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Feel free. Here is more, from my archives:
Posted 22 December 2007 01:03 PM
- LAKOTA SECEDE FROM U.S. AND ALL TREATIES
- http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA
Folks, the Lakota People within the Sioux Nation have disacknowledged all treaties with the United States government and are seceding and proclaiming themselves an independent nation. As well, some are declaring the northern Great Plains a place for wild bison without cattle and their accompanying fences and are talking about bringing Yellowstone's besieged wild bison herds to this region for good. This is not a rumor; Putin has even chimed in on the side of the Lakota! This is one of those stories I am asking you, personally, the reader, to pass on as far and wide as possible. Let this story not die!
This is what I have so far. I have pasted pieces of emails for the sake of speed:
ONE PERSON WRITES:
This story VANISHED from the net almost as fast as it arrived.
It says that the Lakota Souix, one band of the Great Sioux Nation, has WITHDRAWN from all treaties with the US Government and is seeking recognition as an INDEPENDENT NATION!
I have included part of their message from the official Lakota web site. It states the obvious.
Other reasons given are the theft of the Black Hills, a conclusion that was arrived by the US Supreme Court. Included in this is a call to return over a billion dollars in gold taken from the Black Hills, which was determined to be owned by the Lakota.
From their web site:
*We are the freedom loving Lakota* from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system we have been forced to live under. We are in Washington DC to withdraw from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law.
For far too long our people have suffered at the hands of the colonial apartheid system imposed on the Lakota Sioux. Our treaties with the United States government are nothing more than worthless words on worthless paper -repeatedly violated in order to steal our culture, our land and our abilityto maintain our way of life.
*The devastation this has wrought is clear: *
· Lakota men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti.
· The Lakota infant mortality rate is 5x the U.S. Average.
· The Tuberculosis rate on Lakota reservations is approx 800% higher than the U.S national average.
· 97% of our Lakota people live below the poverty line.
· Unemployment rates on our reservations are approximately 85%.
· Teenage suicide rate is 150% higher than the U.S national average for this group.
· Our Lakota language is an Endangered Language, on the verge of extinction
*LAKOTA**
**Lakota Freedom Delegation
Mitaku Oyasin: We Are All Related*
http://www.lakotafreedom.com/about.htmlANOTHER RESEARCHER WRITES:
I wanted to introduce to all of you the story about the Lakota Nation breaking all treaties with the United States and declaring its independence. I am proud to know that a native tribe has taken such a stand.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317548,00.html
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1220-02.htm
http://www.russellmeans.com/
http://www.lakotafreedom.com..AND YET ANOTHER PERSON SENT ME THIS:
This message is so important that I have reposted it under this title.
Here is a section from the Lakota website
http://www.lakotafreedom.com/
Freedom! Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status
Threaten Land Liens, Contested Real Estate Over Five State Area in U.S. West
Lakota Satisfies Treaty Council Mandate of 33 Years, Drafted by 97 Indigenous Nations
Dakota Territory Reverts back to Lakota Control According to U.S., International Law
Washington D.C. – Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status today in Washington D.C. following Monday's withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner, Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department, immediately and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties at Fort Laramie Wyoming.
"This is an historic day for our Lakota people," declared Russell Means, Itacan of Lakota. "United States colonial rule is at its end!"
"Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and with the knowledge of the Great Spirit," shared Garry Rowland from Wounded Knee. "They never honored the treaties, that's the reason we are here today."
The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor Russell Means, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) founder Phyllis Young, Oglala Lakota Strong Heart Society leader Duane Martin Sr., and Garry Rowland, Leader Chief Big Foot Riders. Means, Rowland, Martin Sr. were all members of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover.
"In order to stop the continuous taking of our resources – people, land, water and children- we have no choice but to claim our own destiny," said Phyllis Young, a former Indigenous representative to the United Nations and representative from Standing Rock.
Property ownership in the five state area of Lakota now takes center stage. Parts of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana have been illegally homesteaded for years despite knowledge of Lakota as predecessor sovereign [historic owner]. Lakota representatives say if the United States does not enter into immediate diplomatic negotiations, liens will be filed on real estate transactions in the five state region, clouding title over literally thousands of square miles of land and property.
Young added, "The actions of Lakota are not intended to embarrass the United States but to simply save the lives of our people".
Following Monday's withdrawal at the State Department, the four Lakota Itacan representatives have been meeting with foreign embassy officials in order to hasten their official return to the Family of Nations.
Lakota's efforts are gaining traction as Bolivia, home to Indigenous President Evo Morales, shared they are "very, very interested in the Lakota case" while Venezuela received the Lakota delegation with "respect and solidarity."
"Our meetings have been fruitful and we hope to work with these countries for better relations," explained Garry Rowland. "As a nation, we have equal status within the national community."
Education, energy and justice now take top priority in emerging Lakota. "Cultural immersion education is crucial as a next step to protect our language, culture and sovereignty," said Means. "Energy independence using solar, wind, geothermal, and sugar beets enables Lakota to protect our freedom and provide electricity and heating to our people."
The Lakota reservations are among the most impoverished areas in North America, a shameful legacy of broken treaties and apartheid policies. Lakota has the highest death rate in the United States and Lakota men have the lowest life expectancy of any nation on earth, excluding AIDS, at approximately 44 years. Lakota infant mortality rate is five times the United States average and teen suicide rates 150% more than national average . 97% of Lakota people live below the poverty line and unemployment hovers near 85%.
