Here's the explanation: the article asked the Oglala Sioux Tribe about MZC, unfortunately this is NOT THE SAME TRIBE as the Oglala Lakota Tribe. It's like I told you to call Mr. Smyth because he has important information, so you call Mr. Smith and get all up in arms when the guy doesn't know wtf you're talking about. In short, bad journalism. Go figure, it's on a complete shit site.
That is simply not true.
Go to the MazaCoin website:
http://www.mazacoin.org/Click on the Traditional Lakota Nation link, which sends you to:
http://www.oglalalakotanation.org/oln/Home.htmlThis is the organisation that the MazaCoin developers say they are working with.
Click on Govenment, then Executive Committe, which takes you to:
http://www.oglalalakotanation.org/oln/-Executive_Committee.htmlYou will see that the President is Bryan Brewer.
That is the same person the journalist talked to.
If you go to the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations page for the Ogala Sioux Tribe:
http://www.sdtribalrelations.com/oglala.aspxYou will see that Bryan Brewer is the current President, and the 'View the Oglala Sioux Tribe's website' link takes you to:
http://www.oglalalakotanation.org/oln/Home.htmlThe same site as above.
Try doing your own research, rather than just believing anything you read in a tweet.
[And on the
http://www.oglalalakotanation.org/ website they refer to themselves as the Ogala Sioux.]
[For whatever Wikipedia is worth, its entry starts with:The Oglala Lakota
or Oglala Sioux (pronounced [oɡəˈlala], meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language[5]) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people, who along with the Nakota and Dakota, make up the Great Sioux Nation. A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the eighth-largest Native American reservation in the United States. The Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Sioux Tribe (previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota)."]
