HOME PAGE -  Chief Richard Grass spoke for the L.D.N. Nation in rejecting the 1980 Supreme Court Ruling that offered $40 million in exchange for 40 million acres of the sacred Black Hills. The Grass' family dynasty has been involved in drafting and signing ALL the treaties.  His Great Great Grandfather, Chief John Grass, (as a sovereign - king-) was the strategist for and went to the Battle of the Little Bighorn to protect his land and people from the deceptive and exploitive policies of the U.S. Government.  In winning  the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this nation still legally retains by International Law the lands illegally "sold" in the Louisiana Purchase.  Learn about this in Chief Grass' own words in  2010 interview here.
We are sad to report the passing of Chief Richard Grass on Thursday, December  23, 2010.  On the wings of the last big snowstorm in South Dakota for 2010, funeral services were conducted  at the Mother Butler Center in Rapid City , South Dakota,  at 10:00 a.m. Thursday December  30, and burial  followed at National Cemetery in Sturgis  on Thursday, Dec. 30. Chief Richard Grass' bloodline descent continues through his daughter and grandchildren (still very young).  His adopted sister (along with several highly respected elders who worked with us in creating this site)  carries on in good health and continues his work after a year of mourning/keeping of the soul is completed.  Please see  Memorial Page on this site and stay tuned in 2012 for future information and activities from the remaining Charging Bear relative appointed to carry on this work.  Two months prior to his passing, Chief "Charging Bear" Richard Grass was scheduled for an online interview.  In his honor, we conducted this interview Wed. 4:00 p.m. Mountain time as scheduled (the same time a wake was beginning in his honor in Rapid City that same day).  This interview includes segments of recordings of Richard's thoughts and reflections from previous interviews.  You may listen to this "live" interview by clicking HERE.

Your support of this site and the ongoing dedication to the work towards publishing of the John Charging Bear Grass book  is now especially urgent and timely as we continue the focus needed to achieve the goals that Chief Richard Grass initiated and dedicated his good life energies to. 

NEWS!  UPDATES! NEW PHOTOS posted 12-11-11 of Chief Richard Charging Bear Grass at June 25, 2001 rally for Indian Memorial at Battlefield
From Pine Ridge - Please watch http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/SH559026/VD55148316/2020-1014-children-of-the-plains - a true story finally getting some press about  the present state of the people of Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge .  Setting the stage for the ongoing work by Spirit of this site and the Traditional, Spiritual, Dynastic Council of the Great Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Nation (L.D.N.) a sovereign nation International.

WALKING IN BALANCE TOWARD OUR FUTURE:  U-Tubes of the week -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=fRaM0whsnxo   http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=qU4p_StNFpc

OFFICIAL wEB SITE OF
Chief  Richard  Grass

Traditional, Spiritual, Dynastic and Grand Chief of the General Council of the Great

LAKOTA, DAKOTA , NAKOTA NATION (L.D.N.)

National & International Government
 A Sovereign Nation International
 Re-Established at Bear Butte - July 14, 1991

"Let this be our Preamble and Constitution:   Have Respect For All.
Now let the remedies and rectification begin for land restoration and reparations."  

   John Charging Bear Grass
 Chief John Grass - Charging Bear
 Great Grandfather of

Richard Grass
Blood line descendent of  Chief Two Strike, Chief Red Cloud, Chief White Swan, Chief Sitting Bull,
Old Chief Frost, Chief White Bird, Chief Crazy Horse
"Our plight does not belong in Indian Claim Commissions, the Senate of the United States, or Congress of the United States, or the Supreme Courts of the United States as these are International Treaty Violations that belong in International Tribunals in order to finally resolve and rectify the problems caused by the U.S. military government and Canadian military government."  Chief Richard Grass

Legal Council:

Francis A. Boyle, International Lawyer
Professor of Law
University of Illinois College of Law

Mission Statement

Following the footsteps of my Great Grandfather, Chief John Grass, as treaty Chief for the L.D.N. Nation and dynastic Grand Chief of the General Council I have posted this web site for educational purposes as a resource of strength and pride for our people, to help broaden understanding of our nation, and to give insight into the work being prayerfully done to see that the treaties now still in force are finally honored, as I continue to work to preserve our broad land base, our unique and beautiful languages, traditional, cultural, and spiritual ways of life for our people now and to benefit all nations' future generations.