"After 150 years of colonial enforcement, when you back people into a corner there is only one alternative," emphasized Duane Martin Sr. "The only alternative is to bring freedom into its existence by taking it back to the love of freedom, to our lifeway."
We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system we have been forced to live under. We are in Washington DC to withdraw from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at www.lakotafreedom.com.
This is what happens when you don't Impeach War-Criminals. Frozynsoel
DESCENDANTS OF SITTING BULL, CRAZY HORSE BREAK AWAY FROM U.S. - AFP
December 20, 2007
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA
WASHINGTON - The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriorsSitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the
United States, leaders said Wednesday.
"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.
A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.
They also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and will continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months, they told the news conference.
Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.
The treaties signed with the United States are merely "worthless words on worthless paper," the Lakota freedom activists say on their website.
The treaties have been "repeatedly violated in order to steal our culture, our land and our ability to maintain our way of life," the reborn freedom ovement says.
Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said.
"This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution, which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land," he said.
"It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent," said Means.
The Lakota relaunched their journey to freedom in 1974, when they drafted a declaration of continuing independence -- an overt play on the title of the United States' Declaration of Independence from England.
Thirty-three years have elapsed since then because "it takes critical mass to combat colonialism and we wanted to make sure that all our ducks were in a row," Means said.
One duck moved into place in September, when the United Nations adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples -- despite opposition from the United States, which said it clashed with its own laws.
"We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children," Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference.
The US "annexation" of native American land has resulted in once proud tribes such as the Lakota becoming mere "facsimiles of white people," said Means.
Oppression at the hands of the US government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies -- less than 44 years -- in the world.
Lakota teen suicides are 150 percent above the norm for the United States; infant mortality is five times higher than the US average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movement's website.
"Our people want to live, not just survive or crawl and be mascots," said Young.
"We are not trying to embarrass the United States. We are here to continue the struggle for our children and grandchildren," she said, predicting that the battle would not be won in her lifetime.FINALLY, CHECK THIS OUT:No border walls, no cattle fences!
by Restore the bison to Lakota lands!! Friday, Dec. 21, 2007 at 10:06 AM
No apartheid border walls will be built around the Lakota Nation. We'll leave that sort of segregationist nonsense to the Israeli government. In addition, removal of cattle fences and restoration of bison migratory range should take place ASAP throughout the Great Plains region. Consider this a bison free space within and around the Lakota Nation..
The current population of Yellowstone bison scheduled for execution by Montana cattle ranchers and their hired federal government assassins could instead be transported alive and well to the new Lakota Nation. There's already a group working on this, the ITBC attempts to restore the migratory bison throughout their ancestral territory, including of course the Lakota Nation..
ITBC statement;
"The American buffalo, also known as bison, has always held great meaning for American Indian people. To Indian people, buffalo represent their spirit and remind them of how their lives were once lived, free and in harmony with nature. In the 1800's, the white-man recognized the reliance Indian tribes had on the buffalo. Thus began the systematic destruction of the buffalo to try to subjugate the western tribal nations. The slaughter of over 60 million buffalo left only a few hundred buffalo remaining.
Without the buffalo, the independent life of the Indian people could no longer be maintained. The Indian spirit, along with that of the buffalo, suffered an enormous loss. At that time, tribes began to sign treaties with the U.S. Government in an attempt to protect the land and the buffalo for their future generations. The destruction of buffalo herds and the associated devastation to the tribes disrupted the self-sufficient lifestyle of Indian people more than all other federal policies to date.
To reestablish healthy buffalo populations on tribal lands is to reestablish hope for Indian people. Members of the InterTribal Bison Cooperative (ITBC) understand that reintroduction of the buffalo to tribal lands will help heal the spirit of both the Indian people and the buffalo."
found @;
http://www.itbcbison.com/about.php
To compare the Lakota's attempts at regaining their independence from colonialism to the Zionist state of Israel is invalid for several reasons. For one there is a significant time difference between 70 AD (Roman empire invasion of Jerusalem) and the resulting exodus of Israelis to other lands abroad while the recent invasions of Lakota lands by Euro-american settlers at the orders of the U.S. government occurred post Columbus (1492)..
In addition, the Palestinians whom are currently occupied by Israel military forces are equally as indigenous as the displaced Israelis, and are not themselves responsible for orders of invasion coming from Rome circa 70 AD..
In many cases the cattle ranchers and large corporate agribusiness plantations that currently occupy the Lakota lands are directly involved with U.S. government attempts at land heists and broken treaties with the Lakota. To expect people to survive as natives pre-colonialism did without their source (bison) of food, shelter and clothing is unreasonable. The massive slaughter of the bison by U.S. government forces and the Euro-american settler state are directly correlated with attempts at genocide against the Lakota people..
Furthermore these attacks calling for killing anyone who wishes independence from the U.S. imperialist state will not be accepted. Hereafter this author will support any and all secessionist movements throughout the land known as North America..
We are no longer beholden to the U.S. imperialist's current manifestation of the GW Bush regime. GW Bush will no longer be recognized as commander in cheif by Cascadians. Recommend removal of U.S. military bases from the Cascadia region (WA, OR, CA) ASAP. These military bases will be removed involuntarily if you do not act soon. Think that this is a joke! We in Cascadia are eager to be next in line to secede from U.S. empire. This includes but is not limited to;
Lakota Nation (Great Plains)
Cascadia (Pacific NW)
Newe Sogobia (NV, Great Basin)
Nuevo Aztlan (SW region)
Vermont Independence (NE region)
Secessionists are striving for local control of our bioregion, and removal of intrusive corporations who heist our resources for their profits.The sun will indeed set upon the U.S. imperialists as we know it..
