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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thank's Lynda.  As far as the stories go, Crazy Horse is the kind of Indian I 
think I would have most closely tried to emaulate had I been an Indian in his 
time (unless there is butchery of children of which I am not aware).

I don't know which part of the Lakota Tribe is getting all of the good 
Libertarian press.  I 'll have to read more

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--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Lakota Tribe
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 2:58 PM
> Weelllllll, that's an interesting question.  They are
> relatively big. They're real feisty, shall we say. 
> <g>  You may have heard of them as the Sioux or you
> may have heard of Pine Ridge and the big shoot out.  Or
> Sitting Bull?  Crazy Horse?  Black Elk?  (I have a first
> edition of that book) Leonard Peltier?
> 
> Saying Lakota takes in a whole bunch of folks.  The Lakota.
>  The Dakota. The Nakhota.  The Plains Indians.  The Oglala
> Lakota.  The Oglala Sioux. The Cheyenne River Sioux.  The
> Rosebud Sioux.  The Sisseton Wakpeton Sioux. The Standing
> Rock Sioux.  The Sioux Nation.
> 
> Now, in more recent history, they decided to grow hemp. 
> The feds came in and raided the rez.
> 
> You might be interested to know that they decided to
> withdraw from the U.S. a year or two ago and form their own
> country (parts of Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and the
> Dakotas).  AND, it is technically legal because the U.S.
> hasn't honored the 30 or so treaties they have with the
> Lakotas.
> 
> And, for those living in up there in the Dakotas, little
> point of history, they never ceded ownership of the Black
> Hills <g>  Somewhere along the line the white folks in
> DC didn't catch that omission <<bg>>
> 
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "bob ford"
> <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> > Lynda, I don't know if you followed the other
> thread where the Lakotas were mentioned, concerning their
> libertarian leanings and willingness to work with
> 'white' libertarians.  What do you know about them? 
> What is their reputation?  How big are they?  If you please,
>   bobford
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