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From the "Report by the American Indian Law Alliance, Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council"
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boundaries as set in the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties
between the Tetuwan Oyate and the United States of America is the
territory of this document. This is in effect as long as the
grass grows and the rivers flow. We stand on these treaties in
reaffirming our inherent sovereignty as the Tetuwan Oyate and of
the Oglala Band of the Tetuwan Oyate. We officially declare the
former Oglala Sioux Tribal Administration Building (Formerly Red
Cloud Building) as the Tetuwan Oyate International Headquarters,
along with the area around the sanctuary of the Cannupa
Wakan of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and all other Tiwahe
Cannupa Wakan kept in the Headquarters at the Pine Ridge Agency
within the Dakota Territory.
The Grass Roots Oglala Lakota Oyate
represents the Oglala people of Lakota Ancestry who announce
their claim as part of the peta sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of
the Tetuwan Oyate (Sioux Nation) and are the original caretakers
of the land within the Treaties of 1851 and 1868. With the Tiwahe
(family) being the smallest unit of the Oyate and that, the
sovereignty of our Oyate lies within the individuals of each
Tiwahe. We claim our Sovereignty as Oglala Lakota People.
Lakota Ikce Wicasa lives under the direction of the Cannupa Wakan and Natural Law. These are the only forms of
governance that will enable us to regain the natural balance with
all creation once again. The Cannupa Wakan has
always been and will remain adequate to keep the Lakota Nation
abreast every encounter with outside forces including the United
States Government.
The US government implemented many
different destructive and abusive strategies to assimilate the
Lakota People into mainstream America. The safety and happiness
of the people and their future is yet to come as they are
presently severely jeopardized. When a system does not work such
as the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) political system, the only
proper and just course of action necessary to insure the survival
of the people is to abolish the political system. This system in
power connects us to another government when we have our own form
of government. A separation will enable us to embrace the Laws of
Nature as we have done in the past generations, as this is our
inherent right as Lakota People. Furthermore it provides
protection during this peaceful transition of power and authority
back to the people, along with the human rights desired, with the
finances, and other immediate human needs. IRA and its
brainwashing have become an entrenched fact and have divided the
unity of the people and unity is almost an impossible dream. The
IRA Tribal System of governance is a complete failure for the
survival of our future generations. An organization cannot speak
for a Nation of Peoples.
The Treaties with the Tetuwan Lakota
Oyate were made on a Nation to Nation basis with the United
States of America and the Tetuwan Lakota Oyate, so all business
between the two nations must be done according to the treaties.
We declare that a Three-fourths Vote of our adult male was never
instituted as is written in the Treaties for the
implementation of any act
or amendment pertaining to the Lakota people. Therefore, the IRA
of 1934 , without the three-fourth vote of our people, is illegal
in their form of government, and is presently operating
illegally. This system was forced on our people without proper
approval and it is designed to fail. This is evident within the
state of unrest of our people.
The US Supreme Court decisions on
January 10,1987; July 14, 1991; June 6,1993; and the January
16,2000 takeover reaffirm the Tetuwan Oyate sovereignty. We have
never been anything less than that, despite the best efforts of
the US government to convince us that we are not sovereign. BELOW
are the provisions that safeguard the future security of the
Tetuwan Lakota Oyate: - Therefore, we , the Grass Roots
Oglala Lakota Oyate do hereby declare our Independence from the
dictatorship reigning over the great Tetuwan Oyate/ Oglala Band
and demand our Sovereign Immunity Rights as entitled in the 1851
and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties between the United States and the
Tetuwan Lakota Oyate.
- All legal remedies have been
exhausted within the US Justice System and can see no other
recourse but to take our case to the World Court.
- We renounce the IRA system along with
all the rights , responsibilities, and Privileges derived. An
organization cannot speak for a Nation of peoples.
- We re-establish and reaffirm the
legally agreed upon territorial boundaries of the Tetuwan Oyate
as defined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties.
- We announce our intention to
completely disengage from any further control Alternatively,
supervision presently exercised upon us by the United States
Government and it's agents (BIA/IRA); we intend to implement the
protection and of the intervention of the United Nations Security
Council, the General Assembly, and Human Rights Commission to
monitor and oversee the orderly transfer of power and authority
back to the people.
- In furtherance of our firm insistence upon
full and strict compliance of all articles in the 1851 & 1868
Treaties, we establish the Tetuwan Lakota Oyate International
Headquarters.
- The fact that the 3/4 vote needed to alter our Treaties
as stated was never instituted and therefore dictates to us as
Tetuwan Oyate that all Acts or Amendments that the U.S. passed
after 1868 is without approval from the Lakota people are hereby
deemed unconstitutional and illegal.
Report by the American Indian Law Alliance
Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council
Oyate Wolakota Omniciye
Tetuwan Oyate
Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council Treaty Gathering
June 29 & 30, 2001 The Black Hills
Commission on Human Rights
Working Group on Indigenous Populations
July 23-27, 2001 Geneva, Switzerland
Update on the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
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Introduction
Oyate Wolakota Omniciye
World Court Case
Takeover, Embassy & Traditional Government (included in World Court Case PDF file)
Permanent Forum Presentation
Conclusion (included in above Permanent Forum PDF file)
Summary Report on the Working Group on Indigenous Populations by the American Indian Law Alliance
Update on the Permanent Forum
Attachments
Official Proclamation of the Grass Roots Oyate (attachment 1)
United Nations Chart, Background and Information on the Permanent Forum (attachment 2)
Resolution of the Oyate Wolakota Omnicity (attachment 3)
Agenda of the Indigenous Caucus in Geneva (attachment 4)
Questions for Ambassador Ivan Simonovic of ECOSOC (attachment 5)
Danish Resolution on the Permanent Forum (attachment 6)
Provisional Agenda of the Working Group (attachment 7)
Kenneth Deer Proposal for an Indigenous Office (attachment 8)
Intervention by Tonya Gonnella Frichner on Development (attachment 9)
Intervention by Kent Lebsock on Development & the Grass Roots Oyate (attachment 10)
Willie Littlechild Intervention before ECOSOC on behalf of the Indigenous Caucus (attachment 11)
Indigenous Peoples Caucus Intervention on Developent (attachment 12)
Position on the Continuation of the Working Group (attachment 13)
Intervention by Rosalie Little Thunder (attachment 14)
Intervention by Sammy Toineeta (attachment 15)
Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (attachment 16)
Intervention by Tony Black Feather (attachment 17)
Intervention by Wizipan Garriot (attachment 18)
Letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations (attachment 19)
Letter to the High Commissioner on the North American delegate to the Permanent Forum (attachment 20)
More information on the Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues at the United Nations page under Related Issues.
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