File:121707withdrawal.pdf

This is a document detailing the very recently declared "Lakota Unilateral Withdrawal from All Agreements and Treaties with the United States of America." The Lakota are pushing for their sovereignty in new ways, and in ways that will no doubt bring even more U.S. governmental repression on their communities. The histories we are taught as white people treat the issues of Native American sovereignty as dead and over, but the truth of the matter is that Native American communities still face extreme poverty, environmental racism, oppression, state violence and state neglect, and Native American communities are still organizing around these issues and struggling for their survival. Another way in which the legacies of colonialism are not simply a thing of the past.