GRASS ROOTS OGLALA LAKOTA OYATE

Official Proclamation

     The 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.

     The " 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
of 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:

     1. 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.
     2. 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.
     3. We renounce the IRA system along with all the rights , responsibilities, and Privileges derived. An organization cannot speak for a Nation of peoples.
     4. We re-establish and reaffirm the legally agreed upon territorial boundaries of the Tetuwan Oyate as defined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties.
     5. 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.
    6. 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.
  7. 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.

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