More power to them. I wouldn't be surprised to see the army swarming in once again, to do another Custer. Only problem is this time the Indians would lose.

True, they lost against a better armed invader. It's also true that they were attacked as infamously as the Japanese attacked us, in a cowardly fashion, being killed man, woman and infant. All they ever did was to defend their own land and we handled it poorly by breaking treaty after treaty and swarming over their villages committing genocide.

If they can at least gain more autonomy and break out of their grinding poverty because of this move, it will be more than worthwhile. I don't see them ever actually becoming a separate nation within the U.S. boundaries. maybe they can make the government give back the gold take from the Black Hills illegally by ignoring the treaty. We have lots of it in Fort Knox that just sits there and serves no purpose whatever. We went off the gold standard long ago. Time to give it back. I like the idea anyway.