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Lakota Nation Repudiates Treaty, Secedes From US

This is like a dream for the state's rights folks, isn't it? Obviously, states can't do this, because they were not created by treaty, but self-determination is the bedrock upon which state's rights are built, right?
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The move to form an independent nation will focus on property rights in a five-state area where the treaties in question were drawn up. The states include South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana ? areas that the group say have been illegally homesteaded for years despite knowledge of Lakota as the historic owners.

If the U.S. government does not immediately enter into diplomatic negotiations, the group said in a news release, liens will be filed on real-estate transactions across the region -- an action it says could cloud title issues over thousands of square miles of land and property.

The Federalist in me thinks that the Indian Wars just started up again. This is like a dream for the state's rights folks, isn't it? Obviously, states can't do this, because they were not cre... more

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