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, speaking in 1873: "I would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from our western plains, in its effect upon the Indians. I would regard it rather as a means of hastening their sense of dependence upon the products of the soil and their own labors."Strongheart Warrior Society: Withdrawl from the treaty is protection
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- Flawed Attempts to Debunk Secession Abound
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This is NOT Means' gig.
The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor Russell Means, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) founder Phyllis Young, Oglala Lakota Strong Heart Society leader Duane Martin Sr., and Garry Rowland, Leader Chief Big Foot Riders. Means, Rowland, Martin Sr. were all members of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover.
No tribal government has stepped up to debunk this.
If there were a reputable voice anywhere that could be summoned to discredit this, then you can bet your bottom dollar that it would be coming out; the national security state would see to it. The idea that someone can secede with that much territory from the United States is not one that those in power can afford to have spread. Much smaller efforts than this but of similar nature have been crushed immediately with tanks and helicopters, among other things, indicating that the U.S. government believes that ANY such effort is a threat.
Organizations and non-organized progressive outfits all over the world, and especially in America, are merely sitting back to see how this pans out and this lack of taking a stand may be what kills it. The media-military complex, I assure you, intends to ignore this and wait for the novelty of this particular news item to wear off but rest assured that potential plans to disrupt, intimidate, and even take out key people regarding all of this are in progress.
I can't believe, to tell you the truth, that in this day and age I have to explain to people (as I have done for days at a variety of forums online) that sitting back and being a spectator in all of this will end up functioning as complicity with the undoing of this movement. They are taking the lead and the only media people or groups expressing solidarity, except for the considerable din of collective individuals online, are from other nations.
Of course this is typical. After all we sit fat in our own retirement-nation. If we just sit back and watch, forfeiting involvement, we ensure the continuation of the status quo.
I think too many of us think this is too good to be true and are looking for that, "Oh yeah…that's the flaw!" It unburdens us from acting. Let us all sit and do nothing, including as many of the Lakota as can be convinced to do just that, and then marvel at how right we were that it didn't materialize into anything. It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Key facts regarding all of this:
1. This is not a rumor; Putin has even chimed in on the side of the Lakota! The president of Bolivia has said that nation is intensely interested in this and Hugo Chavez has expressed solidarity. The Bush junta says it "opposes the measure."
2. The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor Russell Means, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) founder Phyllis Young, Oglala Lakota Strong Heart Society leader Duane Martin Sr., and Garry Rowland, Leader Chief Big Foot Riders. Means, Rowland, Martin Sr. were all members of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover.
3. "We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children," Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference.
4. Russian legal experts further state that of all of the United States Indian Tribes, the Lakota Sioux are the best positioned to have their declaration of independence from the American government recognized by the United Nations as they remain the only indigenous peoples in the US to have refused to accept payment for their lands, estimated to be nearly $1 billion, which they consider their 'sacred grounds' and have stated they would never relinquish.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/12/21/lakota_indians_work_to_secede_from_us/3796/ Many insist Russel Means does not represent the Lakota but in each case, these people refuse to address the fact that this is not Russel Means' gig but that there are four spokespeople that say they've met with many people for years about all of this and foreign heads of state are taking this very seriously.
My understanding is that it is Lakota tradition dictates that no one speaks for the people yet if we are to say that it is legitimate for representatives of the Lakota to sign such treaties, then it is legitimate for representatives to nullify and if it is the representation itself that is being deemed illegitimate then that, in itself, nullifies all the treaties.
Incidentally, Means will always speak more accurately for the TARGETED among the indigenous, i.e. those attempting to retain their culture and not become fully colonialized, than will any tribal council or any other outfit that answers to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This is a call to action.
I EXPECT some or many tribal councils to challenge this, as do all that have struggled against the oppressor. Its importance is directly proportional to the corruption that is the prerequisite for being in league with the United States government. You accept its dictates and that is where the power of most of these councils come from. I know there are Indians all over that might want to hit me on the head with a bat for that one but it is precisely such people whose opinions I am not interested in.Oh, by the way, in the heart of Lakota country, this is in the big papers. In other words, any attempt to verify just how "official" is this statement representing vast sentiment, this declaration of independence, may become irrelevant as the whole countryside, including those in Rapid City, starts talking about this - and they are!
LAKOTA SECEDE FROM U.S. AND ALL TREATIES
Strongheart Warrior Society: Withdrawl from the treaty is protection
[AUDIO] Interview with Canupa Gluha Mani - Lakota Freedom Delegation
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- Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans
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Now let's think this through: five days have elapsed and if any major First Nations spokesperson or group or tribal council is standing against the Lakotah secession, they remain unheard. This is extremely auspicious inofitself. I don't think I am off base when I say that there are responsible individuals and groups amongst First Nations tribes and that, therefore, were this not something everyone concerned really wanted to work then we would have heard something by now. I have personally sent messages to John Trudell and Honor the Earth and this was two days ago. Still nothing.
To my knowledge, each and every of the accumulating mound of objections from many online (any from native leadership remain an exception) cite Russel Means' personal problems as reason to ignore this and, consistently, what is deliberately ignored by these unverifiable sources is that there are three others that will have to be discredited to debunk all of this and, to tell you the truth, now that we can see than nearly everyone (with the exception of some heads of state and some of the world's best known news services) is silent on this all then any sudden proclamation of invalidity would indicate, in all likelihood, that someone sensed a turning of the tide.