Goals

1.  To be recognized as a viable Nation (not a state) continuing to work internationally to implement successful ways to preserve our broad land base, unique and beautiful languages, traditional, cultural, and spiritual ways of life for our people now and to benefit all nations' future generations.

2.  To immediately find funding to keep this web site online and to finally publish manuscripts for the book "John Grass, American Indian Patriot" written by Angela A. Boleyn,  in the Moon of the Tipsin Buds, 1961, and later gifted by her family heirs at her request to the remaining Grass family dynasty.  This book has awaited a good time and way to be published in it's entirety, to tell the world of the true Lakota-Dakota-Nakota story and our ways of life, as well as to finally reveal many unknown facts about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, our true peaceful and cooperative relationships with many tribes, and document our nations' origins and the dynastic line of Traditional Chiefs that have been preserved down to this day.  If you would like to help support the publishing of this timely and important book, please click here.

3.  To raise funds through the sale of the book and through our online support site to support this web site and the administrative costs of the L.D.N. Nation, so that workable ways may be found and implemented for our nation to thrive again, to strike a balance of living within our traditional values in these modern times so that we may become a strong, dynamic, self sufficient and self sustainable nation living in respect of Mitakuye Oyasin (all our relations - we are all related) and thus to provide for the many urgent needs of our people both on and off the reservations.

4. To publish this informational website worldwide as a vehicle to communicate to all interested parties the facts about the Treaties made between this nation and others, and present additional relevant documentation, so as to educate and work through all available legal and international means to see that the provisions and implications of these treaties are finally and fully understood and honored by all parties.

Click here to Listen to 4-28-10 online  interview with Chief Grass

the book  -
John Grass, American Indian Patriot
written by Angela A. Boleyn

How the book came to be

"Let this be our Preamble and Constitution: Have Respect for all. Now let the remedies and rectification begin for land restoration and reparations." Richard Grass ~

Perspective: The legal information on this site is extensive.  For a brief and concise overview of the issues Please click here to see an informational video regarding the problems and history of "illegal immigration"

"The Lakota have no intention of depriving anyone of their equity or just title.  In simpler terms, the Lakota have a proprietary right as principal, and the U.S. as agent has made huge profits and incurred great losses using the lands, resources, and peoples of the Lakota region.  The losses are now so great that the principal must institute special measures to correct the problem because the principal is the one upon whom such a duty is incumbent.  Thus the Lakota Chiefs have several projects in mind to begin to correct the debt problem that should also benefit the world at large. 

Your consideration, cooperation and support by way of a donation for operating expenses is appreciated.

WELCOME  Home wolakota - Thoughts from the webmaster

KINSHIP:  The simple beauty of what we hold in our hands at this time is to walk into each day in the now, in dignity, wisdom, respect and honor of our ancient life ways of kinship - kinship with the land and each other -and walk in a better way to make our nations and relationships with one another and all of Mother Earth's nations strong once again - Mitakuye Oyasin -  that the people may live.

"The ideal which held together and governed the many tribes and gentes of this far-flung nation was Kinship, which conceived every individual as related to the other, no matter how remote or complex the tie.  To know one's relationship to every other Saone, and to think and act in accordance with the inviolable mandates controlling each kind and degree of Kinship was the preoccupation of the people - not war, conquest, love or prestige.

