NEWS: Shit. We Have To Start Killing Indians Again

POLITICS: Shit. We Have To Start Killing Indians Again

No, not Indians from India, the other kind. I’m talking about American Indians. American indigenous peoples or whatever. I don’t know what to call anyone, anymore. I’m writing about the guys who were here first. The ones we white folks had a little genocide thingy with. They are getting uppity again. In this case it is a tribe from Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

Oh, shit. Did you guys not see what we did to Iraq? We didn’t even have a good reason, we just made stuff up and turned their country into shit and now you are breaking free? Good luck with that.

Ha! How the hell are you going to make money? Huh?

Lakota leaders went to the State Department on Monday to announce that they were withdrawing from treaties with the US. They also stopped by the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies to tell them what was up. Over the next few months they will travel across the world to meet with foreign countries.

I can think of a few million Americans who would jump on board. We love our free stuff but hate our taxes.

The Lakota are a band of seven tribes that speak three different dialects. There are approximately 100,000 Lakota people living in the five state area.



According to their leaders, America has not been treating them so well.

Okay, we may have made a couple of little violations, like in 1868, when the US government signed a treaty exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. But we didn’t know there was gold in them hills. Four years later, gold was discovered and we charged in with help from guys like General George Armstrong Custer.

We also kind of massacred a bunch of Lakota at Wounded Knee. Not really sure how that fit into the treaty. But massacres were totally en vogue back then. The Lakota are apparently within their legal rights to end their treaty with the US.

In September the United Nations passed a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. The US was, of course, opposed. But it gave the Lakota the juice they needed to make their big move.

Life has not been going great for the Lakota while under US rule. Lakota men currently have the shortest life span expectancies in the world; just 44 years. Teen suicide rates are 150% higher than in the US. Infant mortality is five times higher than the US – and our infant mortality rate is atrocious.

I wish them luck but they have no chance. If there is one mineral or a drop of water on their land we will not let them go. We are the United States of America and they are our victims. End of story.

Why....... Man I got nothing here this is just going to end horribly for all people involved......

for some reason the only thing that keeps popping into my head is Petoria... Good luck with that whole 'new country' idea.

I wonder if this counts as supporting terrorism?

Good for them! If they opened an East Coast branch, I'd give it serious thought...

Speaking as a local, more power to them. I hope they can make it stick.

i am holding out hope for a renegotiation of treaties, public apologies for the treaty violations at issue here, and it leading to the drastic improvement of the quality of life on on current(/former?) reservations.

i don't believe it will happen, as i'm sure Lincoln and the Civil Wary might be cited as precedence. if the administration even bothers with even that much of an explanation for whatever thuggish actions it takes.

...wow, that's really something I didn't expect to see happen in my lifetime.

I'd be really surprised if it went well, though. We have a history of squishing people who want to take territory away from us, and that's under administrations much more reasonable than this one.

i fully support the Lakota Sioux and their decision

good luck lakota peoples

Interesting. I have a Lakotan dollar on the administration not even responding to them--damn uppity indians.

Agreed.

Fixed.

Let's not forget the way we treat indiginous women.

Yeah, it'd be nice to see this government start treating the Lakota and all the rest of the Native Americans in this country with some fucking respect. They're people too, ffs.

Do you know why?

I totally support the Lakota. Passport plz? <3

It's considered derogatory. The term originated from another Nation's name for them, and was widely believed to mean "snake."

I don't know specifics, myself. But from what I recall the names the American colonists gave to the various indigenous tribes often came from rival tribes who, as one might suspect, did not have complimentary things to say about them.

Gotcha, thanks you two. All hail linguistic self-determination.

That'd be my guess, too. Or else taking them to court to squeeze some money out of them for this somehow. Or perhaps just taking it as an excuse for seizing and parcelling out all reservation land for Cheney's favorite golfing-companions.

There's about three ways this could end and none of them are very favorable outcomes for the Lakota.

This makes me so happy and so sad at the same time. I wonder where John Trudell is in all of this?

Lakota Power!

just using what was written.

And I meant no offence by the correction.