Lakota Nation seceedes from the Union

[dogtowner]

oh dear !

with the oil biz booming there I'd want that action too !

President Barack Obama has an unexpected foreign policy problem – in the Western United States. The Lakota Sioux nation has seceded from the United States, according to a story on the anti-American website La Voz de Aztlan.

“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time Native American radical leader Russell Means said. The move potentially impacts the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

 

[Centrehalf]

Russell Means is still alive? I remember that guy causing trouble from way back.

 

[PLC1]

oh dear !

with the oil biz booming there I'd want that action too !

The other residents of the states involved might just have something to say about the secession.

 

[Cruella]

The other residents of the states involved might just have something to say about the secession.

I thought that native Americans were already an independent nation.

 

[dogtowner]

I thought that native Americans were already an independent nation.

sort of likepuerto rico maybe ?

 

[Cruella]

sort of likepuerto rico maybe ?

Wasn't it part of some treaty?

 

[PLC1]

I thought that native Americans were already an independent nation.

They are not an independent nation, but are independent from the state where they are located. That is how they hit on the idea of maintaining gambling casinos on tribal lands in states that don't allow gambling.

 

[Cruella]

Anyone watch the series "Into The West"? It's really good. About the building of the railroad coast to coast and what happened to the Indians. Another one I like is "Hell on Wheels". It's also about building the railroad.