"Standing Silent Nation"

"Standing Silent Nation" The film details the Lakota struggle to provide income for the poorest county in the nation through the production of industrial hemp only to have the federal government destroy the crops and arrest community members.This compelling documentary chronicles the story of this Native American family’s struggle and their assertion of sovereignty retained by the Lakota in the Ft. Laramie Treaties with the United States of both 1851 and 1868.
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International Human Rights and Justice Program
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Standing Silent Nation Help Our Generations To Be Free : by Debra White Plume

As the White Plume extended family, we engaged in an act that some call heroic, some ridicule as a thin veil for the legalization of majiuana, while others do not know what response to register. In a conversation about this action we are taking, there probably will be controversy. After all, we chose to step out of a box of conditioned thought . Some people hail this action as assertion of sovereignty retained by the Lakota in the Ft. Laramie Treaties with the United States of both 1851 and 1868. We believe this is core to our action, we are asserting our legal, sovereign right to live according to the laws of our people. In addition to this assertion, we believe there is a way out of the poverty and oppression weighing heavily on the Oglala Lakota, known as the “Oglala Sioux Tribe”, who have had the distinction of living in the poorest county in America for the past twenty-some years... cont'd on weblinks above.