Everything, even life itself, was subordinate to the demands of Kinship.  It was a disciplining and civilizing force which made for courtesy and dignity, privacy and decency in the crowded tipi or on the march, the protection and provision for the needy, the weak, the aged.  It was a way of life which worked to the advantage of all.  To be known as a "good relative" was the quintessence of Saone culture.  Kinship was symbolized in the headband all wore which carried the tipi design.  Tipi means the "place where one lives", hence home, the most prized of Saone possessions."  excerpt from to be published book
"John Grass, American Indian Patriot" written by Angela A. Boleyn, 
in the Moon of the Tipsin Buds, 1961, and later gifted by her family heirs at her request, to the remaining Grass family dynasty.  This book has awaited a good time and way to be published in it's entirety, which is close at hand, as soon as adequate funding is secured for this project.  If you would like to help please click here.

Kinship relationship in practice fosters Harmony, Balance, Abundance, Peace - this a spiritual practice, and in walking this in practice - in the way we think, speak, live, walk in our daily lives - we become the ceremony,  and this understanding is deeply embedded within the many generations of the daily lives of those of the traditional LAKOTA, DAKOTA, NAKOTA Nations. 

Kinship relationship understanding starts first in the heart, then the home, then from there blossoms into the practice of the nation and the effect us two-leggeds have upon the natural environment in which we live. 

Many words have been said, and there is much more of great importance on this website and in the publishing of a long held book for these times yet to read, yet as we learn the greater truths about our nation not accurately reported in the majority of history books - each of us now especially needs to ask ourselves....

                                     will the tongues in our shoes follow the tongues in our mouths? 

It seems so easy to point fingers, cast blame, but that has proven to be ineffectual, and is the hardest of ways, as we have seen during this past century full of many pains and troubles for our nation as well as all of Mother Earths' nations, while the traditional spiritual Chiefs have awaited a good and safe time to bring out the information to point our hearts and our nations to a way of mending the circle again (the sacred hoop).. 

OUR CHALLENGE:  This web site is here to challenge hearts to awaken anew to the spirit of the ancestors' way of life and thought, and bring it forward to live and walk on our sacred Mother Earth in a right way again now, so that the people of the traditional LAKOTA, DAKOTA, NAKOTA Nations may live in Harmony, Balance, Abundance, Peace and spearhead a new way of living example and teaching to honor and preserve life force on our planet. 

Many have forgotten that each part of us effects the whole of us, my relatives.  It is time to reclaim our proud and effective heritage from generations of suffering, mourning and self-pity.  It is time to stand tall, clean up our homes, our lives, our communities and ways of "doing business" to ways that reflect our most sacred beliefs.  We are the caretakers of the earth! 

A drive down our poverty ridden reservation streets shows this is and has not been in practice or within our power and/or intent for a long time now with so many outside influences contaminating and suppressing.  But this is not surprising - mankind's "modern" cities have been built on destructive principles and even the "richest" of cities now live in "poverty" within the natural cycles and life force energies of Mother Earths natural way.  But we can change back again, we can reclaim much of what seems to have been lost in the destructive practices of a greedy, materialistic society that has mis-used the gifts of stone nation (gold, silver, precious gems from deep within Mother Earth) to divide, conquer and destroy many nations, all in the name of a false idea of what is "profitable".   We, a traditionally land based people, can help one another and ourselves to put back the pieces and restore our rich heritage,  and now is the time to show the world who we are by the way we quietly, proudly, bravely and resolutely walk and live in a sacred manner.

This cannot be a political quest, for politics are from a world not of our making, and as you know, politics continually change with the times and the leaders, and there is always too much room for argument and misunderstandings and too much emphasis on "power and control" which is not our way.  Land based peoples have always understood that true power belongs to the natural world - of stars, suns, moons, the life-ways of grass, trees, ocean and skies.  We have had ample time now and many examples to see over time that mankind's destructive ways out of harmony with these life nurturing forces is a dead end road. 

