Lakota Oyate

 

 

 

Lakota has been reborn as a free and sovereign nation!

This rebirth is the realization of an ongoing process lasting no less than 33 years and guided by the Great Mystery, the Ancestors, and traditional Elders.

1974: The first International Indian Treaty Council brings together more than 5000 delegates representing 98 Indian tribes and Nations from North and South America. The Declaration of Continuing Independence

, a manifesto representing the wisdom of thousands of people, their Ancestors, and the Great Mystery supports the rights of Indigenous Nations to live free and to take whatever actions necessary for sovereignty.

2004: Lakota representatives renew communication with the traditional chiefs and treaty councils in the following communities: Pine Ridge, Porcupine, Kyle, Rosebud, Lower Brule, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, and Flandreau. Additional consultation with the Treaty Council occurred during a Defenders of Black Hills meeting in Rapid City.

December 17, 2007: Lakota Freedom Delegation delivers letter to U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. withdrawing from all treaties with the United States government. Delegation consists of Mni yuha Najin Win (Phyllis Young), Teghiya Kte (Gary Rowland), Oyate Wacinyapin (Russell Means), Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.), Delegation Liaison Naomi Archer (Iladurarrak Nation), and several other members.

December 17, 2007: Freedom Delegation holds international press conference at Plymouth congregational church in Washington D.c. News becomes world-wide sensation. Website receives over half-a-million hits from more than 100 different nations in one week!

December 30, 2007: Lakota Freedom Delegation website and contact info taken by one delegation member without consent of all other delegates. So-called “Republic of Lakotah” and “provisional government” is announced despite the fact “republic” is not a Lakota word and Lakota already has a traditional form of government still in existence.

January 1, 2008: Lakota Oyate emerges from the Lakota Freedom Delegation to ensure the voice of the people – Elders and children – is respected and heard. Contact information continues from Freedom Delegation with email to lakotafree [at] gmail.com and liaison/media phone to (828) 230-1404.

January 1, 2008: Lakota Oyate launches website at http://www.lakotaoyate.net to provide an online forum for the Lakota oyate who use the computer to voice their feelings and ideas about their lives. [website under development]

January 5, 2008: Meeting and honor ceremony for the Lakota Freedom Delegation held in St. Francis on Rosebud.

January 7, 2008: Lakota Oyate and the Lakota Freedom movement comes under attack from (Lakota) individuals who send out false and slanderous emails, as well as threats from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Gary Garrison of the BIA stated the group’s withdrawal “doesn’t mean anything” and threatened, “when they begin the process of violating other people’s rights, breaking the law, they’re going to end up like all the other groups that have declared themselves independent – usually getting arrested and being put in jail.”

January 18, 2008: Lakota Oyate calls for ending of COINTELPRO type personal attacks and false statements, and for the voices of the Elders and children to be heard in the emergence of a free and independent Lakota Nation.

 

http://www.lakotaoyate.net/history.html 

Lakota Oyate represents the traditional voice of the free Lakota oyate (people)

from what was known as the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota,South Dakota and Montana.

In our freedom, we reject the colonial apartheid system that has caused genocide to our people, and to all Indigenous peoples.

Lakota Oyate emerges from the work of the Lakota Freedom Delegation. Now that we have returned from Washington D.C., we work to ensure the voice of the oyate – the Elders, children and all people – are respected and heard in the rebirth of a Lakota Nation rooted in the power of wowasakeikcupi, or taking back the way.

We do not represent those BIA or IRA governments beholden to the colonial system, but we encourage all people to reclaim their freedom.

We do not support the continuing imposition of the “Republic of Lakotah” or its so-called “provisional government” which does not represent the will of the people, the traditional matrilineal Lakota society structure, nor the spirit of the Animal Nations which survive within the Elders and children.

We do call for communication and healing so that all aspects of the Lakota Freedom movement can work together under the guidance of the Elders and children.

 

http://www.lakotaoyate.net/about.html 

 

 

 

Lakota Oyate [A Special Report]

As a US Citizen, I hope that the independence of Kosovo would serve as a catalyst for the cause of independence in Vermont, Ohio, Alaska, Hawaii, South Carolina, Texas, and Lakota Oyate [The Sioux Nation in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska that declared their independence from the USA on December 2007] and Santa Cruz in Bolivia.

Lakota Oyate [A Special Report]

LAKOTE OYATE  

While other areas of the USA have debated declaring their independence [and others are concentrating on the Elections of 2008, news of a different type has emerged.

The Lakota Tribe has reclaimed their nation [on the 17^th of December 2007] after many decades of being oppressed. The Lakota Tribe formed their independent nation from former Sioux Indian Reservations in Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The reasons have been many such as Mortality, Drugs, and Alcohol, Incarceration, Disease, Poverty, Unemployment, Threatened Culture, and decades of mistreatment in the hands of programmes such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and its masters in Washington.

