Sunday, November 25, 2018

BLACKFEET LAND OWNERS LOSE $11.5 BILLION REVENUES IN WALL STREET WATER MARKETING DEAL


BLACKFEET LAND OWNERS LOSE $11.5 BILLION REVENUES IN WALL STREET WATER MARKETING DEAL

As tribal water planner in 1987 I brought Wall Street bankers to the Blackfeet Reservation and the bankers told the tribal council they would invest $50,000,000 in water development funds to bring revenues of $500,000,000 annually to the Blackfeet Tribe and Blackfeet landowners in “Money for Water” deals. There was no financial risk to the tribe because it was an investment, a “guaranteed market.” I also met with state of Montana water attorneys who offered to “settle” Blackfeet water quantification @ one million acre feet of water for the Blackfeet Indians that would have paid Blackfeet landowners a share of $11.5 billion in water leasing revenues in global water markets. The tribal council water compact signed away tribal water rights “forever” on a promise of $479,000,000 of which they got $800,000 and now will have to pay millions of tribal dollars to hire a lobbyist to chase the money. Western states congressmen sit on the committees controlling federal dollars wish to delay Blackfeet compact money until the state and white man drills water well aquifers draining our property. The council lost $11.5 billion dollars of our water lease money in projected revenues offered by the Wall Street firm in 1987. The $500 million dollar Wall Street offer gave us a “valuation theory” for Blackfeet water resources in global water markets probably exceeds a billion dollars per year in today’s water markets. Valuation is an estimation of the worth of our water rights. Wall Street investors agreed with $500 million but none of us know that exact dollar amount but we should find out how much our water is worth before we sign water leases. Tribal council voted blind on the water compact and we voted blindly on the word of blind leaders. The $479,000,000 water compact settlement would not amount to one year of Blackfeet landowner’s water leasing revenues of $500,000,000 on global water markets. What is scary about the water compact is that it turned white landowners loose on the reservation to drill our aquifers like the Starr School Bench which is an ocean of fresh water underlying Indian lands, but white landowners can drill directionally under Blackfeet landowners and drain our aquifers. There is already water well drilling at Kalispell where adjacent landowners to a water marketing business lost in state court to stop the drilling due to a law called “rule of capture.” This law was used to drain a billion dollars of Blackfeet oil reserves. The BIA held up oil drilling until the white’s drained Indian oil fields. Now we are in a position of weakness because we have no funding to drill our own water wells.

The United States Government Climate Change Study confirmed the destruction caused by pollution of the earth atmosphere will result in drought, fires, food shortages, wars, livestock and crop reduction, and most of all drinking water shortages. It means the Blackfeet are sitting on the most valuable mineral on the planet and the cost of water is rising with the droughts. Forest fires will cloud the skies causing crop destruction and breathing problems respiratory illness in lungs. The vision we are living in today is the prophecy of Chief Seattle who foretold of the day the white man would die in his own trash and pollute the planet earth. Blackfeet chiefs told the people to never sell the land or be overrun by border-whites “flooding our reservation.” Chief Rides-At-The-Door testified to Congress the Indians own this reservation by the allotment, and deserve justice and the right to use our property as we wish, and asked why the white man has all the “say” of what happens on our reservation and why do we not have the same rights as every American. We have to move fast to claim our water rights for business and economic purposes for which the reservation was enacted-to make the Blackfoot Indians self-sufficient in the new economy. Everything of value has been stolen from the Blackfeet landowners.

BLACKFEET WATER RIGHTS OWNERS NEED NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR PROTECTION The remaining question is-do we trust the Bureau of Indian Affairs to negotiate water leases of allotted lands? The other big issue is Bureau of Indian Affairs administration, operations, methods, and trusteeship of individual trust lands and water rights. At present, the Blackfeet Agency land lease program returns only one-half of one percent of revenues produced on allotted lands. Blackfeet/Cree lessees sub-lease to white ranchers and they share 99.5 % of our lease money. Blackfeet/Cree lessees are now claiming ownership of water rights on leased land owned by Blackfeet allottees and they want trust landowners to relinquish shares of ownership to the tribe. They want to claim your water rights and collect water lease payments amounting to millions of dollars per year. In the water compact meeting at the tribal office with state and federal government officials present the tribal lawyer yelled at us landowners, “YOU PEOPLE DON’T OWN ANY WATER RIGHTS!” President Teddy Roosevelt issued the Proclamation of 1903 that preserved Blackfeet water rights over Montana settlers and he vetoed Montana Senator Walsh’s “Surplus Land” bill to open up the reservation to white settlement. The tribal leadership at the time was led by Chief Wolf Plume, who sold his cattle to get money to travel to Washington D.C. to present the starvation of Blackfeet allottees to sell their land to whites. Tribal lawyer and interpreter Bob Hamilton spent months in Washington D.C. on a three and a half week train ride from Browning to get in line with other tribes to present his case before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. These men gave of their personal property and risked their lives to end the starvation of over 200 Blackfeet people of all ages and slow deaths by throwing reluctant Indians into the unheated agency jail in forty degree below zero weather to freeze to death and claim his estate by forgery in the BIA  and in Glacier County Court Records as legal transactions or better known as “Patent-In-Fee” lands owned by border-whites within the borders of the reservation. That is how the white man got on the reservation by deaths and forgeries of Blackfeet allottee trust land titles approved “forced fee patents.”

