See Sioux and the Banshee!

[lordandrei]

Yesterday the Sioux nation dropped a bomb on the United States that more than decimated a 5 state area in the northern central plains. It pretty much destroyed Nebraska, took away the famed Devil's Tower (from Close Encounters) and almost affected Iowa.

Horrors!

Oh, wait.. Maybe I'm overreacting.

Let's look at what really happened.

A group of

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[khepriamon]

I think you've called it. Sadly, the Lakota (that's how the Lakota Language Department at the University of Nebraska spells it) nation doesn't seem willing to unite to stand up for itself. Once a month a group of people from Lincoln, mostly Nebraskans for Peace, go to Whiteclay (a Nebraska town just across the state line from the Rosebud Reservation, which sells more alcohol than Lincoln) to protest the sale of alcohol to the Lakota. The Lakota who join in are always the same dozen or so. The Lakota, in brief, seem as able to join together for their own self-interest as the Democrats.

Along the same lines, I wonder what would happen if the Mexican government announced that it was repudiating the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and was taking back Texas, most of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and about 2/3 of California. The treaty was negotiated by a US representative who had been recalled by President Polk, and therefore did not have authority to negotiate it. Moreover, there is some question as to the legitimacy of the Mexican government which ratified it. Would the US laugh it away? Would we go to war to "put them damned Mesikans in their place?"

Alas, it isn't likely to happen. Neither will anything come of Russell Means' declaration.

Sad.