Doesn't anyone remember how the French revolution started? We have become such spectators in our very lives that when called to action the people all stand and wait to see if anyone else will answer. Is anyone answering? Word out of Lakotah country seems mixed as well and if nothing else, this stands to be remembered as a few people with chutzpah standing up and challenging the people to take what was theirs and the sheeple answering, "Baa-aaahhh!"
Still, I have hope. After all, each minute that ticks by further validates all of this.
Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans
Sat, December 22, 2007 - 10:00 AMAnd So It Begins
In an incredible irony, the very people that the United States have most oppressed throughout our history may hold the key to freedom for all of us.
Few Americans remember the siege at Wounded Knee in the mid-1970s, but perhaps they should. Members of the AIM, or the American Indian Movement, occupied parts of Pine Ridge in protest over the brutal killings of two of their own, the disgustingly mild prosecutions for those murders, and the beating of the mother of one of those two when she attempted to seek justice from the U.S. government. The AIM were seeking their rights under U.S. law and for the U.S. government to honor treaties with the American Indian that had been ignored for more than a century. It was a lawful - and a peaceful until attacked - protest.
In response, the FBI fired almost 200,000 rounds at the protesters (the protesters did fire weapons in their own defense, but only over their attackers' heads) in an illegal show of force that betrayed every ideal of real freedom. The siege at Wounded Knee lasted 71 days. This was Waco decades before Waco, largely ignored by the U.S. population due to media indifference and the fact that the victims were not white Americans.
Later, the defense team for Russell Means and Dennis Banks was infiltrated by a government informant, which led to perjured testimony and a very angry judge who stated that the government was more interested in convictions than in justice. South Dakota Judge Nichols was quoted as saying, "It's hard for me to believe that the FBI, which I have revered for so long, has stooped so low," and dismissed all charges against the defendants.
Apparently, all those years ago, at least a portion of our justice system still operated as it was designed to do.
Leonard Peltier was not so lucky. He was tried in North Dakota, and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison. He remains there today, even though evidence recovered after the siege clearly showed that the two FBI deaths were attributable to friendly fire. During his years in prison, through his art and letters, Peltier has continued to work for oppressed people everywhere.
Russell Means has remained free, and he has not been idle in the intervening decades. A committed libertarian, he has written several books, run for office on the Libertarian ticket, and continued to pursue a film career that has made him a household face and name. Apart from that, he has bided his time, waiting for just the right moment in history.
That moment has come. In September of this year, the United Nations passed a non-binding Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Naturally, Canada, the United States and Australia refused to sign, but this resolution paved the way for a move that has been waiting in the wings, so to speak, since the 1970s.
On Wednesday of this week, Russell Means led a delegation of the Lakota Sioux people to the U.S. State Department and the embassies of Bolivia, Chile, South Africa and Venezuela, declaring their secession from the United States of America.
Means stated, "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us." The lands of the Lakota Sioux encompass portions of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. In the coming weeks, they will take their diplomatic mission overseas to seek further support.
Means also stated that anyone willing to renounce their U.S. citizenship would live on Lakota land tax free, and that the Lakota would issue their own passports and driving licenses. Since a large group of libertarians have recently moved to Wyoming, this opens up some interesting possibilities for a free society growing up in our midst.
The coming road will not be an easy one. I cannot see the U.S. neo-conservatives leaving this alone. I imagine that there will be another bloody and vicious siege taking place on Lakota land, but I also believe that Means has timed his move correctly. If this happens as I fear it will, the neo-conservatives will be the clear authors of their own destruction. The American people have had enough!
You go, Russell!! You are the bravest and best of us, and the sanest and best of America stands with you in the trials you will face over the coming months and years.
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Kathryn A. Graham, author of Flight From Eden and AmericaThe following was copied from this website:
Steven,Re: Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans
Yesterday, 11:05 PM
Yeah, I've been in touch with some Oglala/Lakota Sioux Indians on the Rez who claim to be "in the loop." They aren't happy with this media exposure 'cause it threatens the "status quo" within the official leadership structure of the Lakota Sioux Nation.
The US government have been playing these rival factions against each other for decades. They play rough and the dangers are REAL.
It's imperative that the International community / press monitor this situation closely. These poor folks have no protection and most of them are dirt poor. Say a prayer for them and spread the word.
''We will prove to every American that America is becoming one big Indian reservation,'' said Mr. Means, who contends that non-Indians face the same danger of losing their land and their rights that Indians have faced for centuries.
''I challenge every American to make a list of what they feel their individual rights are, and then, item by item, find out how much government is interfering with those rights,'' he said. ''I have been trying to throw off the yoke of government interference in our lives since I joined the American Indian Movement.''
- Russell Means, Oglala/Lakota Sioux IndianLAKOTA SECEDE FROM U.S. AND ALL TREATIES
Flawed Attempts to Debunk Secession Abound
Wow!! American Indians Secede From the United States!
Lakota will be WAY Better than Dakota
Lakota Tribes: Stop this country, we want to get off!
Strongheart Warrior Society: Withdrawl from the treaty is protection
[AUDIO] Interview with Canupa Gluha Mani - Lakota Freedom Delegation
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- Strongheart Warrior Society: Withdrawl from the treaty is protection
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"Despite criticism the Delegation does not speak for the Lakota people, Delegation representatives have been in ongoing communication with the traditional chiefs and treaty councils all across Lakota for the last three and a half years. Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) , leader of the Cante Tenza (Strongheart Warrior Society) of the Ogalala Lakota and Oyate Wacinyapin (Russell Means) have been in discussion with the traditional treaty councils across Lakota."