1934 INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT ALLOW BLACKFEET COOPERATIVES TO OPERATE PROGRAMS

The role of the Non-Governmental Organization [N.G.O.] is to interface with official government bureaucracy on methods of business management of 3,600 individual allotments of Blackfeet land with original water rights. Water District Cooperatives authorized by the Indian Reorganization Act, protected under the tribal constitution, and elected by landowners will negotiate water leases under “Blackfeet Water Owners District Cooperatives” that will organize landowners in the Starr School Bench Aquifer, Two Medicine, Badger, Cut Bank Creek and other groundwater sources. We lack district organizers. Never believe the BIA or tribal council who will tell you no water is under your land it is the tribe’s water, it is our water guaranteed in treaty and laws. Chief Wolf Plume and Bob Hamilton saved our reservation because they gave their all for the people and for independence as Bob Hamilton told the chiefs from Washington D.C. after they won the judgment to keep the reservation closed to white settlement, You men who have stood by the right and are not under the control of the agent will be remembered as tribal heroes. Chief Wolf Plume died broke of money as did all of the patriots but in the end they saved our reservation from being overrun by border whites. We still have a chance of success if we can organize chapters and cooperatives together with people and to research the water issues and find out the worth of our water rights. We are blindfolded and our hands tied behind our backs and a tape over our mouths and to be thrown in the river like a bag of kittens. Community leaders are needed.  


Friday, December 15, 2017

“THE SACRED BUFFALO VISION” BLACKFEET HISTORY BOOK EXPOSES ECONOMIC-APARTHEID SYSTEMS “


“THE SACRED BUFFALO VISION” BLACKFEET HISTORY BOOK EXPOSES ECONOMIC-APARTHEID SYSTEMS “The Sacred Buffalo Vision” @Amazon.Com: “The [savage Indian] curriculum problem is one that has affected white schools as well as reservation schools. It becomes even more accentuated on an Indian reservation where there is less relatedness between the usual subjects of instruction and Indian cultural background. While a primer dealing with the “savagery” [a man of brutal cruelty] of the Indian may have little or no effect on the culture of a white community, it has all kinds of psychological reverberations on an Indian reservation, where most of the children are still linked psychologically with the old Indian culture. Under such conditions, this type of public instruction becomes more than absurd.” Most Indians do not know tribal political/economic history because it is not taught in public schools or colleges. My history book exposed over a century of an “underground economy” operating “extra-legally” on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. During the conquest of Blackfeet Country by trespassing border-whites a campaign of physical genocide killed thousands of Indians, but the “Baker Massacre” caused a national protest against the army killing whole Indian villages. The Montana Legislature created an economic-apartheid-structure, called a “reservation/county” jurisdiction enacted by the Montana Legislature on stolen Indian trust lands in 1919. My research uncovered a “political-mercantile” system of “Slow Death Measures” genocide in Montana that used mass starvation and institutional violence by state and federal officials on the Blackfeet Indians to force Indian landowners to give up trust lands [non-taxable].   

