A sovereign Nation was re-established at Bear Butte on July 14, 1991

From June 12 to June 29 the traditional government of the Lakota Nation will be officially reconvening on its northern Hunkpapa territories. Hosted by the Hunkpapa Oyate of Running Antelope, Rain-the-Face, and Sitting Bull, and all the traditional tyospayes and tokojas, the meetings will be held at the Standing Rock College auditorium in Fort Yates, North Dakota.

June 12th and 13th will be open to the public to formulate the agenda for the Tribunal and Testimonies, to be held June 23-29 in the same location. Primary topics will be the Black Hills Land Claim, Water/mineral rights, Religious Freedom, and the violations of the human rights of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Oyates.

The June 23-29 tribunal will be attended by official representatives of the United States and Canadian governments, as well as the Vatican Administration from Italy. International organizations will also be sending official delegations for the Tribunal. These include the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), the United Nations, the OAS, AIM, and the Bear Butte Council, and the League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations (LISN).

Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) Tribal Councils will also be allowed to contribute to the discussions for the renewal of the Lakota Nation, in the name of the traditional unanimity of the Ikce Wicasa Ta Ominiciye.

Treaty and non-Treaty Itanscans will be part of the effort for a peaceful Yuwitaya Lakota, following the preamble of the Sioux Valley Indian Band Accord:

“We, the duly elected leaders of the sovereign independent Indian Nations, being aware of our close kinship and recognizing the benefits to be derived from uniting in common cause, do hereby affirm and establish a Unification Accord for Peace, Alliance, and Sovereignty. Further, to exercise our fundamental and inalienable right to determine our own destiny and to govern our own affairs. Further, to follow our original instructions to strengthen our Oyate, to cooperate with one another, to live one earth in harmony and peace with all peoples and creatures.”

Traditional Akicita security societies will be providing protection and service to diplomats and delegates and Itanscan, in the time-honored right of all Peoples and Nations to provide for their Defense.

International Bands and Tribes who are members of this Alliance include those across the illegal Canadian-American MEDICINE LINE: Dakota Plains, Sioux Valley, Standing Buffalo, Wahpeton, Pheasants Rump, Dakota Tipi, Birdtail, White Cap, Pauls Nakota, Alexis Nakota, Stoney Nakota, Wood Mountain, and Oak Lake Dakota.

Tribes and Bands currently confined within the illegal United States boundaries include: Sisseton Wahpeton, Yankton, Oglala, Devil’s Lake, Lower Sioux Community (Minnesota), Hunkpapa, Minneconjou, Itazipo, Oohenupa, Brule, Sicangu, Sihasapa, Santee, Turtle Mountn, Can Onasabye-Bde Tatankan Ospaye, and Shakapee.

Other Bands And Tribes In Kinship And Relationship Include:

Bear Paw/Ciniki Nakota, Ft. Belknap And Ft. Peck Assiniboine Nakota, Good Stoney, Crizzly Bears’ Head-Mosquito Band, Carry The Kettles, Ocean Man, Flandreau, Prairie Island Sioux.

In Addition To These Ancient Siouan-Speakers, The Confederacy Of The Mato Paha Okolokiciye (Bear Butte Council), In Alliance With Lakota, Includes The Algonuian-Speakers And Iroquois-Speakers Of The Black Hills Bioregion, Outlined By Non-Native Mapmakers As The Louisiana Purchase Lands Of 1803. These Territories Stretch Across What Was Called ‘Indian Territory’ In The 19th Century, From The Mississippi River To Northern Alberta And British Columbia.

In Alliance With The Iroquois And Okanagan/Shuswap Confederacies, The Lakota Nation And The Confederacy Of The Black Hills, With Headquarters On The Sacred Mountain Of Nowah’wus (Bear Butte), Have Entered Into Formal Governmental Agreements For Mutual Defense And Economic Development. They Are All Members Of The League Of Indigenous Sovereign Nations, Which Follows The Iroquois Great Law Of Peace, Of The Huron Prophet Deganawidah.

In January, 1995,

The Traditional Government Of The Lakota Nation Was Officially Sworn In As A Full Member Nation In UNPO, In The Hague, Netherlands. Other Members And Supporting Members Of The UNPO Include: Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Chechnya, Kalahui Hawaii, Kurdistan, Taiwan, And Many Other Peoples And Nations Who Have Never Been Recognized By The United Nations. There Are Only 184 U.N. Members, Out Of 5,000 Nations Worldwide.

