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Just before the Fed's 6pm deadline to clear out of Wounded Knee, Russell Means sees Dennis Banks come flying into the village in a beat-up bright blue sports car.

Banks jumped out of the car with his face paint and leather vest and declares triumphantly that the Fed's just back down from the deadline.

What's more, the roadblocks are coming down. Means can't really believe it. All he can think is that maybe the Fed's imagined pulling back will rob the occupation of drama, that the news cameras will just lose interest and everyone will leave town.

Well, he could tell them right now it will do exactly the opposite. And he is right.

Without the roadblocks, Indians from all over the country stream into Wounded Knee, college students from the Pueblos in New Mexico, Cherokee from Reservations, Noqua, Homa and Fishing Rights activists from the tribes of the Pacific Northwest.

With them come representatives from seemingly every segment of American counterculture. A large group of gun-toting Vietnam veterans against the war, some of them in wheelchairs, a few black panthers and Chicano and white radicals all within a few days.

Now these new recruits are gathered on the hilltop near the T.P. They are joined by the original occupiers, all waiting for means to speak.

The Ogalala leadership has just concluded an all-day meeting with the decision that will change everything for the occupation. And it's means job to announce it to the occupiers and news crews from around the world.

He walks towards the T.P. at the top of the hill and grabs a megaphone.

The leadership of the Ogalala Lakota here present at Wounded Knee have declared Wounded Knee an independent country.

We are now the independent Ogalala Nation.

The Ogalala have revived the Treaty of 1868 that granted them their own nation. From this day forward, that treaty will be the basis for all negotiations.

We will seek recognition by the United Nations and continue to demand a government to government meeting with the White House.

Means face turns the stone. He can't resist adding a little flourish for the cameras to make sure the feds take the independent Ogalala Nation seriously.

Furthermore, if any spy from the United States of America is found within our borders, they will be dealt with as a spy in a time of war and be shot before a firing squad.

Means looks out at the crowd. Everyone's in a celebratory mood. The independence Ogalala Nation has a nice ring to it.

Against all odds, the occupation has survived nearly two weeks and gained the world's attention. So why stop there? Why stop anywhere short of full sovereignty and freedom from American rule? They haven't. They won't.

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