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Complete and total Sovereignty of all Indigenous People ~ Indians ~ Native Americans.

To: The US Government and the UN for recognition of sovereignty of all Indigenous people.

The Indigenous Preservation will support indigenous people to ensure their rights and freedom through education, social service, and economic initiatives so their cultures and languages will both endure and prosper.

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Recent NY Times and The Wall Street Journal Statistics of The Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, USA.
* 97% of of the population at Pine Ridge Reservation live below federal poverty line.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* Death due to Heart Disease: Twice the national average.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.
* At least 60% of the homes are severely substandard, without water, electricity, adequate insulation, and sewage systems.
* Recent reports state the average life expectancy is 45 years old while others state that it is 48 years old for men and 52 years old for women. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for any community in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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there will be no peace on earth till what is wrong is made right, alot has been said but little is getting done my lakota brother and sisters and children need are help! cloth's food, bath room stuff ect, the lakota children need every thing you take for granted but there will be a day real soon if it don't stop creator will be stepping in to end all the white mans destrucktion too are way of life! to long to much gone enought is enough how can you go to sleep at nigh nowing you can do...

there will be no peace on earth till what is wrong is made right, alot has been said but little is getting done my lakota brother and sisters and children need are help! cloth's food, bath room stuff ect, the lakota children need every thing you take for granted but there will be a day real soon if it don't stop creator will be stepping in to end all the white mans destrucktion too are way of life! to long to much gone enought is enough how can you go to sleep at nigh nowing you can do some thing but choose to do nothing but look out for you! what good is that!
please take a stand love some one you don't know today do some thing for the guy done the street on the corner! give him your shoes if he doesn't have any and you got another pair at home.
Gv Ge Yu Wado.

ShadowWalker RavenEyes Dibler

Well spoken brother. I am a Native American and proud. The great spirit will show and give justice. It is written in the stats and spoke on elders lips. If by chance anyone doubts what is happening to our fellow brothers, will personally go there and take the pics needed for their proof.

Ricky Marcel

.......NDN/\INDIAN/\IN THE END.......

I think our native american brothers of all tribes got a raw deal. time to make things better.

Ben Panger

Not sure if trolling, right wing, or just insanely stupid.

BeeJay Harrison

Ben Panger..... insanely stupid (nobodypresslike.... the name fits)

the white man knows he is wrong, its time to give back to the real americans there land and the white man needs to know he is the native american this is and always will be indian land aho two my brothers and sisters of this land! I am two feathers cherokee indian and proud to be me! to rape the land to make a profit is a real savge.i'm not a native I am an indian who's grand fathers grandfathers grandfather has cared for this earth(mother)and only taken what he needed to live, now we have...

the white man knows he is wrong, its time to give back to the real americans there land and the white man needs to know he is the native american this is and always will be indian land aho two my brothers and sisters of this land! I am two feathers cherokee indian and proud to be me! to rape the land to make a profit is a real savge.i'm not a native I am an indian who's grand fathers grandfathers grandfather has cared for this earth(mother)and only taken what he needed to live, now we have to eat what the white man has breeded in a building are food is sapose to be give bye creator not men ho raise are food behind closed doors!

William J. Simonetti

Edward through my friends that are native Americans I know that the whiteman in the past have wronged our red brothers. I as a modern whiteman am in sympathy with you all but need to know what I can do to help this cause.

THE NATIVE AMERICANS, THE HAWAIIANS, THE PUERTO RICANS ,, THE MEXICANS AND FREED AFRICANS DESERVE THIS SOVEREIGNTY PROTECTION AND REPREATIONS FOR AMERICAN INJUSTICES TO THEIR RESPECTIVE RACES.

Darryl Carter

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these are a marvelous people, I worked with them for three years. stop the genocide by the U.S.Government Hey if any of my Lakota Friends see this , tell everyone Rabbi Joe says HELLO!

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