Camp Sovereignty

On Thanksgiving Day, 2009, we will begin a simple thing. A simple joining of the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. A joining together of People: Young and Old, Male and Female, to begin a dialogue. A dialogue of Elements, of People, of Time and Place. A dialogue of a People, begins.
Fomented by an alleged act of brutality by a non-Lakota store owner upon a Lakota Man, we have joined together to direct focus and action upon the very causes of our Symptoms of Oppression. Responding to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes call to boycott Dales Sinclair, we initially all met at the corner of Main Street and Highway 212 in support of the boycott. Rather than muddle in the muck and mire of the myriad of symptoms themselves, symptoms rampant throughout the societal spectrum of our People such as: lack of housing, poor housing, homelessness, hopelessness, cyclic addictions, cyclic afflictions, fratricide, patricide, matricide and suicide, (of which we are all victims) we decided to do something which could begin to address the actual cause of our Symptoms of Oppression: Imperialism.
Imperialism upon Lakota Oyate Ki causes Lakol Wicohan Ki to be subordinate to the rules of racism, for only racism would justify the continued subordination of the one Cure for our social ills: Sovereignty.
Sovereignty, according to the Lakota Paradigm, would absolutely consist of governance and decision making at the familial level, thereby undoing the familial destruction wrought by the initial invasion, occupation, and subsequent reservation and boarding school eras. Only when one understands the complete societal devastation and repercussions created among our People by an Imperialism which focused upon destroying families and children especially, can we begin to grasp the utter need for a repair of those things broken.
For now we stand at a moment in History when the awaited Seventh Generation is coming to the fore. Therefore we have joined together, to begin a Camp. A simple Tipi created by simple People in hopes of creating a place of mending. A place to come together, with the Drum, and the Fire, and the Tipi, and the People, to talk, meet, discuss and send a voice. We can document our voices ourselves, and send our voices throughout the world, to ears that hear and to eyes that see.
We are establishing a Camp. A lone Tipi standing at a crossroad, a symbol of our Nation planted at a juncture of Place and Time. Both a beginning and a continuum of Sovereignty. A non-aggressive, non-violent assertion of Humanity which was fomented by brutality.
A living reminder of Freedom, rather than protest, this action will continue as a Lifeway, creating a place for Sovereignty to be discussed. We will begin compiling video footage of the Voices of the Oyate, to be made into a documentary, to be sent around the world as a simple Voice of Lakota Oyate Ki. All Lakota are invited to participate in this Historic action. Join us, around the Fire, at the Tipi, with the Drum and the People, and send your Voice to the World.
Mitakye Owasin.