The Traditional Lakota Government Does Not Recognize The Effectiveness Of The U.N.’S Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Status For Lakota, Nor Its Legality.

Officially Re-Established In A Unanimous Summit Of Treat And Non-Treaty Lakota Elders And Council At Bear Butte On July 14, 1991, A “Provisional Elders Council’ Has Been Functioning As The Government, Until All Tiyospayes And Itanscan Had Been Consulted And Included In The Renewal Process.

Policies Include Full Equality For Women In All Decision-Making Powers; Economic Development Through Clean High Technology, Such As A Telecommunications Studio In The Black Hills, To Make Movies And Form And Native TV Cable Channel, And Radio, Publishing. This Will Be Complemented By A 25-Year Plan For A Buffalo Commons. Warrior Societies Will Be Trained To Serve The People As Protectors. Alcohol Will Be Declared Illegal, With All Liquor Distributors And Bootleggers Severely Punished And Blockaded From Sacred Lands.

An International Convention

On The Prevention And Punishment Of The Crime Of Genocide, As Perpetrated By The Governments Of The United States And Canada, Is The Central Purpose Of The June Tribunal On Standing Rock. The Administrations Of Prime Minister Chretien And President Clinton Have Been Served Notice Of Their Crimes Against Humanity; And No Amount Of Public Relations Posturing As ‘Democracies’ Can Excuse The Ongoing Deaths Of Millions Of Indigenous Peoples, And All Poor Peoples Of This Continent Regardless Of Race Or Creed, In The Name Of NAFTA, ‘Free Market Reform.’

The Bear Butte Council Also Recognizes The Reality And The Necessity Of Getting Along With Its Many Non-Native Relatives In The Bioregions. They Know There Are Many Sympathizers Among The Poorer Peoples Of The West Who Are Also Being Deprived Of Their Rights/Freedoms By The Oppressive Central Governments In Washington And Ottawa.

Reconvening Of The Lakota Nations Traditional Government: June 12-29, 1995, Standing Rock College Auditorium, Fort Yates, North Dakota.

Letter from Elders: July 14, 1991

Hau Mitakuye Oisin,

Greetings to all our Allies, Brothers & Sisters! We are sending this letter out in a new way, by computer, to show that we are still alive and our hearts are not diminished in any way.

This is a general introduction of ourselves, and expression of warm regard to all our Indigenous Allies engaged in ongoing War with the USA and Canada, all around the Sacred Earth. The Bear Butte Council has long been silent because our Prophecies said we had to wait, until now. But as our elder Joe Flying By has said, “It is time.”

The Bear Butte Council (Mato Paha Okolokiciye) is an ancient counsel of the many Allies of the holy Black Hills (H’e Sapa) bioregion, in what has been illegally occupied and desecrated by the ‘United States of America’ and ‘Canada’. We are what these euro-judeo-christians call ‘Red Indians’. We call ourselves Tsistsistas and Suhtaoi (Southern and Northern Cheyennes), A’anninin (Gros Ventres), Nakoda Ki (Assiniboines and Stoneys), Lakota Ki (Titonwin Sioux), as well as Mdewakanton, Hidatsa, Crow, Mandan, Arapaho, Shoshone, Kiowa, Ponca, Oto, Omaha, Cree, Ojibwa, Blackfoot, and Arikara.

We know there is a need for INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE with our many other Indigenous brothers and sisters throughout the world who are being slaughtered by these Evil Invaders. They have massacred at least 100 million Native Peoples in this hemisphere since Columbus brought his diseases and priests in 1492. They deliberately slaughtered 75 million of our sacred Buffalo in this northern continent. Countless massacres of our little children were perpetrated by their glorious Cavalry; and they are still glorifying their genocide in racist/religionist Hollywood movies…

Our allied Red Nations utilized the Black Hills, Bear Butte, Grey Buffalo Horn, and other Sacred Sites for millions of years for spiritual and sacred purposes, with such unlimited and undisturbed use and access unconditionally agreed upon by the government of the United States through the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

With the threat of the encroaching Whites, the nine Red Nations of the Sacred Black Hills Region were prompted to PROTECT, SECURE, AND INSURE OUR TERRITORIAL HOMELANDS THROUGH THE SIGNING OF THE 1851 TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE.

