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  • Oil Country! Now That's Incentive!

  • The fact is that I can hardly blame them. Having a small amount of Lakota blood, and being that I follow the Red Road of my ancestors, I think I do have a little bit of insite into this matter. Since the United States came into existance, it has signed 365 treaties with the various Native American Nations, of which the United States has vertually wiped out 325 of those 500 nations. In that time, the US has violated every treaty and Native Americans have never violated even one of them. So the question is why would anyone that lives on a reservation, where there is little or no employment, because of restrictions on companies building businesses on Rez land, want to be a part of a nation that continually puts the screws to those that choose not to asimilate into "Civilized People" ? By the term Civilized People, I refer to the 5 so called Civilized Tribes, that inspite of adopting European ways of living, were forced to march, at gunpoint, from their homes in the SE US, to the state of Oklahoma. Its called the Trail of Tears. As for the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, and Cheyanne, they are still being punished for giving George Custer the education he so desparately needed.

    • Good for you Ken Keith! In Oklahoma the feds are trying to take over water resources on reservation lands. The Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation are fighting as we speak/type.....

      • The Lakota Souix are especially Traditional as a whole. 

  • I just wonder, how they will deal with the real separation, when the government will stop their support with the tax money...I hope that Canadian Indians will do the same. That will save millions of dollars for us, the tax payers.

  • If there was anybody in this country that got screwed,it was the Indians.

    May have to move there if its successful.

  • Russell Means has been causing trouble since the early 70s.  He started the American Indian Movement (AIM) to try and stir up trouble.  His activities cost taxpayers a lot in police overtime. He traveled through the South West causing trouble trying to stir up action in the Navajo tribe, the Zuni Tribe, the Acoma Tribe as well as some tribes in Arizona.  He was thrown off the Navajo Reservation by the reservation police so he went north to South Dakota and caused problems in 1973 at Wounded Knee.  He got a FBI agent killed at Wounded Knee.  I say, let them leave.  Put up a fence and do not allow them into the USA without a recognized passport (recognized by the USA)  The Bureau of Indian Affairs should shut off all money to the tribe.  Once the people start to starve, then they will throw Russel Means out on his ear.   The land has some minerals, but if they cannot get the machinery into their "country" it will be hard to mine or drill.   One other really neat thing is that the Sioux reservation(s) are separated, so they will not be able to travel between the Sioux reservations.  Seems that Means hasn't thought this thing through...as usual.

    • I live in South Dakota.  Not a PEEP about this in the local media.

    • @ Fred Fleming: I should think that any number of foreign nations would be happy to negotiate a contract to come in and do any work requiring heavy equipment, and that equipment could come in by air, could it not?

      Means spoke of developing wind and solar power in the area, sufficient to supply the entire USA. To contract with the Lakota Nation to provide such power would seem to be within the province of the several states, would it not? With so large a share of the natural resources located within the boundaries of the LN, and the US having no real alternative energy plan in place, why would the Lakotas be starving?

      They are already accruing offers of financial and other assistance from both US citizens and other nations who are anxious to invest in this 'new country'....

      • I know so little about this issue. But I am certainly interested in it. I do know New Mexico has many hurting Native Americans. I don't understand why they are suffering. I have heard they have a huge alcohol problem. But is it out of proportion to the rest of country? If so why? Is it reservation life?  So much to learn.

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