Our dynasty of Chiefs has always striven to rise above the debasement of the destructive mindset of "civilized" man, patiently waiting for the safe and good time to act for the good of all, focusing their hope and intent on our ancient system of thought and understanding, by holding to the wisdom ways of our ancestors and holding resolutely to the words of the treaties our ancestors prayerfully signed, even at seemingly great loss to our people and our ways for a time, all held close in the heart in the wisdom of the ways of kinship, respect and relationship for the time of good Springtime to blossom again. 

In the wisdom of the circle of life, Spring always follows the death throws of Winter.  And just so, though mostly hidden from the outside world, the dynasty of our nation has survived the very long hard winter of our tribes' many troubles and testings, yet this dynasty now continues to remain for us, sent from many generations from cautious ancestors and wisdom keepers who have been watching and waiting for the good time to bring forth the time proven effective ways to help our people again after so long existing within the strong influences of a dominating culture that has forged a very misunderstood and hostile environment from both inside and outside of our nations. 

WHAT WE HAVE ENDURED:  What greater hostilities to a nation could be extended than all that we have already experienced?  Genocide of our relatives the buffalo nation and our source of sustenance,  also diseased blankets in an effort to kill us all , continual warfare against us, tearing us away from and robbing all our land and stripping it of its natural beauty and abundant resources, a continuing and oppressive imposed dependence on the dominating culture resulting in our learning to mistrust ourselves, our old ways, and one another, resulting in ongoing poverty, unemployment, and a confused, corrupted, albeit sometimes well-intended interjection of re-education and religious rules imposed upon us to make us conform to a dysfunctional way of life that continues to destroy not only us, but all the natural resources on Mother Earth.

 With the slow excruciating progression of this disease upon our culture, languages, natural land honoring life ways and healthful diet and traditions, from inside and outside infested by prejudice and misinformation and from every corner of history books, movies, and press (written most often by those who do not even know our ways of kinship), slowly and methodically this erosion of everything great that we are has looked like total destruction.  Yet their still remain small pieces, and each small piece is rich with hope and information enough to rebirth and retain our great culture.  As below, so above - as above, so below.

And the final insult by the dominant culture - all this continues to be "hidden" as general news coverage gives more press to poverty, genocide and oppression outside U.S. borders.  As our old ones pass and our blood lines continue to thin, we justifiably feel threatened with the real danger of meeting the final obliteration of our culture as so many hundreds of tribes before us have experienced.  And yet, as a united whole in the spirit of our hearts, for the most part, we can choose to hold our integrity in that our traditional and spiritual councils have kept to our part of the treaties down to this very day, holding to the hope that the promises made there will one day be heard, understood and honored as Creator has directed and put in the hearts of our treating signing ancestors. 

We have more than survived.  We have endured  - and now the gifts of our heritage are returning to us once again at the right time and way, to help us find a foothold as a nation, a spirit directed people, who can rebirth to the wisdom of our ancestors while creating in our current world practical ways to live our lives with integrity and respect. 

It's  ALL about the land - and our good kinship relationships with all nations thereupon.

"Colonel A.B. Welch, blood-adopted white son of Chief John Grass, contributed the chief’s own account of the Custer Battle as John Grass gave it to him in 1913 with the provision that it was not to be used “until all who were in the fighting are dead”.  That time has come.  Even so, I first asked permission of the present chief, who granted my request.  Colonel Welch also offered his many notes made on his experiences as the son of the famous chieftain. 

Mrs. Nellie Schoenhurt (Pretty Star), in whose home in Fort Yates I lived for more than three months while doing research in the Agency Archives, had been Head Nurse in the Government Indian Hospital for eighteen years.  She had known John Grass well and cared for him in his last illness.  She also interpreted many stories told me by Indians who came to see me at her house. 

Father Bernard Strassmeyer, Catholic Priest at Fort Yates, was an interested contributor.  He summed up a long period of observing the chief as a communicant of his Church in these words, “John Grass was innately a good man as well as a great one.  He lifted the thoughts of his people.” 

