Sioux Sue For Nation

Sioux Sue For Nation

A nine-day convention in South Dakota -- attended by an estimated 3500 Indians from 97 Western Hemisphere tribes -- has called for an independent Indian nation to be set up within the United States.

Delegates to the "First International Treaty Convention", held at Mobridge, South Dakota, voted overwhelmingly last week to send a delegation to the United Nations seeking recognition of their Indian rights.

The delegates adopted a six-page declaration which calls on the United States government to turn over the western half of the state of South Dakota. The declaration says this territory was promised to the Oglala Sioux Nation under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 - but that the United States government later ignored that promise. --ZODIAC