*gobsmacked*

A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.

I saw this courtesy of theweaselking.

I really don't know what it will mean in the long term - I'm too ignorant of US demographics, politics, statecraft and most of all history to even speculate. But the act itself has really shocked me.