Strongheart Warrior Society: Withdrawl from the treaty is protection
LAKOTA
A Free People, A Free Nation!
Lakota Freedom: Treaty Withdrawal For Elders and Children Sovereignty Action Sparks World Discussion, Disagreement, InspirationBy Lakota Freedom DelegationLakota – What began as sparsely attended press conference announcing Lakota sovereignty has grown into an international roar of freedom inspiring people on every continent and sparking excitement and discussion in homes, tribal councils, schools, and on Internet blogs and message boards.Across Indian Country in particular, the impact of the sovereign action is creating both inspiration and concern as the reality of freedom sinks in. But mixed with the excitement and joy are concerns the Lakota people's needs will not be fully met, especially needs and concerns of the youth.Lakota Freedom delegate and Oglala Lakota Cante Tenza - Strongheart Warrior Society leader Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) issued the following statement after discussion with the Strongheart Grandmothers:"The whole Lakota declaration of withdrawal from the treaty is vested on the power of the Lakota people and our children. When we undertook the process of announcing the withdrawal, the capacity was far greater than most people anticipated about an individual. But throughout our history, the people have never excluded anyone within our own lifeway and when it becomes a listener's view that its about one individual, one individual does not represent the Nation itself, the Nation represents the individual, and that is Lakota. The withdrawal is for the people, the Elders, mothers, fathers, and the children. Throughout our history and through the enforcement of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, Congress said they would oversee the provisions of 1868 (Fort Laramie Treaty), but they failed to do so. Some minor provisions were kept, but overall the treaty was not honored. Because if the treaty was honored, we would not have this colonial catastrophe of alcoholism, drug abuse and poverty and we wouldn't have the overall high incarceration rate of the male and female in the prison populations. This leads to our children being taking away by Social Services which puts our children out of balance from learning the traditional lifeway. When the children can reconnect with who they are, they come back to the process of knowing what is Lakota in the true point of view. In this true point of view, Lakota is about being free and left alone, so we can govern and save our own with the teachings of the Animal Nations. If we can conclude with this statement in the positive venue, its not about Russell Means, and certainly not about Canupa Gluha Mani or any individual, this about the Lakota Nation and the Animal People who are no longer alone."The Lakota Freedom Delegation is the powerful realization of an ongoing process lasting no less than 33 years. Despite criticism the Delegation does not speak for the Lakota people, Delegation representatives have been in ongoing communication with the traditional chiefs and treaty councils all across Lakota for the last three and a half years. Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) , leader of the Cante Tenza (Strongheart Warrior Society) of the Ogalala Lakota and Oyate Wacinyapin (Russell Means) have been in discussion with the traditional treaty councils across Lakota. The traditional treaty councils in the following communities were consulted:
Pine RidgePorcupine
Kyle
Rosebud
Lower Brule
Cheyenne River
Standing Rock
FlandreauAdditional consultation with the treaty council occurred during Defenders of Black Hills meeting in Rapid City. Mni yuha Najin Win (Phyllis Young) also consulted with the people in Standing Rock regarding this action. With this in mind, the Delegation does not act for IRA Indians, "stay by the fort indians", or other Lakota people unwilling to be free. Looking further back, emerging from the Wounded Knee Occupation in 1973, the International Indian Treaty Council drew together more than 5000 delegates representing 98 Indian tribes and Nations from North and South America. This manifesto, representing the wisdom of thousands of people, their Ancestors, and the Great Mystery explicity supports the rights of Indigenous Nations to live free and to take whatever actions necessary for sovereignty.Download the complete Declaration of Continuing Independence.We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska , North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have withdrawn from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at http://www.lakotafreedom.com/.The following update is now available at the website of the Lakota Freedom Delegation:UPDATES: December 25, 2007- Cante Tenza Grandmothers consulted, message released by Canupa Gluha Mani regarding purpose of Treaty Withdrawal MORE...
- Delegation representatives held meetings for over three years leading to Monday's withdrawal MORE...
- Lakota to reveal land boundaries on eve of Wounded Knee anniversary. Check back for updates!
- Lakota delivers introductory Portfolio Packet to State Department and foreign embassies READ THE PACKET...
- The Lakota Freedom Delegation acknowledges the rumors of Russian Government support. In addition, Lakota has been in contact with other Nations who are considering Lakota sovereignty.
- Press Conference Photos...SEE THE GALLERY...
- Cante Tenza Grandmothers consulted, message released by Canupa Gluha Mani regarding purpose of Treaty Withdrawal MORE...
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- [AUDIO] Interview with Canupa Gluha Mani - Lakota Freedom Delegation
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I have been in contact with someone very close to all of this. Here are the words of Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.). The interview is a little over thirty minutes long but the file size is relatively small - less than 6MB. It is an MP3. Does anyone notice that Russel Means is doing precious little of the talking on all of this?
COLONIALISM AND INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE
NEO-COLONIALISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE AGENDA
Posted 26 December 2007 07:02 AM
I'd like to welcome readers from What Really Happened, Jeff Rense's website, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Digg, and Memes.org.
EENG has had some thirty thousand hits in the past two weeks with a majority of them coming in the past four days; visitors are tuning in from such huge traffic relayers as What Really Happened, Jeff Rense's website, Reddit, Stumbleupon, and Digg. To think that it all started with an item completely unrelated to the issue of Lakotah secession. I thought with all of the attention coming that I ought to provide readers with a little of what I do here at Enlightenment Engine. Don't forget to check out my other blog at Memes.org.
