This sounds strange, but part of me hopes that this doesn't get taken seriously, because if it does, I fear for the Lakotans very much. If the US government truly believes they intend to do this, it could get pretty ugly.
Still, it will be fascinating to watch the process play out. I lived in Hawaii for a couple of years, and there are a lot of people there who mumble about secession, but none of them have any plans to do it.
I understand and sympathize with their plight, but I size this up as "right thing, wrong way." They make two sets of somewhat overlapping complaints. The first are about treaty violations; the second are about cultural violations. The treaty violations are the political justification for seceding, and in a way I hope they do. (They'll be a landlocked nation, though. They better get a corridor to Canada.) But those complaints are about things that American politicans and soldiers who aren't alive any more did to their ancestors.
Probably the more important complaint is about cultural violations: stealing their culture, making their younguns turn to drugs and such. Secession isn't gauranteed to solve that problem, and all the effort they're expending on that project is time not spent on the the real problem. If they're worried about their dying culture and their troubled youth, then they should work on that directly. Take their culture back, whatever that means, and take care of their kids. Unfortunately, they're not gonna get their young ones to come live with them on the reservation; European culture is too interesting for that. They will have to find a way to compete with that on its own level. And that will be a lot more difficult than this political solution.
I totally, 100% support the actions of the Lakota nation. For change to happen someone actually has to DO something. It's good to see people taking action instead of being sheeples.
That's pretty cool IMO. I'm sure they have already thought of all the needs for their new country. IE: Gas, airports, travel, economics - etc. This sorta stuff just doesn't happen overnight.
I just wrote Lakota an email requesting more information about themselves. I think I would love to live there! or at least visit for a few years :)
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Date: 2007-12-20 05:06 pm (UTC)As pointed out in the article though, these people are not the leaders of their nation, just a few groups of activists.
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Date: 2007-12-20 08:47 pm (UTC)Still, it will be fascinating to watch the process play out. I lived in Hawaii for a couple of years, and there are a lot of people there who mumble about secession, but none of them have any plans to do it.
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Date: 2007-12-21 12:26 am (UTC)Probably the more important complaint is about cultural violations: stealing their culture, making their younguns turn to drugs and such. Secession isn't gauranteed to solve that problem, and all the effort they're expending on that project is time not spent on the the real problem. If they're worried about their dying culture and their troubled youth, then they should work on that directly. Take their culture back, whatever that means, and take care of their kids. Unfortunately, they're not gonna get their young ones to come live with them on the reservation; European culture is too interesting for that. They will have to find a way to compete with that on its own level. And that will be a lot more difficult than this political solution.
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Date: 2007-12-21 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-21 06:59 pm (UTC)I just wrote Lakota an email requesting more information about themselves.
I think I would love to live there! or at least visit for a few years :)