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Hau mikola!
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Mitaku
Oyasin!
We are all related! |
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We would like to
make a special acknowledgement of all the
Indigenous
Nations and Independence Movements
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Aho! We've had
more than
half a million
hits
on our website
in one week! Thanks for your interest and support |
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Pilameya!
Many thanks
to all people who are sharing their support and solidarity with
us. People from more than
100 different
nations
have visited our website. The whole world is watching!
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The Lakota Freedom
Delegation is the powerful realization of an ongoing process lasting no less
than 33 years. Despite criticism the Delegation does not speak for the Lakota
people, Delegation representatives have been in ongoing communication with the
traditional chiefs and treaty councils all across Lakota.
With this in mind, the
Delegation does not act for Colonized or “hang around the fort indians”, and/or
other Lakota people unwilling to be free.
In 1974, the first
International TREATY Conference at Wakpala on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian
reservation in what is now called South Dakota was where the Declaration of
Continuing Independence was created. The first mandate was to become
recognized by the International Communities,
On September 2007, when the United Nations passed the Declaration of
Indigenous Rights, that mandate was fulfilled.
See the Map
The second mandate is to return to our original status as
free and Independent Nations. On December 17, 2007, the Lakotah Freedom
Delegation notified the Department of State of the United States of
America, we are unilaterally withdrawing from all Treaties and
Agreements entered into between the United States of America and
Lakotah.
Download the complete
Declaration of Continuing Independence.
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Lakotah and the Louisiana Purchase
In 1803, the United States and
France entered into the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. However, the United States
did not buy any Indian land from France. It simply purchased an agreement that
France would not compete with the United States in making land treaties with the
Indian inhabitants in the territory.
The Lakotah are in a class of
clearly intended third party beneficiaries of Article III of the Louisiana
Purchase Treaty, the relevant language of which states:
"The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be ... maintained and protected in
the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they
profess."
Other language in the treaty, such as the requirement that the inhabitants of
the territory be admitted to the Union, would be binding upon the United States
if Lakotah were to choose to accept admission to the Union. However, that
language is optional for Lakotah. Lakotah was not a party to the Louisiana
Purchase Treaty and cannot be bound by it against its will, even though it
obtains benefits from it.
So, Lakotah will:
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Accept the benefits of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty; and |
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Maintain its rights to the free enjoyment of : |
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Enabling Acts of the Foreign States within Lakotah
When various states joined the United States, the United States
Congress passed laws enabling them to do so, upon certain conditions.
Here is some of the relevant language from the Enabling Act of 1889,
applicable to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana:
"Second. That the people inhabiting said proposed States do agree and
declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to ... all
lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian
tribes."
The entire act is at:
History of the
State Legislature >
State
History >
Enabling
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