The Agreements and Guarantees set forth and mandated by the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie are INDISPUTABLE, NONCONTROVERSIAL, AND DO NOT ALLOW FOR “RE-NEGOTIATION”.

Our sincere feelings and beliefs with regard to the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie – which is also known as “The Treaty of Long Meadows” and, to the Cheyenne “The Great Horse Creek Treaty”, are that:

Our sincere feelings and beliefs with regard to the 1851

Treaty of Fort Laramie – which is also known as “The Treaty of Long Meadows” and, to the Cheyenne “The Great Horse Creek Treaty”, are that:

1. IT IS A SACRED DOCUMENT,

Unanimously agreed upon by each camp and each Band of each of the nine Red Nations Signatory to the September 17 signing, with the presence of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Nakota/Dakoda/Lakota, the Four Sacred Arrows of the Cheyenne, as well as the Sacred Bundles of the other five Indigenous Red Nations Signatory to the 1851 Treaty;

2. IT IS A UNIFYING DOCUMENT,

With nine Red Nations Allied to protect their territorial homelands, the center and very heart of those territories being the Sacred Black Hills Region;

3. IT BINDS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO HONOR the 1851Treaty of Fort Laramie,

As mandated through Article VI of their U.S. Constitution, which states explicitly that “Treaties made with Indian Nations are the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND”, which not even U.S. Supreme Court ‘Rulings’ (adverse or otherwise) can legally affect;

4. All so-called ‘Acts,

Treaties, and/or Agreements” concocted after September 17, 1851 are continued day-to-day VIOLATIONS of the sole legitimate 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, and are TOTALLY ILLEGAL;

5. Each of the nine Red Nations

present at and signatory to the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie were properly represented with their PRINCIPAL CHIEFS AND HEADMEN, with the parents of the great Medicine Man, TATANKA IYOTAKE (SITTING BULL), and the great War Chief TASUNKE WITKO (CRAZY HORSE), present and witness to the signing;

6. IT GUARANTEES THE NATURAL,

HUMAN, AND LEGAL RIGHTS OF THE NINE RED NATIONS TO THEIR TERRITORIAL HOMELANDS AS DEFINED IN THE 1851 TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE AND RELINQUISHES NOTHING.

1851 Treaty Violations By The U.S. Government CONSTITUTE GENOCIDE

Upon And Against The Nine 1851 Treaty Signatory Red Nations. In 1988 U.S. President Bush Signed Into Public Law ‘The Genocide Convention Implementation Act (Proxmire Act) Of 1987 (U.S.P.L. 100-606)” Which Adopted The “International Genocide Convention”, And Which Prohibits The Commission(S) Of The Crime Of Genocide Against The Nine Red Signatory Nations.

On December 6, 1989 I Presented This Statement Of Our Sovereignty Before The US Civil Rights Commission Hearings In Rapid City, South Dakota, And Demanded That They Review The Genocide Committed By The US Government Against Our Red Nations.

Submitted, Respectfully,
Richard Grass
Descendent Chief
[signatures to same, July 14, 1991
Bear Butte

John W. Long
Arvol Looking Horse
Richard Grass
Joseph A. Walker
Pete Fills The Pipe Sr.
Rodney Lee Randall
Robert Grey Eagle

Tony Black Feather
Merle Whistler
Dave Yakima Chief
Garfield Grassrope
Irvin Red Fox
David Seals
Elva Stand in Timber
Lee Lonebear
Alfred Strange Owl

Archie Fire
Bill Tall Bull
Rema White Cheek
Reginald Bird Horse
Huron Red Dog
Heidi Lee Randall
Gilly Running
Cecelia Parker

Philip Sounding Sides
Two Crows
Bernard Peoples
YasuLuta Red Hail
Mark Soldier Chief
Ken Wallowing Bull
Adeline Whitewolf
Joe Bear

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A sovereign Nation was re-established at Bear Butte on July 14, 1991

Letter from Elders: July 14, 1991

Our sincere feelings and beliefs with regard to the 1851

Treaty of Fort Laramie – which is also known as “The Treaty of Long Meadows” and, to the Cheyenne “The Great Horse Creek Treaty”, are that:

1851 Treaty Violations By The U.S. Government CONSTITUTE GENOCIDE

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