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Mohawk Warriors Support Lakota Nation     
Tuesday, January 08 2008 @ 08:55 PM PST
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The history of Lakota with the U.S. is long, complex and tragic. They knew 
something had to change. After the Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973, the 
International Indian Treaty Council was established. From June 8 to 16 1974 
the Council called for a “Western Hemisphere”Conference at Standing Rock 
Sioux. Over 5000 delegates of 97Indigenous Peoples from the Americas 
gathered. The “manifesto”that was created on that occasion supports the 
rights of all Indigenous Peoples to live free and take whatever actions are 
necessary to uphold our sovereignty.

Mohawk Warriors Support Lakota Nation

Mohawk Warriors support Lakotas' withdrawl from the US

“LAKOTA NATION” CONFIRMED - THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE U.S. – PRECEDENT FOR 
OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLES? CAN RETHINKING OF “U.S.” & “CANADA” BEFAR BEHIND? 
[Story of the year]

By Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News

Dec. 25, 2007. The times, they are a changin’. Go to the 
http://www.lakotafreedom.com/ website. There you’ll see Canupa GluhaMani of 
the Strong Heart Warrior Society of the Lakota Nation cutting up his colonial 
driver’s license. He’s doing this because on December17th 2007 the Lakota 
delivered their “Declaration of Continuing Independence," just in time for 
the Winter Solstice.

The history of Lakota with the U.S. is long, complex and tragic. They knew 
something had to change. After the Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973, the 
International Indian Treaty Council was established. From June 8 to 16 1974 
the Council called for a “Western Hemisphere”Conference at Standing Rock 
Sioux. Over 5000 delegates of 97Indigenous Peoples from the Americas 
gathered. The “manifesto”that was created on that occasion supports the 
rights of all Indigenous Peoples to live free and take whatever actions are 
necessary to uphold our sovereignty.

It is rumored that President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, a powerful world 
leader, said today that he is considering recognizing the Lakota as an 
independent nation. Withdrawing from the treaties is entirely legal. It is 
within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and putinto 
effect by the U.S. and the rest of the international community in 1980.
The Lakota never relinquished their lands and have always refused to accept 
payment estimated close to $1 billion to give up their sovereignty and 
nationhood. Offering to buy us out means they are acknowledging our 
sovereignty.

They declared the obvious. The lands belong to the various Indigenous peoples 
and are clearly defined by the treaties. Where there are no treaties, the 
U.S. and Canada are squatters. Plain and simple! The indigenous people have 
the same rights under international law as anyone else, whether a country 
chooses to acknowledge it or not,as in South Africa. Our vast tracts of land, 
which have been cared for by our ancestors, continue to be ours despite the 
delusional fraudulent claims of the colonizing states.Treaties concluded 
through bribery and with colonial puppets,instead of with valid 
representatives of our people, are not legal.

It should be borne in mind that most, not all, of the treaties ever made with 
the colonizers granted them only very limited rights that fall far short of 
the greedy advantages they imagined. They had no intention of ever living up 
to any treaty. They were hellbent on stealing everything. The U.S. and Canada 
came as profiteers and fraudulently tried to steal all our assets.

Such documents were concocted in clear violation of international law then 
and now. This requires the informed consent of the people concerned. No state 
can incorporate another unless a clear majority of the people has expressed 
consent through fairly conducted democratic processes based on a clear 
question.

The Six Nations Confederacy and the Algonquins are the titleholders of most 
of the eastern half of what is known as the colonies of Canada and 
northeastern U.S. Our Indigenous laws prohibit alienation of our lands. We 
hold them as trustees for the coming unborn generations. We refuse to 
surrender our lands. The implementation of the Indian Act and federal Indian 
law is genocidal.According to article VI of the U.S. Constitution, treaties 
represent the Supreme Law of the Land binding each party to an inviolable 
international relationship. Those without treaties with the colonists hold 
their lands independent and free. The only legal authority is Indigenous. 
Article II sets out the primary nation-to-nation relationship.

In Canada Section 109 of the British North America Act 1867 respects the 
primary authority of the Indigenous peoples.The U.S. and Canada have violated 
the independent Indigenous Peoples by “clerical” action, edicts and 
pronouncements violating our international treaty rights and authority.

The Lakota declaration of withdrawal from the Treaty of Laramie 1868is vested 
in the power of the Lakota people and the children. One individual does not 
represent the nation. The nation represents the individual. The withdrawal is 
for the people, elders, mothers, father sand children including the unborn 
faces beneath the ground.

The Treaty of Laramie was never honored. It’s been a colonial catastrophe, 
which was not its intent on our part. Indigenous children are still being 
taken away putting them out of balance from learning the traditional life 
ways. The true way is to be free and left to govern and look after our own 
with the teachings of the animal nations. This is about the Lakota Nation and 
the Animal People who are no longer here. “We are the Lakota Nation of 
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota,Wyoming and Montana”. We are alerting 
the Family of Nations of our action with the backing of Indigenous, 
international and U.S. law.

Should all Indigenous nations of Onowaregeh, Turtle Island, assert our 
freedom and independence, what would happen? The action of the“Lakota” is 
going to have repercussions far and wide.The colonists would go out of 
business, especially the oligarchs. They would have to work out agreements 
with all the Indigenous people on whose land they are squatting. 
Indigenous “liens” on buildings,development, resource extraction and all 
activities on our land will have to be governed and executed by us. Each 
Indigenous nation will assert our power over our lands, assets and resources. 
The colonies of U.S.and Canada will just have to become law abiding. They 
will have to learn to respect indigenous and international law. This will not 
bring catastrophe for the ordinary people living on our land. They just have 
to come to terms with the reality that they are living within our 
jurisdiction,that they are visitors on our land and that they are required to 
follow our law.The pointlessness of their former reliance on their 
handpicked “Indian”puppets set up by the colonial Indian Act band councils 
and federal Indian law tribal councils will become obvious. These sell-outs 
will have to live amongst their relatives without colonial power and 
support.Whisky, money and guns will lose their mystical attraction.
The Lakota call upon the world to support this struggle for sovereignty and 
treaty rights. They pledge their assistance to all sovereign people who seek 
their independence.The Lakota have invited those living on their lands to 
join them. Lakota will issue permits to them, passports, driver’s licenses 
and other documents. Living there would be tax free providing the residents 
renounce their U.S. citizenship.

The Lakotah are to open negotiations with the State Department of the U.S. 
government to establish diplomatic relations. They are setting up offices in 
Washington and New York City.Are we going to see the other nations of Turtle 
Island asserting sovereignty? Don’t let those “dirty rotten lawyers” meddle 
or intervene.They’re not the ones who decide what the law is. The law belongs 
to the people. As our ancestors told us, “One nation will take the issue so 
far.Then another will take it further. Until we all regain everything that is 
ours”.So who’s next?

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News