Peta Omniciye, Inc.

05/22/2026

Disclaimer Statement

The Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council and Sicangu Climate Center are not developing, proposing, or constructing commercial data centers on the Rosebud Reservation or Oceti Sakowin treaty lands.

Our work focuses on climate adaptation, environmental monitoring, data sovereignty, treaty rights protection, education, and building local technological capacity for the benefit of our communities. Discussions involving technology, servers, artificial intelligence, or data systems are related to research, environmental analysis, cultural and language preservation, and tribal self-determination — not the development of industrial-scale data center infrastructure.

We are also not proposing the sale of tribal lands, natural resources, or “carbon offsets” to outside corporations as has been inaccurately suggested. Any discussions regarding buffalo restoration, climate resiliency, or ecological stewardship are centered on traditional Lakota values, land restoration, food sovereignty, and protection of Maka Sitomniya for future generations.

We encourage community members to seek accurate information directly from official Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council communications and public meetings rather than relying on speculation or misinformation circulated on social media.

05/21/2026

Regional Climate Collaborative Workshop - Afternoon Session - Ft. Yates, ND

05/21/2026

Workshop

05/21/2026

Regional Climate Collaborative Workshop in Ft. Yates, N.D.

05/05/2026

For the next seven generations, our path forward is rooted in remembering who we are.

As Indigenous Nations, we each carry our own sacred economies—our own ways of life given to us by our ancestors. For the Lakota, it is the bison. In the Northwest, it is the salmon. To the East, the Three Sisters—corn, beans, and squash—and wild rice. In the Southwest, corn and turquoise. These are not just foods—they are governance systems, relationships, and living economies.

Our survival depends on returning to these ways.

But returning does not mean going backward. It means moving forward with purpose—using modern tools, technology, and innovation to rebuild our own financial systems that serve our people, not outside interests. Systems rooted in sovereignty, culture, and responsibility to future generations.

This is why Peta Omniciye, Inc. was created.

Our mission is to support inherent sovereignty through traditional Lakota governance, helping guide our tiwahe, tiospaye, ospaye, and oyate back to the teachings of our ancestors—toward self-sufficiency and true sustainability.

Our work is also grounded in our inherent and treaty-protected rights, including the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868. These are nation to nation agreements that recognize our sovereignty, our lands, and our right to live according to our own ways. Upholding these treaty rights is essential to rebuilding our economies, restoring our lands, and protecting our future generations.

We also stand for the protection of our sacred sites and the defense of He Sapa—the Black Hills—from extractive destruction. These lands are not resources to be exploited; they are sacred relatives central to our identity, spirituality, and existence as Lakota people. Protecting He Sapa is inseparable from protecting who we are.

A critical first step is restoring the bison to their ancestral homelands. The bison is a keystone species. They showed us how to live, how to organize, and how to govern ourselves as Lakota people. Bringing them back is not just ecological restoration—it is nation rebuilding.

At the same time, we must rebuild how we live on our lands. By using what is already available to us—clay, lime, and timber—we can create interlocking compressed earth bricks to build climate-resilient homes and community buildings. Homes that reflect our environments, reduce costs, and strengthen our independence. This is about housing that is sustainable, culturally grounded, and built by our own hands.

We must also meet the challenges of climate change head-on. Our lands, waters, and relatives are already feeling its impacts. We need to build our own environmental monitoring infrastructure—led by our Nations—to track changes, protect our ecosystems, and defend our treaty territories with knowledge and data rooted in both science and traditional understanding.

At the same time, we must move toward true energy independence. By developing renewable energy systems on our lands, we can reduce reliance on outside systems, protect our environments, and create sustainable economic opportunities for our people—ensuring resilience for generations to come.

And alongside rebuilding our economies, homes, and infrastructure, we carry a greater vision: the return to our languages and ceremonies. Our languages hold our laws, our knowledge, and our identity. Our ceremonies guide how we live in balance with the world. Revitalizing them is essential to who we are as Nations.

