While I am tempted to issue some pronouncement on the validity or lack thereof regarding recent declarations of Lakotah sovereignty and secession, in all reality I must admit that there may be more rational and/or reasonable responses to the facts as we know them. Take, for example, the relative lack of any serious indigenous challenge to the Lakota Freedom Delegation; this could mean many things.
On the one hand, who among the Lakotah wouldn't want to live apart from Uncle Sam. Some, I am sure and it is likely that the strongest and most passionate voices for secession among the Lakotah people go relatively unheard as, with all communities, it is the richest amongst such that are actually online at all. America, as a community, is one of the rich sections of the global economy.
Still, should we dare to guess the motivations of people we have colonized? Are we not, as well, colonized ourselves, allowing for the snitch culture to have thrived to this point?
This is a human issue and to that I will always give respect but more importantly, this is a First Nations issue and I have done my part. I am not Lakotah. The ball is now in the tribes' hands and they just might take decades to make a play but, I assure you, things are underway. Watch out for a new kind of "red scare" complete with COINTELPRO tactics and media complicity.
Perhaps these are the proverbial pebbles that start an avalanche. Keep an historical perspective. It won't happen overnight and it won't be televised!
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