Are the Sioux Lakotas right to claim their independence from USA?

That is historically true for any united states dealings with indians before present day. It is more a moral question as to whether or not they have the right to claim independence, but as we did take all native American lands for our own, kill and put them on reservations, and displace them for our own gain- they can do pretty much whatever they want.

No treaties signed by any Native American peoples and the US governments has ever been respected by either side.

This is the traditional and natural way of things for Native Americans, who were constantly at war with each other even before Columbus; temporary treaties between warring tribes would last only until one side or the other decided to break the terms of the treaty and go back to stealing horses, capturing women and children, burning villages and torturing captive warriors.

The treaties signed by "loafer chiefs" among the Lakotahs prior to Red Cloud's War were always expected to be broken by one side or the other; that's what treaties were for. Those treaties were broken by Red Cloud and his followers such as Crazy Horse, American Horse and Touch-the-Clouds; they could just as easily have been broken by the whites.

The fact is that it doesn't matter one bit who did what to who in the past; the USA is what it is now and no American Indian Movement will change that - any warlike moves will simply result in more bloodshed and will change nothing.

The Sioux have EVERY right to claim independance. They are a sovereign nation just like all other Native American Indian tribes that are left over. IF the US government ever pays up what they owe, the Native American's of every tribe will be very well off as the US gov. owes them BILLIONS of dollars for mineral rights and other lands that the gov. bought from them.

Read up on the issues and I'm sure you'll see I'm right. Most tribes have their own web site. Research it and you'll learn a lot.

Native American's are free and always will be. It takes a powerful spirit and heart to survive in the face of one of the top countries in the world. Remember that.

I wasn't aware that the Lakota were asking for independence from the USA. When did this happen? How come tribal members living off the res weren't told?

Well they certainly have a lot of justice on their side. I don't know if every treaty was broken, but certainly the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the most important one, was. The Lakota have never accepted the loss of the Black Hills, which has deep religious significance for them. On your second question, NO.

Historically they were not treated fairly but the fact still remains, no class of people can be a sovereign nation living within the boundaries of the U.S. The Indian situation remains that they are wards of this country.

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