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| Issuer | Free Lakota Bank |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Reference(s) | X#1 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Free Lakota Bank, established by the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, explicitly rejected the Federal Reserve system and issued these rounds as part of a broader assertion of economic autonomy under treaty rights. The X#1 reference places it in Krause's catalog of non-standard monetary issues — a category that itself signals contested legitimacy.
Whether it ever functioned as a genuine medium of exchange within the reservation economy is unclear from surviving documentation.