We are asking for your support to begin this work.

We may not solve everything at once—but we can start.

You can help by:
• Sharing this message worldwide
• Supporting our work through donations
• Visiting and spreading our website: www.petaomniciye.org

Together, we can build a global Indigenous, autonomous economy—rooted in our traditions, powered by our people, and sustained for generations to come.

Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ — we are all related.

Indigenous empowerment and Lakota leadership. Learn about Peta Omniciye's mission in the United States.

05/03/2026

What the world is just starting to talk about—“self-sufficiency,” “local economies,” “resilient supply chains”—our Lakota people have never lost.

In our tiwahe (families), we have always made what we needed from the land:
food, shelter, tools, art, clothing.
Not as a trend—but as a way of life.

What outsiders call a “cottage industry,” we know as living economy.

I call it a Tatanka Economy—rooted in Maka Sitomniya:
the land, the ecosystem, the biosphere that sustains us.

This is:
• Indigenous agriculture
• Food sovereignty
• Building homes from the land
• Creating with what is already here

This system is still alive today in our homes, in our families, in our knowledge.

But we have become too dependent on outside supply chains—systems that can break, systems that were never built for us.

The truth is:
We already have what we need to sustain ourselves.

The path forward isn’t starting something new—
it’s strengthening what has always been ours.

Self-sufficient.
Self-sustaining.
Nation to nation.

Our economy didn’t disappear.
It’s still here—waiting for us to fully stand it back up.

05/03/2026

If Canada starts pulling back economically from the U.S., most people won’t notice it in headlines first—they’ll feel it in prices.

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026, Mark Carney made it clear that countries are rethinking dependence and moving toward economic sovereignty.

Here’s what that could mean for everyday Americans:

⛽ Higher gas and diesel prices (Canada is our largest oil supplier)
🏠 Rising home costs (Canadian lumber is a backbone of U.S. housing)
🚗 More expensive vehicles (our auto industries are deeply connected)
⚡ Higher costs for energy and EVs (critical minerals come from Canada)
🌾 Increased food prices (fertilizer and grain supplies matter)

This isn’t about Canada “leaving”—it’s about shifting priorities.

Even small changes in that relationship can ripple through the entire U.S. economy, especially in the Midwest.

The bigger picture?
The global economy is changing from dependence → to sovereignty.

And here’s something worth thinking about:

Indigenous nations have always understood this.

Our economies were never meant to be dependent—they were designed to be sovereign, land-based, and interconnected through our own systems.

As the world shifts, the question isn’t just how countries respond…

It’s whether Indigenous nations will be recognized as the sovereign economic powers we’ve always been.

Nation to nation.

05/03/2026

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026, Mark Carney warned that the global system is breaking apart—and that nations must act with sovereignty, not dependence.

But for Indigenous nations, this isn’t a new realization.

We have always known that sovereignty is not granted—it is inherent.

Long before modern states, our economies were:
• Trade-based across vast regions
• Rooted in land stewardship
• Governed by our own laws and relationships

What Carney describes as a “new global strategy” is something our nations have practiced for generations.

Today, the conversation must shift.

Indigenous economic development is not a program.
It is not DEI.
It is not dependency.

It is nationhood in action.

From land and resources to finance and trade, our economies are expressions of our sovereignty—recognized in law, including Morton v. Mancari, which affirmed that our status is political, not racial.

As the world moves toward regional power, economic resilience, and coalition-building, Indigenous nations are not behind—we are aligned with the future.

The path forward is clear:
• Build our own economic systems
• Strengthen nation-to-nation relationships
• Invest in Indigenous-controlled capital and infrastructure
• Assert our role in shaping regional economies

This is not about inclusion.
This is about recognition.

Nation to nation.

