Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council: Never Surrender

Summary and Update
Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council Meeting of the Great Sioux Nation held on January 28, 29, 30, 2011, Pine Ridge Territory of the Lakota Oyate
Photo Chief Oliver Red Cloud
From Kent Lebsock
The Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council (“BHSNTC”) is the traditional governing body of the Lakota Oyate (Lakota Nation) and has always been responsible for preserving the ancient ways of Lakota governance, culture and spirituality. The protocols surrounding governance of the Lakota Oyate have never been surrendered or sacrificed since our peoples first had contact despite the ongoing attempts to do so by the colonizers and invaders from the United States of America. Unlike other Indigenous nations of North America, our only foreign conflict in modern history has been the government, military, people and corporations of the U.S.A.
Sovereignty is an inherent right of the land and territories of the Lakota Oyate and we are responsible to future generations for the Nation of our ancestors. In acknowledging this truth, internationally recognized treaties were signed by our grandfathers in 1851 and 1868 with the invented nation of “Americans” whose ancestry heralds from other places. Despite the often bloody and always deceitful attempts by the invented nation to hide the truth of its past and to twist and distort both international and domestic laws to serve its needs for ever-more lands and resources, the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council has never surrendered its responsibility to our land and its many inhabitants.
The responsibilities have not changed and continue uninterrupted.
FOR THE REST OF THE STATEMENT AND THE RESOLUTIONS PLEASE REFER TO THE DOCUMENTS.
Keeper of the Sacred Pipe
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49218618
Lakota Language Education Resolution
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49218695
Release of Leonard Peliter
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49218751
Owe Aku Water Resolution
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49218882
Protection of Sacred Ceremonies
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49219363
Sacred Eagle Resolution
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49219460
Press statement Black Hills Sioux Treaty Council 2011
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49219126
Ride Resolution
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49319636
Rejection of the US statement on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49319799
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Kent Lebsock, Coordinator
Owe Aku International Justice Project
for Lakota Treaty Justice & Advocacy
oweakuinternational@me.com
646-233-4406 on the web at http://www.oweakuinternational.org/