Official Website of the Traditional & Spiritual International Government of the
Great Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Nation
A Sovereign Nation International
Re-established at Bear Butte July 14, 1991
This government was formed by descendants of traditionally appointed Dynastic Line of Grand Chiefs of the General Counsel of the Great Lakota Dakota Nakota Nation

Our Mission
Following the footsteps of my Great Grandfather, Chief John Grass, as 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 the remaining peace loving traditional spiritual ways of governance of our Oyate 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. 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…that should also benefit the world at large, one being, the creation of this website…
-Chief Richard Grass
The following photo from late 1800’s of Great Grandfather Charging Bear (John Grass) who was present with his Father at the signing of the Original Ft. Laramie Treaty of September 17, 1851, and was a signer of the Treaty of Fort Laramie, Apr. 29, 1868. More details about the “indian” version of events of those times to be published in a book about John Grass from long held and well documented manuscripts passed down through generations. We hope to see this book widely published as well as update the web pages regarding it soon.



Chief Mato Watapke (Charging Bear) Richard Deo Grass
Richard Deo Grass is blood line descendent of Chief Two Strike, Chief Red Cloud, Chief White Swan, Chief Sitting Bull, Old Chief Frost, Chief White Bird, Crazy Horse, and Great Grandson of Chief Charging Bear – John Grass – Mato Watapke.
As the last standing Traditional Spiritual Dynastic Grand Chief of the Great Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Nation which was re-established 1991 by traditional spiritual Oceti Sakowin at a sacred ceremony at Bear Butte, he directed the forming of this web site and bequeathed and appointed that all his correspondence, the nations’ official seal, and the multiplicity of documents from the many years of work he and the remaining traditional spiritual elders and headmen unitedly accomplished for the LDN nation during his lifetime, were to be published here and carried forward by his sister Bunny Sings Wolf.
Click below to view the Chief Richard Grass Memorial Page.