While I do not claim to represent First Nations peoples or the Lakotah, I believe that the Lakotah people's conspicuous silence over this issue can be interpreted as consent and until I discern better, I will pass on their messages. After all, each and every voice that has spoken of doubt on this issue has been either non-native or is simply unknown; in other words, indigenous leadership is not speaking against this with the exception of one voice from the Oglala Sioux that says that Means has not addressed the Oglala people officially. I think it bears noticing that he felt the need to use that word.
For my own, I have a great deal of appreciation not only for what the peoples of this land have endured from white people but for the culture and people themselves. If a sizeable contingent of native peoples want to live a traditional lifestyle then no one has a right to stand in their way and that includes any of the colonized peoples of this earth be they red, white, or what have you.
I hope you find the following links illucidating. They appear chronologically with the most recent posts at the top:
Kalahari Bushmen Appeal to President in Fight for their Home
BC: Ancient Trees Emerge from Ice
Intelligence Chief: Iran Ended Nuke Program in 2003
Wolf in the Rockies: Carnivore recovery or token effort?
Adaptive Camouflage: A Not-So-New Twist on Stealth Technologies
A Thinker's Guide to Conspiracy Theories
Do antivirus apps ignore US government spyware?
The Lowdown on Wildfires, Salvage Logging, & Thinning
A BRIEF HISTORY OF RELOCATION ON BLACK MESA
The Greatest Hacker Of All Time?
Dispelling the Cowboy Myth: an Interview with George Wuerthner
Shock & Awe's Goal: "Deep Psychological Injury"
Sacred Buffalo, Holy Cow: The Struggle for the Western Range
The 9/11 Information Mike Ruppert Doesn't Want You to Hear
Yahoo! on NSA Surveillance: No Comment
We Ought Not Grow Cows In Dry West
The Militarization of Neuroscience
Running on Emptiness: The Failure of Symbolic Thought
Yellowstone Buffalo Slaughter History
Cowboy Mentality Dominates Bison Slaughter
Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines
Monbiot: "If we want to save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels."
The O'Odham: Native-Americans With Ancestors From India?
On Global Warming: A Challenge to Skeptics
The Information War by Hakim Bey
Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?
Saddam's Hanging: Psyops as Usual
..and this just in:
[AUDIO] Interview with Canupa Gluha Mani - Lakota Freedom Delegation
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Secessions, Charlatans, and Statecraft
While I am tempted to issue some pronouncement on the validity or lack thereof regarding recent declarations of Lakotah sovereignty and secession, in all reality I must admit that there may be more rational and/or reasonable responses to the facts as we know them. Take, for example, the relative lack of any serious indigenous challenge to the Lakota Freedom Delegation; this could mean many things.
On the one hand, who among the Lakotah wouldn't want to live apart from Uncle Sam. Some, I am sure and it is likely that the strongest and most passionate voices for secession among the Lakotah people go relatively unheard as, with all communities, it is the richest amongst such that are actually online at all. America, as a community, is one of the rich sections of the global economy.
Still, should we dare to guess the motivations of people we have colonized? Are we not, as well, colonized ourselves, allowing for the snitch culture to have thrived to this point?
This is a human issue and to that I will always give respect but more importantly, this is a First Nations issue and I have done my part. I am not Lakotah. The ball is now in the tribes' hands and they just might take decades to make a play but, I assure you, things are underway. Watch out for a new kind of "red scare" complete with COINTELPRO tactics and media complicity.
Perhaps these are the proverbial pebbles that start an avalanche. Keep an historical perspective. It won't happen overnight and it won't be televised!
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Applying Some Critical Thinking to the Lakotah Secession Movement
It is important that we realize that in the modern world, the success and overall legitimacy of this movement will be evaluated later, perhaps decades from now. I think it is important that we all ask ourselves this question: just one month ago, wouldn't it have been considered a ludicrous statement to say that the average Lakota person isn't interested in sovereignty or real international recognition?
Before all this rhetoric came out and muddied the waters, that was a given. If millions of Americans are thinking of independence from the U.S. government (a dream of many) then I think it is a given that a less colonized people (Europeans, too, are colonized peoples, carrying out colonization - it's part of being colonized) and a proud people like the Lakota desire this as well.
I urge folks to read these things and all arguments on this issue very thoroughly. Do not miss a point. It is in the subtleties that the biggest lies will be told.
LAKOTA SECEDE FROM U.S. AND ALL TREATIES
Flawed Attempts to Debunk Secession Abound
Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans
Strongheart Warrior Society: Withdrawl from the treaty is protection
[AUDIO] Interview with Canupa Gluha Mani - Lakota Freedom Delegation
Secessions, Charlatans, and Statecraft
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Posted on January 6th, 2008
According to Lakota Oyate (For a Free & Independent Lakota Nation), on December 30, 2007, the Lakotah Freedom Delegation website and contact info were hijacked by one delegation member without consent of other delegates. Further, to quote Lakota Oyate, the "So-called 'Republic of Lakotah' and 'provisional government' is announced despite the fact 'republic' is not a Lakota word and Lakota already has a traditional form of government still in existence." Here is the new Lakota Oyate website, said to be supported by Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) of the Lakotah Freedom Delegation.
