Categorical Aperitif

I was catching up with my Undernews RSS and ran across this:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.

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.

They also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and will continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months, they told the news conference.

Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

Dunno what to make of this, and so far it seems to have attracted mainly regional and foreign notice, but I must say that my first thoughts upon reading it were of what a golden opportunity it presents for the wingnutosphere:

Injun revolt! And they're talking to some o' them South American socialists! This is even worse than that Aztlan thing! They're trying to steal our land! Back, but you know what I mean.

Can desperate warnings about the aboriginofascist menace be far behind? I mean, think about it: if you take John Wayne's character in The Searchers, subtract the ruggedness, the personal courage, and the psychological depth but leave in the racism, the paranoia, and the bloodthirstiness, wouldn't you basically have a right-wing blogger?

Discuss.