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The ride began on December 15th in Standing Rock, the anniversary of Sitting Bull's death, and has traveled through fierce snowstorm and cold, the same conditions faced by the 357 mostly women, children and elder men at Wounded Knee Creek 127 years ago.

"The purpose is to ride the spirit trail of Chief Big Foot," said Tegihya Kte also known as Garry Rowland, leader of the riders and recent delegate of the Lakotah Freedom effort in Washington D.C.. "The Tree of Life died in Wounded Knee in 1890, and the ride was begun to mend the Sacred Hoop."

Riders ranging in age from 10 to 65 travel the footsteps of their Ancestors, along the way offering prayer for the women, children, the Elders, and the conditions the Lakotah people are forced to live under today. For the children, the ride is also a powerful introduction to the sacred relationship between the Lakotah and the horse and the courage their Ancestors took during their 13 day walk from the site of Sitting Bull's assassination to Wounded Knee.

"My sons and now my grandsons have participated in the ride,"shared Tegihya Kte. "They ride for our future and the self-determination of our people. "

The self-determination of the Lakotah now takes on powerful meeting as the Lakotah
Freedom Delegation traveled to Washington D.C. and withdrew the Lakotah from their treaties with the United States Government. The ride becomes an outward expression of sovereign Lakotah rights and spirituality.

Tegihya Kte said, "We don't want the government telling us what to do, we want to be free."

Lakotah Freedom delegate and Cante Tenza leader Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) agreed, "The Lakotah withdrawal in Washington D.C. brings real protection for our people today, exactly the real protection Big Foot sought for his people then."

We are the freedom loving Lakotah from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have withdrawn from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural,International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at http://www.rebublicoflakotah.com.

Aho! We've had more than half a million hits on our website in one week! Thanks for your interest and support!

Pilameya! Many thanks to all people who are sharing their support and solidarity with us. People from more than 100 different nations have visited our website. The whole world is watching!

LoveChrist wrote:My husband and I have been doing a lot of research about the Missouri area, and where the tribes that were here have gone. Well, it looks like almost all of them are in Oklahoma. They have already set up their nations there.

So, I asked about this situation and what they thought about their land in Missouri. I got a very interesting answer.

Some "other" tribe will come here. They said that it was told by the elders long ago that a new tribe would form, that it would gather in the Missouri area. They said that they would be from every nation. I said, are you referring to the rainbow warriors? They didn't seem to know what I was talking about. LOL. So anyway, this area is for them.

DrJones wrote:Darren: Very ambitious... can you outline the steps you propose (if you wish to disclose publicly)? Also, how much funding needed to buy land for the purpose you propose?

LC and Darren: my wife recently approved an amount from our modest savings to buy land/housing in Mo or nearby Nebraska... (she's not fond of Kansas...) Let me be specific, since we're brainstorming a bit here: perhaps $40K, if that will help. And I have a friend in Ut also "interested." Let's see how this goes...

Also -- LC, have not forgotten your request for DVD's... holidays and travel you know... will send soon.

Pls keep me/us informed about land/housing auctions in Mo... Actually we're most interested right now in NW Mo and SE Nebraska... Is there a link for such a thing, auctions of land/houses in the area? (Or related, inexpensive... We're used to fixer-uppers by now...)

Also, would be willing to consider "going in on" a purchase in the Mo/Ne area if there is an interest, some sort of arrangement with the types of people who frequent (via posts) this forum! Again, brainstorming... for fun, but also looking at options for a "landing spot" or refuge in that area.

Darren wrote:I have always been told by my family from when I was young that I was part Native American. My genealogy documents an ancestor of mine that is a full blooded Cherokee. I am mostly Norwegian, Irish and British but there was always this connection to Native America that I was left to ponder about.

A couple of years ago I went down to GeneTree.com on 17th South, West Temple in Salt Lake City and submitted for a genetic test. The results came back that I was 86% North European and the balance being mostly Native American. Now I had another proof of my Native American Ancestry.

I served a mission to Ireland and worked in areas specifically mentioned in my genealogy. I had plenty of exposure to that part of my British and Irish heritage from my missionary experience.

I became good friends with a Norwegian Man who gave me significant exposure to that part of my heritage. Of which I am most grateful.

About 3 years ago I began working with a woman who is a Chieftainess of an Alutiiq Tribe, she is chief of the Kitoi tribe of Koniag, Alaska. This was my first exposure to Native American heritage.

My new friend from Alaska spends most of her time traveling the world and representing her people in trading of the fishing industry her people are famous for and other natural resources under her control.

As I began to work with her I was amazed at what she told me. The Alaska Native Americans were never conquered like their southern cousins in the lower 48 U.S. were. The Alaskan Natives still own all the natural resources of Alaska. As the Alaska purchase by the U.S. never transferred these rights away from them.

My Alutiiq friend carries an Identification Card from her tribe that is accepted world wide. When foreign dignitaries fly into Alaska to visit her “Nation” they do not have to be stopped at any U.S. Customs, as they are a Suzerain Nation. When I began working with her I received an honorary membership in her tribe.

I started working with her with the idea that I and a friend of mine were going to purchase a school campus in Portland Oregon, do a land swap that swaps Indian land rights in Alaska with private land under political control in the U.S. This deal was well under way. But my main investor friend pulled out, ink allergy. I had to sell my home in Utah to cover my debts and moved, I continued on my journey in life by moving to Missouri.

I also learned from my Alutiiq friend that because I can prove that I have ANY Native American in me, that I can claim that heritage, even though I am not registered with any specific tribe. She said that you can always go down to the BIA office and register as a Lost Tribe.

Now here is where it gets interesting for you all, of any Native American decent, of even the smallest amounts. You have the right to do the same as she and I have been doing.

My Alutiiq friend has helped others to do this land rights swap all over this country. It is perfectly legal and is currently holding ground in a court case where this land swap was done on Long Island in New York, creating a native American land holding on Long Island, where she swapped the land rights from Alaska with land in the heart of Long Island. What she has effectively done is set up a Autonomous Native American Nation in the heart of the Financial Capital of the World.

http://web.archive.org/web/200411051748 ... /news3.htm

When my business deal to build a Suzerain Native American business in Portland, Oregon went cold as my business partner and I we were not able to purchase the land. (We had a business plan to have a major campus for NG Schools based in Provo, Utah. Where we would be free to bring in ESL students from all over the world and not have to worry about I-20 qualifications that the Office of Home Land Security was denying our students entrance through the U.S.A. in rout to our Suzerain Land. And the added benefit of not having to pay US taxes on our Suzerain land or for our Suzerain business.

After moving on from that failed attempt. My family moved from Utah to Missouri and I have had a hope of again setting up a school here in Missouri perhaps under the autonomy of Native American Suzerainity. But alas I want for other like minded people as it is a dream that has evaded my grasp. You wouldn’t happen to know anyone who isn’t allergic to ink when given a check? I am still connected with some billionaire investors but they seem to be allergic to ink when it comes to signing checks.

But I hope this gets the wheels spinning in your heads of the possibilities in eventually using your Native American blood line to help build up Zion.

God Bless,
Darren

Also, how much funding needed to buy land for the purpose you propose?

LC and Darren: my wife recently approved an amount from our modest savings to buy land/housing in Mo or nearby Nebraska... (she's not fond of Kansas...) Let me be specific, since we're brainstorming a bit here: perhaps $40K, if that will help. And I have a friend in Ut also "interested." Let's see how this goes...