While it is Russel Means that is talking to foreign energy investors and it is the "Republic of Lakotah" that is doing things by the international book (international law and norms - thereby facilitating maximum international support) it is also Means that is the one being recognized, for better or worse, as essentially being the Lakotah Freedom Delegation by the very tribal governments that this delegation was to break from. Let me be clear: while I do not purport that Means is seeking this recognition as being the Lakotah Freedom Delegation, tribal councils (BIA puppets) treat this as if it is all Means' work. Meanwhile (no pun intended), other members of the Lakotah Freedom Delegation seem to be pointing the finger at Means for hijacking all of this. Intriguing...
While it is exciting that this is all heating up and that this story continues to unfold, the last thing that yours truly wanted to hear today was that there was such a schizm manifest in the original four delegates.
Secessions, Charlatans, and Statecraft
Applying Some Critical Thinking to the Lakotah Secession Movement
Tribal Gov'ts Announce They Don't Support the Lakota Freedom Delegation (NO KIDDING!)
Map of the Lakota Nation Revealed
Wikipedia's Entry on the Republic of Lakotah (some good information here) Here is a snip from that site:
The United States Department of State is referring queries on the subject of Lakotah to the United States Department of the Interior, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Gary Garrison of the BIA said that the group's withdrawal "doesn't mean anything". "These are not legitimate tribal governments elected by the people", he said, but cautioned that "when they begin the process of violating other people's rights, breaking the law, they're going to end up like all the other groups that have declared themselves independent - usually getting arrested and being put in jail".
Opinion on the Federal Government's expected reaction within the Republic of Lakota leadership is divided; Russell Means has stated that "I don't expect the federal government to do anything. I don't believe they even know what to do", but Canupa Gluha Mani has said that "we'll probably get killed for this".
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- Lakotah Freedom Delegation Speaks on Attempts to Divide Secession Movement
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Quoting Lakota Oyate (hyperlinks embedded in the text were added by yours truly and do not necessarily represent any sort of endorsement by the Lakota Freedom Delegation of respective content):
This is a time of transition for the Lakota oyate (people) as the realization of freedom is considered. It is unfortunate, but not unexpected that those involved with the Lakota Freedom movement have received slander, false personal attacks and threats from individuals both within and outside of Lakota. Regardless why these false attacks have occurred, we recognize these are the same tactics employed by the U.S. Government's COINTELPRO program to silence resistence to the genocide of First Nation's peoples.
These attacks mean nothing to us, and we continue with the work under the guidance of the Elders and childlren to make wowasakeikcupi truly possible.
We believe in the traditional systems that persist within Lakota and believe the will of the Elders and the young people will be heard. We seek to empower all of the Lakota oyate to share their ideas, hopes, feelings and concerns in a good way, and believe this website can become one part of that.
We ask individuals to cease with false personal attacks, slander and attempts to erode the advances of the Lakota Freedom movement. If concerns exist, we ask why individuals cannot have the integrity to address others directly with their questions instead of using COINTELPRO tactics to try and discredit people or a movement. Personal attacks create the appearance of COINTELPRO 'divide and conquer' activity whether it exists or not.
LAKOTA OYATE CONTACT INFORMATION
For General Information
Email us at: lakotafree@gmail.com
We suggest that all donations are held at this time until suitable systems can be put into place to receive them.
For Media Interviews and Scheduling
Email us at: lakotafree@gmail.com
Phone to (828) 230-1404
Media may sign-on to our media listserve at the following address: http://mail.lakotaoyate.net/mailman/listinfo/medialist_lakotaoyate.netSOURCE: Lakota Oyate
More here.
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- Indigenous Secessions in the News: The Mohawk Nation
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02.02.2008 18:34:30 SIX NATIONS "CONFEDERACY COUNCIL" BEING "MUNICIPALIZED" SIX NATIONS "CONFEDERACY COUNCIL" BEING "MUNICIPALIZED"
- TIME TO DECLARE CONTINUING INDEPENDENCE
MNN. Feb. 2, 2008. There are some very confused minds at Six Nations. The latest update from Hazel Hill lays out the complete violation of the Great Law. A whole slew of interest groups have sprung up purporting to have a say in nation business. For one, the traitorous band council can never have a voice. Neither can these kitchen table, arena groups and social clubs. Anyone outside the clans, the Two Row and Great Law has no voice.
After we physically reclaimed our land in 2006, talks began about reclaiming the rest of it. The negotiators called "sell-outs" and the "Confederacy Chiefs" have fallen into the colonial trap of meeting behind closed doors and working out a "self-government" deal under Canada, without the knowledge or consent of the people. In other words, they're selling out despite 200 years of resistance by our ancestors.
The sell-outs are letting colonial law override the Great Law. This is turning into a "joint venture" business deal. The actions of the sell-outs is collusion, fraud and betrayal. We cannot negotiate with anyone that doesn't own anything. We own everything. The intruders are making offers to these sell-outs. Then they take it to the people for sanctioning.
They are working towards "municipalizing" the "Confederacy". They are falling right into the colonial "divide and rule" trap. We've told the sell-outs over and over again that we will not give up anything. The colonists present the terms and tell the sell-outs, "Take it or leave it! Get it past the people and then get back to us". And, "If you succeed, it'll be worth your while". Nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
The sell-outs deliberately restrict themselves to the "community" of Six Nations so that a municipality can be set up by Canada. The update constantly refers to the "Crown! Crown!Crown!" "Nothing but servants of the Crown, my liege!" Today this means the sell-outs are serving the "gangsters" who have taken over.
Everyone knows the Mohawks will never give up anything. The Halidmand Tract is part of the greater Haudenosaunee territory. The sell-outs and the limited "community" they are appealing to live on our territory. They have no authority to make any deal on our behalf.
