Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), leader of the Lakota Sioux in the late 1800s, resisted the takeover of Sioux lands and played a major role in the defeat of General Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. "If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place," Sitting Bull said. "He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows." Buried among media accounts of the presidential race, football playoffs, Christmas shopping, and Britney Spears was news of the declaration by Lakota Sioux leaders on December 17 that their tribe had seceded from the United States. THIS article gives the basics, and HERE is the website of the new republic. The comments HERE are a lively discussion of the issue. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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