I don't say this often, but this is an exception.
You are an idiot.
The Lakota were never members of the union, in the same sense as, say, Texas.
That's my final comment on that thread hijacking "argument."
They were a sovereign nation that joined the U.S. under treaty agreement. They had a higher order status in negotiating with the U.S. because they weren’t simply and already “territories” of the U.S. before becoming a state. They had been a *sovereign nation* even before the United States existed and even before the colonies even existed on this continent. So, they were here a lot longer than either the U.S. or the British or the French or the Spanish — on this continent.
Thus, if anyone has the right to secede from the U.S. they are *at the top of the list* — in front of anyone else’s rights to do so... LOL...