I.                    MORTALITY

  

1. The highest rate of death in the USA
2. The Suicide Rate for Teenagers in the Native American Population is 150% higher than the average US Teenage Group
3. Infant Mortality is 300% higher than the average US Infant Group
4. A Lower Life Expectancy than in Haiti

  

II.                 DRUGS AND ALCOHOL

   

1. Drugs and Alcoholism affects almost 80% of the families of the indigenous nation in the USA

  

III.               INCARCERATION

   

1. Native Americans have the second largest incarceration rate in America
2. Incarceration Rates are 40% higher in the Indigenous People in America than other races and ethnicities.
3. 21% of South Dakotan Prisoners are Indigenous

  

IV.              DISEASE

   

1. The Tuberculosis and Diabetes Range amongst the Indigenous Population is 800% higher than those of the average population.
2. Cervical Cancer is 500% more prevalent than the average population in America.

   

V. POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND HOUSING

   

1. 97% of the Lakota Tribe lives below the poverty line.
2. 85% of the Lakota Tribe are unemployed
3. 60% of Housing that lacks telephones and have fatal molds.
4. 40% of Houses lack electricity.
5. Houses built for six to eight people have thirty people residing in such houses. [It resembles Cuba under Castro].

  

VI. ENDANGERED CULTURE

   

1. Lakota Children are placed in Foster Homes where they are prohibited from speaking their language and punished if they do. Many are even abused physically and psychologically.
2. The Lakota Language is becoming an endangered and possibly extinct language taking into account that the language is not being passed from generation to generation.

    

It has been because of these and past injustices imposed on the Lakota Nation by unfair treaties that have led the Lakota Nation to seek Independence. Such Independence has been binding on the Declaration of Continuing Independence signed by more than 5000 delegates representing 98 Indian tribes and Nations from North and South America.

Even as Lakota Oyate continues its struggle for independence, the Republicans and Democrats [like the British Colonial Powers who tried to stop Independence in places like India and the USA] have used defamation. The Republicans and Democrats have even used their puppets within Lakota Oyate to attempt to destroy the movement for independence within.

    Examples of such threats have come from the spokesperson of the so called “Bureau of Indian Affairs” who goes by the name of Gary Garrison. Mr. Garrison declared the following: “the group’s withdrawal “doesn’t mean anything” and threatened, “when they begin the process of violating other people’s rights, breaking the law, they’re going to end up like all the other groups that have declared themselves independent – usually getting arrested and being put in jail.” 

This comes from a spokesperson of the same Republicans and Democrats that talk about freedom and democracy abroad but repress it at home and in the American Continent. It is also rare that people like Evo Morales of Bolivia talk about indigenous rights in Bolivia and the American Continent but does not support Lakota Oyate. [Evo Morales is facing a province that has declared itself independent of Bolivia].

Press TV deserves praise for covering the Lakota Oyate Nation and other countries should give publicity and recognition. I believe that Lakota Oyate has a right to be heard and be allowed to determine their destiny.

   

REFERENCE:

 

 

http://www.lakotaoyate.net/

www.democracynow.org/2000/3/30/struggles_of_the_lakota_nation 

PRESS TV: “A Declaration of Independence from the USA”

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=35884§ionid=3510304  

http://www.lakotafreedom.com/contact.html

Lakota Oyate Map/ Mapa de Lakota Oyate

Lakota Oyate

LAKOTAH OYATE

From the Lakota Freedom Delegation
Wowasakeikekcupi! We Are Taking Back the Way!

 MEDIA ADVISORY
Immediate Release: 3 January 2008

Media Contacts:
Naomi Archer, Communications Liaison
Phone: (828) 230-1404 | Email: lakotafree [at] gmail.com
Website: www.lakotaoyate.net
 

The American West No More, Lakota Nation Releases National Map

Lakota Natural Land-Base Divides 5 U.S. State Boundaries “As long as the grass grows, and the rivers flow, this land will always be yours.”
 

Lakota – Lakota Oyate, a continuing effort of the Lakota Freedom Delegation, released a map of national boundaries which will force state and Federal government in five states to begin the process of planning their governmental initiatives without tens of thousands of acres of land.

Meanwhile, the Lakota people begin the process of recovering their natural land-base without U.S. government interference. Protection of sacred sites and confrontation with exploitative government and private enterprises that have been removing or polluting Lakota lands comes to the forefront.

The map, which can be found at www.lakotaoyate.com provides an initial glimpse into a free and independent Lakota.

“The free Lakota nation is regaining the original natural territory of its unceeded land,” said Lakota Freedom Delegate Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.). “The white man promised that as long as the grass grows and the rivers flow this land will always be yours[the Lakota]. This promise still lives within the heart of the Lakota Nation.”

The northern and western boundaries of Lakota run along the Yellowstone and Big Horn rivers in North Dakota and Montana. The southern boundaries run along the North Platte and Platte rivers in Wyoming and Nebraska, while the eastern boundary of Lakota shares the bank of the Missouri River.

Canupa Gluha Mani added, “The He Sapa will never be for sale, its just returning to its natural owners, the Lakota Independent Nation.”

Lakota Oyate emerges from the work of the Lakota Freedom Delegation and continues to ensure the voice of the oyate – the Elders, children and all people – are respected and heard in the rebirth of the Lakota Nation. For more information, please visit our new website at www.lakotaoyate.net