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The Republic of Lakotah or Lakotah is a proposed independent republic in North America for the Lakota people. The idea of an independent nation of the Lakota was advanced in 2007 by activist Russell Means and the Lakota Freedom Movement .
If the tribal jurisdiction rejected being members of both the USA whom removed these peoples and relocated them in the 1830's and state of Oklahoma (the western part) since 1907, the Indian Nations Republic of (Eastern) Oklahoma can be the world's first Native American republic. Mike D 26 23:41, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
[14] In December 2007, while a resident of Porcupine, he joined with members of the American Indian Movement, and "dropped in on the State Department and the embassies of Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and South Africa ... seeking recognition for their effort to form a free and independent Lakota nation," to be known as the Republic of Lakotah. [15]
Means declared "The Republic of Lakotah", defining it as a sovereign nation with property rights over thousands of square miles in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. [38] The group stated that they do not act for or represent the tribal governments "set up by the BIA or those Lakota who support the BIA system of government".
Touch the Clouds, photo by James H. Hamilton, Spotted Tail Agency, Nebraska, in the fall of 1877. This is a list of notable people of Lakota ancestry.. Arthur Amiotte (Waŋblí Ta Hóčhoka Wašté) (born 1942), Oglala artist, educator, curator, and author
The Wood Mountain First Nation (Lakota: Tatanka Iyutaka Lakota Oyate, also spelt as Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake Lakȟóta Oyáte) is a Lakota First Nations band government in southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
Floyd Westerman (August 17, 1936 – December 13, 2007) was a Sisseton Dakota musician, political activist, and actor. After establishing a career as a country music singer, later in his life he became an actor, usually depicting Native American elders in American films and television.
Before 1843 explorers give no reference to this subdivision. The band appeared to number 800 people. At the usual average of seven people per lodge, that would make about 115 lodges (tepees when unoccupied), equating to 230 warriors at the norm of two per lodge.