to unite with their ancestral lands. As oppressed natives, the UN (which passed the resolution that natives have a right to their lands) should give them their lands. After all, if the UN determines a state, the rest of the world has to recognise it. I'm sure the Americans will also enable the Lakotans (and all other native tribes) to get their rightful state. And help them out with aid.
No they don't. :bugeye: Unite with their ancestral lands??? They are already living on it. You really need to go to a reservation and be around this tribe before you say what they all want. To say that Means and Banks speak for them all is like saying Jesse Jackson speaks for all black people.
Does it matter how they behave? Does that negate their right to demand their lands? They have a priori rights and have decided to withdraw from their treaties. Is this statement false?
Why they already have that, the problem is that Russell Means is not a elected representative of the tribe and has no legal standing to make this action. I know Russell Means, through the LacCourte Oreilles Ojibwa, in Minnesota, and he is what they call a Hollywood Indian, and I tend to agree with them, if he can't get his face and name in the News he don't show up.
While I may sympathise with the Lakota, it can never amount to more than the equivalent of a publicity stunt. The United States of America is not going to substantially reduce it's internal territory for any reason. The treaties the Lakota are withdrawing from have consistently been violated by the United States Government anyway for all of those 150 years. So what's the point?
