The new country would issue its own passports and driving licenses,
and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their
US citizenship.
The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull
and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States,
leaders said Wednesday. Lakota country includes parts of the states of
Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
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"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America
and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our
country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell
Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian
embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington
for a news conference.
A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.
They also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and
Venezuelan embassies, and will continue on their diplomatic mission and
take it overseas in the coming weeks and months, they told the news
conference.
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