This study has been in a degree comparable to the painstaking labor of restoring a badly damaged mosaic which in its original wholeness portrayed a stirring drama of the Great Plains with John Grass the central figure.  I have had to sift and sort fragments from the rubble of conjecture, myth and legend of careless or indifferent recording by white men, and overcome reluctance of the Indians themselves to supply their side of each happening.  Their fear of reprisal even at this late date is very real.  They know what the white man has done and is still doing. 

As the pieces have eventually fitted into place, I have before me an amazing yet strangely moving and beautiful picture.  And I have learned the true meaning of “bravery”.  John Grass and his people understood it. 

In the words of Frederick Remington, “Leave me the truths of other days.”  excerpt from to be published book
"John Grass, American Indian Patriot" written by Angela A. Boleyn, 
in the Moon of the Tipsin Buds, 1961, and later gifted by her family heirs at her request, to the remaining Grass family dynasty.  This book has awaited a good time and way to be published in it's entirety, which is close at hand, as soon as adequate funding is secured for this project.  If you would like to help please click here..

Yes, we have seen much pain, and with many, many prayers and talking with one another, hopefully by now, we have gained wisdom from our suffering so that finally we may see with clear bright eyes what goodness lies ahead for us. 

It is time to let go of the sadness, along with all bitterness, in order to bring the circle round again into the Harmony, Balance, Abundance, Peace intended for us by our Creator, to be practiced in each of our hearts, our homes, and in the heart of this great nation for this people to LIVE! 

It's  ALL about the land - and our good kinship relationships with all nations thereupon.

OUR GREATEST RESOURCE AND ASSET:  Our greatest resource and asset has been with us along, and too many have been blinded to it for too long, which has caused us our greatest pain and embarrassment - some may have forgotten - but our kinship remains.  We have each other. Mitakuye Oyasin.

May your travels through this website and, once published, through the pages of the life story of John Grass, may you gain a heart of insight, wisdom and a renewed spirit. As we each continue to grow to understand the deeper knowledge of the importance of kinship, cultivating good balance in relationship within ourselves, our families, our circle of friendships, our natural dynastic tribal system, and look at better ways to live and relate in this age to all nations on Mother Earth, may we find the most effective, peace and  life honoring ways to express our freedom and wholeness to bless ALL our relations. 

It is a simple fact - all prophecies come true, and now is the time to relearn what our hearts already know, that love, generosity and kindness are great and dignified powers, so much greater powers than fear and all that go with it. 

The grass grows tall again in Paha Sapa, at Inyan Kara,  and as each awakens to and takes pride and responsibility in the gifts each have been given for this sacred time in our history,  we learn anew how to walk in a sacred manner. 

This is not about demonstrations, suffering, fighting against anything or making strong gesturing, nor even just blindly "suffering" (as Christian influences/attitudes have encouraged) nor just hopelessly "enduring".   Many have tried these things as a walk or lifestyle, only to end up in disappointment and discouragement all the more so.  These things have never served us well in the long run as they run contrary to the celebration of life and the honoring of true freedom and respect of harmony and balance that we carry in our genes, through our true cultural traditions and life-ways passed on to us from the ancestors. 

It's  ALL about the land - and our good kinship relationships with all nations thereupon.

THAT THE PEOPLE MAY LIVE NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE:  This is fully about living, breathing, appreciating the simple and most sacred gift we have been given - LIFE - and placing our kinship and relationship responsibilities high again as we rediscover the life ways of living in a true, meaningful, and sacred sense as real human beings again - fully wolakota.  It's so much more than a piece of paper or the color of our skin or eyes - but in a better way for a new time it's about heart.  This is the only way and place for what is left of our culture to survive in a good way - through individual, daily, practice in what we think, speak, walk, do. In our hearts we each much ask ourselves now in our personal journey...

