How do you know ? may I ask... or ar you just repeating "facts"that you have heard?
I think Russell Means would have had something to say about the "two tribe" as you call it, situation being just spin.... but then I am sure you know already all about that.
Until there is further clarification you are as in the dark a anyone else ........... admit it!
I've enumerated the 7 facts I'm claiming below.
Which do you dispute?
If none, then you must agree that the claim that MazaCoin is working with a different Ogala govenment than that recognised by the government is false?
[1] The MazaCoin site (
http://www.mazacoin.org/) has a link to the Traditional Lakota Nation (
http://www.oglalalakotanation.org/oln/Home.html).
Go to that webpage, click Government, click Executive Committee.
[2]You will see that the President is Bryan Brewer,
[3]the same one who has publicly said that the tribe has not adopted MazaCoin as an official currency.
Go to the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations page for the Ogala:
http://www.sdtribalrelations.com/oglala.aspx[4]Scroll down to Current President. You will see that is it Bryan Brewer.
[5]Check the 'View the Oglala Sioux Tribe's website' link. You will see it takes you to the same ogalalakotanation.org page.
[6]The entity that MazaCoin say that they are working with is the same entity listed on the government web page as being the tribal government, and
[7]that entity has denied adopting MazaCoin as an official currency.
Hi - the
How do you know? in bold was directed to the
spin comment in bold in your orignial post
I think Russell Means would have had something to say about the "two tribe" as you call it, situation being just spin.... but then I am sure you know already all about that.
Until there is
further clarification you are as in the dark a anyone else ........... admit it!
Yes I have seen Bryan Brewers comments... and I have taken them into account.
I also believe there is a lot more going on here than is on the direct surface...
There is a difference between the traditional leadership and the government sanctioned or what you might call the white mans unofficially official tribal government... I mean does an "official federal tribal government" at this point make sense to you?
Also brewer did comment about his little visit from the FBI ... I believe that is not indispute - I wonder how that conversation went down and what subsequent covnersations were had amongst the Lakota.
Also there is more going on there at the moment than just Mazacoin... infact Mazacoin is not ontop of Brewers list of things to be invloved with..
I think pipelines and ganja fields and budgets are more his thing right now.
There will be more on this in the future... could the coin have been marketed better, yes was it misleading.. maybe... maybe not... lets wait and see
what comes from all of this.
Payu is known in the community for years, and is being very public about his role and about the coin, he is not exactly sneeking around...
so it remains to be seen who said what to who and what has been agreed and not....and where it will lead.
You know as much as we do in that Brewer made the comments he made, in his capacity of the role he is in.. no more no less... and YES they have a meaning... but NO it may not be the be all and end all of it- if it is for you then that is fine, I have more patience, and in light of other factors around this project, and around other goings on in the area and in recent(ish) history think there is more to come on the legal situtaion.
sidenote
Those federal handouts sound great- but how much longer can the fed hand out anything to anyone you may ask? the country is diving down a blackhole of debt that nothing can save it from... those handouts are not long for this world anyway.