All Mohawks must be brought in from all our communities and those scattered throughout Onowaregeh, as the Great Law provides. We are a nation, not a community. The Haldimand Tract is Mohawk land. The other nations who live on our tract may be finding it easy to give away our rights as it's not theirs. The British have always gone to other nations like the Mississauga to trade and barter Haudenosaunee land.
The sell-outs have been in there too long, had too many dinners and late nights with the colonists. This leaves them open to fraud, softening up and seeing too much of the colonial side.
A colonial white lawyer, Aaron Detlor, is running the "Confederacy" show!
He set up the Haudenosaunee Development Institute HDI without the Mohawks to bypass the people and our decision making process through the clans and all the other Haudenosaunee communities. No business can be conducted without us.
HDI mimics the colonial system and puts an HDI stamp on it. HDI plans to use our land as collateral to go to the colonial banks, developers and investors. We don't use land as collateral for anybody or anything ever! We don't issue permits to foreigners.
We never gave up our sovereignty, our land and our independence. The only right the "Crown" has is to come to us with their hat in their hand to ask us to exist here. Nothing below or above the ground can ever be sold. It turns out all the so-called "leases" are frauds. It is up to the Canadian government to prove to us they are not, which they can't. This ain't do-able! We will do what the Lakota Nation just did, terminate all leases and agreements and continue our independent sovereignty and the reclamation of all our lands and resources. This would respect international law, Haudenosaunee rights and Canadian law.
Just because the intruders have big guns, are ruthless, vicious and can control our people, our land and our resources by threats, force and deceit doesn't make their shenanigans any less criminal. Might is not right.
Where are the sell-outs and colonists meeting? In some conference room somewhere? Shouldn't it be in public just like the Great Law states where we can keep an eye on everybody and so we are all well informed? This is not such a radical idea. Even the colonists have their Parliament which they mostly use as a rubber stamp. Are the colonists scared? Nothing is going to happen to them if they meet with us in public and are truthful, forthright and law abiding. They have to respect the fact that we are the true possessors of this continent.
Why is Alan McNaughton calling himself a chief of the Mohawks? According to the Great Law, the chief has to be condoled and take the name of one of the original 50 chiefs. Alan represents Alan, something like Joseph Brant did. He was a British subject and mason who sat as a ceremonial "Pine Tree Chief" with no power. His only purpose was to translate for the Confederacy. Yet the British got him to sign all kinds of fraudulent documents. Joseph Brant and Alan McNaughton can't sign s—t! If one chief is missing out of the circle, the meetings cannot be conducted. It goes to the clans and the war chiefs. Only a warrior designated by the clans can sign on our behalf. This has to be done in front of all the people.
We have to question these guys who call themselves chiefs like "Chief Pete Sky", "Chief Alan McNaughton", "Chief Leroy Hill" and "Chief Summerfall Winterspring". These chiefs are advocates of a foreign ideology known as the Handsome Lake Christian based code. The Great Law does not allow us to serve somebody like a bunch of dummies.
We finally figured out what's wrong with the people at Six. They seem to be suffering from "Brantosis" – a newly diagnosed psychological disorder. It is believed to be caused by the "bread and cheese" they eat every May 24th on the Queen's birthday. Sometimes it is affected by a peculiar fungus that acts on some people to induce the delusion that they have become Joseph Brant.
It's sort of like the ergot on bread that LSD comes from. The cheese also makes them constipated and full of s--t. This makes them think they are higher than the people. In a sense it's true because they're so stoned and Oh! Phew!
The trouble is they're being used and they develop a compulsion to sign everything away to anyone waving a foreign flag, just like Joey Brant did. If anyone knows of a good antidote, please send it quick to the sell-outs, and chiefs Peter, Alan, Leroy and Summerfall.
The other antidote is for them to read Seth Newhouse's version of the Great Law. There is only one Confederacy Grand Council fire in Onondaga in so-called New York State . We still have 9 Mohawk Chiefs, 9 clan mothers and three clans. The Grand Council is not at the Onondaga longhouse in Grand River . The Mohawk council pulled out of the Grand Council in the 1700s thereby rendering all treaty making void. Without the Mohawks no Grand Council can be conducted. Every international alliance or trade agreement [Treaty of Canadaigua, Oneida 's land grant to the Thirteen Colonies before 1776, etc. ] made since then is fraudulent. We are the Elder Brother and we have to be there. It's time for the Confederacy Chiefs and clan mothers at Grandeur River to lose their delusions of grandeur and to stop this on-going charade.
When Hazel says, the "creator, creator, creator", we are being put down as subservient. No one can tell us or give us permission to do what is right. This "creator" stuff is Christian gobbledegook. It's meant to establish a hierarchical system with someone sitting on top of everybody's head. This unknown made-up wizard that represents the European oligarchy can give and take away. It's a trap to misinterpret our relationship to the natural world and to each other. The "kasastenera kowa sa oiera", the great natural power, describes us as being part of the natural world, not above or beneath anything.
It's all part of the sales pitch to lie to us and make us think that we can sell our land and resources, which we can't.
Whether they realize it or not, these sell-outs are working to bring us marching back into the 19th Century to complete the colonial vision. They could never bring our ancestors into submission.
The whole effort at smoke and mirrors is to help the colonists extract our assets from us. They want us to forget about the coming generations in our society and theirs. It's a short term deal or "fix" for the benefit of a few colonists and their controlled puppets.
These sell-outs must be replaced immediately by the real representatives who will conduct talks under the guidance of the Great Law. We are being lied to.
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
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