04/21/2026

02/09/2026

Lakota Sovereignty → Federal Control
A Legal and Historical Timeline
Before 1800 – Free & Independent
Lakota governed themselves under Lakota law, kinship, and responsibility to land. Territory was controlled and defended by
Lakota authority.
1823 – Doctrine of Discovery
Johnson v. M’Intosh imposed a European doctrine reducing Indigenous nations to occupants of their own lands without
consent.
1840s–1870s – “Indian Wars”
Settler trespass led to Lakota resistance, later reframed by the United States to justify military occupation.
1851 – Fort Laramie Treaty
Recognized Lakota territory and established peace. No land cession. Treaty became supreme law.
1868 – Fort Laramie Treaty
Established the Great Sioux Reservation. Land cession required consent of three-fourths of adult male citizens.
1871 – End of Treaty-Making
Congress ended treaty-making while retaining existing treaty benefits.
1877 – Black Hills Taken
Congress seized the Black Hills after gold discovery. Later ruled an illegal taking.
1887 – Dawes Act
Communal lands were allotted. Remaining lands declared surplus and opened to non-Indians.
1903 – Plenary Power
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock declared congressional authority to break treaties.
1934 – Indian Reorganization Act
Ended allotment and expanded federal trust control without restoring treaty lands.
1980 – U.S. Admission
Supreme Court confirmed illegal taking of the Black Hills; Lakota refused money settlement.
Today – Trust & Control
Treaties acknowledged but unenforced; federal administration replaces consent.
Core Truth: Lakota sovereignty was never surrendered. Treaties remain valid law.

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12/19/2025

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December 17, 2025

Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council Calls for Abolition of the Mining Act of 1872 and Permanent Protection of He Sápa (Black Hills)

RAPID CITY, SD — Meeting in unity at the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Conference, the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council today adopted a historic resolution calling for the abolition of the General Mining Act of 1872 and the permanent protection of He Sápa (the Black Hills), reaffirming the continuing force of Oceti Sakowin treaty rights and inherent sovereignty.

The resolution declares that the Mining Act of 1872—enacted without the consent of Indigenous Nations—has enabled more than a century of mineral extraction on Oceti Sakowin treaty lands in direct violation of the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868. Mining authorized under the Act has caused lasting damage to sacred sites, water systems, and ecosystems, particularly within He Sápa, the spiritual and cultural heart of the Oceti Sakowin.

“He Sápa is not for sale. It is not a resource colony,” said Phil Two Eagle, CEO of Peta Omniciye, Inc. “It is a sacred place guaranteed to our people by treaty, unlawfully taken and repeatedly exploited. This resolution affirms that laws imposed without our consent have no legitimacy on our treaty lands.”

The resolution calls for the full repeal of the Mining Act of 1872, the immediate cessation of mining permits and claims issued under its authority within Oceti Sakowin treaty territory, and the development of a new legal framework grounded in treaty compliance, Indigenous consent, and environmental protection.

Central to the resolution is the affirmation of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council declared that no mining or mineral exploration may lawfully occur within He Sápa or other Oceti Sakowin lands without such consent.

The Council further reaffirmed that He Sápa was expressly reserved to the Oceti Sakowin under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 and that its seizure following the discovery of gold was illegal—an injustice acknowledged by the United States Supreme Court but never remedied through the return of the land.

“This resolution is about protecting the land, the water, and the future of our people,” Two Eagle added. “We carry a responsibility to the generations yet to come, and that responsibility demands the permanent protection of He Sápa.”

The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council announced it will pursue coordinated advocacy at the tribal, federal, and international levels to advance repeal of the Mining Act of 1872, halt destructive extractive practices, and secure permanent protection for He Sápa.

About the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council

The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council represents the collective treaty interests of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations. Grounded in inherent sovereignty and treaty law, the Council works to protect Oceti Sakowin lands, waters, and responsibilities for present and future generations.

Media Contact:
Phil Two Eagle
CEO, Peta Omniciye, Inc.
P.O. Box 1157
Rosebud, SD 57570
Email: [email protected]