We continue to insist that the Oglala Lakota Nation possesses the unfettered, international legal right to self-determination. Article 3 of the UN Declaration affirms the full enjoyment of our inherent, natural right to self-determination, without limit and without qualification. We reject any limited interpretation of Article 3 of the Declaration, and we recall that Indigenous peoples, in the drafting process of the UNDRIP, demanded that the international right of self-determination be applied to Indigenous peoples in the same manner that it has been applied to all other peoples under colonial or foreign subjugation, domination or occupation. The denial of the rights embodied in Article 3 by the United States government, through its law and policies, presents a clinical case of governance that is fundamentally inconsistent with the UNDRIP. The Oglala Lakota Nation further rejects the assertions of the United States government, as stated in its announcement of 9 December 2010, that the UNDRIP calls for “a distinct international concept of self-determination specific to indigenous peoples.” The Oglala Lakota Nation rejects the fabricated claim of the United States that the Declaration is intended “to promote the development of a concept of self-determination for indigenous peoples that is different from the existing right of self-determination in international law. “
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 16:47:03 +0000
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