1.  Where may I fit Harmony, Balance, Abundance, Peace into my every thought, word, and action upon our Mother Earth? 

2.  How may I best use my talents to better myself, my family, my nation and all my relations? 

3.  How may I strengthen my kinship ties with wisdom, respect, balance and dignity to honor Mitakuye Oyasin?

4.  Will I be ready when my nation succeeds in restoring and preserving our broad land base, our unique and beautiful languages, traditional, cultural, and spiritual ways of life for our people now and for future generations of all nations and where, how may I fit my talents and abilities into honoring this?  (Nake nula waun yelo/yeh)

When each recognizes this grand response-ability as humans - as land based, land honoring and land friendly people (as our most wise and abundant ancestors lived in kinship with all life powers) the natural nations will again truly thrive.  To learn to LIVE in the ways of our ancestors yet find a balance within this current world -this is the challenge! It begins with reclaiming good relationship with the land.

It's  ALL about the land - and our good kinship relationships with all nations thereupon.

As our traditional Chiefs and wise elders have planted the long guarded seeds and now continue to see it spread out leaves, to educate, communicate, strengthen, and witness this way of life active again in the strong and courageous hearts of good people walking the ways of Harmony, Balance, Abundance, Peace - Kinship -  there will once again stand a strong, numerous and proud people like a large flowering tree, the buffalo nation, Lakota Oyate - the nation,.  For Those Who Wear Honor Well (once again), and naturally, as was promised all along, all the dreams and prophecies will have come full circle as so many have seen in visions and dreams for this time.   Webmaster

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"John Grass, American Indian Patriot"
written by Angela A. Boleyn

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THIS WEB SITE IS UNDER CONTINUAL UPDATE AND CONSTRUCTION. 

NEW PHOTOS posted of Chief Richard Charging Bear Grass at June 25, 2001 rally for Indian Memorial at Battlefield

In 1996 Chief Grass sent a letter to President Clinton and convened a tribunal against Genocide at Standing Rock Reservation. Copies of the proceedings documents will be added to this web site as time and resources allow.  For the past year we have been operating with NO funding from any outside sources.  If you would like to be a part of the solution and assist our efforts to educate our people on these issues please respond to our HELP page. For an overview of these issues and the results of that meeting please read TRUER THAN EVER IN 2010 - a March 1996 article from People's Tribune entitled

"Lakota Nation:  Mirror of America" 
 Quote from that article: " The entire class of jobless, semi-employed, marginally surviving Americans is being pushed to the level of the Indian reservation."

News!  Chief Grass has sent a 13 page Letter to the WHITE HOUSE  - CLICK HERE TO READ. (No reply has been received yet). 

the book  -
John Grass,
American Indian Patriot
written by Angela A. Boleyn
How the book came to be
Introduction with the books' Acknowledgements and Legend
Table of Contents
 Forward - A Premise to History
 The Sihasapa Story
Prologue
PLEASE HELP
GRASS Dynasty of Chiefs

LEGAL DOCUMENTS
 Following are some examples of a few of the many legal documents and correspondence continually being made known and generated by Richard Grass personally and through the tribes' International Attorney on behalf of restoration and reparations


 1995 Ft. Yates Tribunal
1996 Example of U.S. Appeals

Alloidal Title Statement

Canadian Appeal

Charter of Cooperative Assn. of Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Chiefs

Genocide Statement

Member Bands
 International Court & Tribunals

Reclaiming the Black Hills

Unrepresented Peoples Org.

ARTICLES OF INTEREST;  

If you are in a hurry, and unfamiliar with this subject matter, here are some brief ARTICLES OF INTEREST;   A broken treaty haunts the Black Hills
 article from the Argus Reader 6/27/01

Spirit of the Lakota
article from FEMA  July 6, 1999

Also, please check out "Support" page

TREATies still in force
 The Keeping of Sacred Words

2010 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE PAGE

U.N.Charter

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