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Sioux for sovereignty, a model for the Métis fight for their dignity ...


For those who dream of liberty and who have undertaken to recover the dignity of indigenous peoples free, everyone should read: "The Sioux, thirty-five years of struggle for sovereignty" . This excellent column is Sylvie Brieu, and has just been published in National Geographic French version, July 2008, pages 54-69. Around the world where empires are mounted on the back and the genocide of indigenous peoples who have occupied originally (and that includes all peoples mixed offspring of these meetings), a wind of revolt, recognition and responsibility blows minds who have recovered to vibrate and hope.

In his paper, speaks of four Brieu Lakota Sioux of Pine Ridge Reservation, who solemnly declared the founding of the Republic of Lakota. Very few go to the cup and the lips will say more? Not really! Since members of the delegation were heard by the UN and have renounced their U.S. citizenship, which in this country is an impossibility under the federal doctrine saying that all Indian nations are part of the United States .

affirm that we are free and then declare independence all the forbidden, is already being free and independent in itself, since it refused to legitimize those who despise us and kill us by their laws. The gesture is great and all that is more honorable! It has symbolic value, the base of the right of the people running.

If these warriors of a new age successfully, peacefully and without violence, to make their voices heard in the largest offices in Washington, nothing prevents that happening here in Canada, while the Métis are recognized as Aboriginal in full in section 35 of the Constitution which is one of ten founding texts of our people (the first dating in 1652, and the last Powley, 2003). You understand now why the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia have refused to sign the famous UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by 2007.Ils fear secession and do everything they can to break our necks.

For now, nothing is gained for the secessionists Sioux led by Russell Means. But the approach is to think through the legal fight that began Métis CMDRSM deliver for their official recognition, the portico of our dignity and our fulfillment. To answer contempt which it is subjected by the U.S. government willingly Means recalls the phrase full of meaning one day launched by Mahatma Gandhi First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. "

Do not forget that. She says exactly where we are: we were ignored, they laughed at us, and now they are fighting us in their courts, with every weapon at their disposal. The victory is the end. We are a single people, and that no law can take it away as we firmly believe and we fight for get there ...

Russel Bouchard
Link Memory of CMDRSM

Photo Caption: Russell Means, leader of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Lakota, proclaimed at the end of 2007.