PHYSICAL GENOCIDES AND MASSACRES OF BLACKFEET TREATY INDIANS BY MONTANA CONFEDERATES [Excerpt, The Sacred Buffalo Vision] United States Indian Service Report of Blackfeet Agent, Henry Reed, 1862, “On Tuesday we distributed to the Bloods, and on Wednesday to the Blackfeet, all in the same manner, apparently to their great satisfaction. It was certainly gratifying to see the Indians conduct themselves with so much decorum during the time of their visit and the [1855 Treaty] Payment, especially as there were so many of them together, and so many conflicting interests; and then during the stay of a week to have nothing occur but what would accord with the best organized society was certainly surprising as well as highly gratifying. There are many whites who are here and through the mountains because they cannot be tolerated in any civilized society. They need care and attention. We refer especially to the introduction and sale of liquor. In the selection of the force we have at the farm, we have tried to get such as would present a proper example to the Indians of morals, industry, and economy, so that example and precept might go together in the lesson given to the Indians at all times.” Monthly Report of George B. Wright, United States Indian Agent, 1866, “Soon after my arrival at Fort Benton and on the 18th day of September, 1866, there was seen on the opposite bank of the Missouri River a party of eleven Piegan Indians [Blackfeet] desirous of crossing over to the Benton side, whereupon a body of some twenty whites [confederate soldiers], residents of Fort Benton, and returning [trespassing confederate gold] miners to the States, ran up to the bend in the river and as the Indians touched the shore, these men fired into them, wounding some and killing six. The balance of the Indians, with the wounded, ran back to the opposite shore, leaving the dead ones in the hands of the whites, who immediately scalped them. On the following day, another party of Indians was seen some six miles above Fort Benton, on that side of the river, whereupon the same class of persons who killed the abovementioned Indians started on horseback after them, they overtook the Indians and fired into them, killing six, bringing the Indian scalps into the town. I endeavored to secure the scalps but was refused. A few of the Chiefs of the Blackfeet and Bloods called recently to see me, and expressed a strong desire to remain in peace their own nation and the white race. They are, however, strongly opposed to visiting Fort Benton to see their agent, owing to the heavy white settlement around the town; and as there has been no provision made by the late Congress for a new treaty on the part of the government for them, by reason of treaty of the Judith river of 1855 expiring by limitation, and the non-satisfaction of the treaty of 1865. It is well known that in thickly settled countries the citizens thereof carry with them more or less hostility towards the Indians, and spare no efforts when success seems certain, in obliterating them from existence. Therefore, is it not better that by removal of this agency further back into the interior there could be effected a more permanent peace in the country and a more general safety to both races? It might be argued that if there should be a repetition of the Indian wars, the race would then be, not only in name but in fact, exterminated, and there would be no further use for agents or agency buildings. This theory may be, in contemplation, pleasant, yet practically it would meet with embarrassments, for experience has thus far proven, unless there be a general uprising of the people, sanctioned by the United States Congress, the Indian would maintain his existence, and the tradition of his death in Montana Territory would seem an absurdity. This government is too humane to annihilate those who, from wrongs inflicted upon them, justly punished the white aggressor, and the Old World has yet to be taught that the United States, having purchased land by treaty, would possess and occupy other lands through force and power. The genius of our institutions, although differing with many minds regarding territorial occupancy, agrees in the main that the Indian should be removed from encroachments of the white race and honestly compensated for the relinquishment of their lands. By their removal there would be no occasion for hostility; each party could attend to their own business, for history and experience in this Territory have proven that the introduction of so many emigrants, having such a diversity of character and hatred toward the Indians, having rendered travel unsafe, and the highways of today are attractively different from those of yesterday. In this separation that I so earnestly urge (between white and Indian races) the government would be benefitted and all mankind could move on without meeting in any danger. There are many of the Indians who are anxious to become the rivals of the white race, and will, as soon as suitable grounds are established for them, adopt the order of civilization, and will equalize their ability for their own interests as well as that of the government. I have just arrived home from the Flathead Agency, Montana Territory, while on my trip I was in the camps of the Kootenay, Pen d’Orielle, Flathead, Piegan (Blackfeet), Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Ree and Crow, Mandan, and Arickaree tribes of Indians. I packed across the country from Hell Gate to Fort Benton, and thence took steamer for St. Louis, and did not see a hostile Indian during the entire trip. I saw and conversed with many persons who have been among the above-named tribes during the last six months and know their feelings toward the government and the whites, and am satisfied beyond a doubt that the Indians of Montana generally, and from those residing along the Missouri River, were never behaving better than at present, than they have been for some time past, (say seven to nine months) and they are as a general thing peaceably disposed toward our government. Governor Meagher’s Indian War in Montana is the biggest humbug of the age, got up to advance his political interest, and to enable a lot of bummers who surround and hang on to him to make a big raid on the United States treasury. Parties (and hundreds of them) are traveling from Helena to Fort Benton, some mounted, some on foot, and some in wagons, in squads of two, four, six and eight persons-some armed, and some unarmed. None appeared to apprehend any more danger from hostile Indians than they would in Washington City. The boat I came down the river on (the Yorktown) did not even load the guns furnished them by the War Department during the round trip, but allowed Indians to come on board the boat when they wished to do so, (that is when we were lying to). Neither did I hear of a single boat that had been disturbed by Indians on the Missouri river, the many statements made in newspapers notwithstanding. I am satisfied no trouble need be apprehended from the above-named tribes, unless the same is brought on by acts of General Meagher and the troops under his orders.” Colonel Sully, Army Superintendent of Indian Affairs wrote, “I intend to do all I can to arrest some of the citizens, who about ten days ago, committed the cowardly murder of a harmless old man and a boy about fourteen years old, at Fort Benton. They were Piegans (a part of the Blackfeet tribe). These Indians were shot in broad daylight in the streets of the town. I think I can arrest the [confederate] murderers, but I doubt very much if I can convict them in any [confederate] court. Nothing can be done to insure the peace and order till there is a military force here strong enough to clear out the roughs and whiskey sellers in the country, but I will do all I can, with the limited means in my power to prevent a war or any serious difficulties between the whites and the Indians.” The “Baker Massacre” of 174 old men, women, children and infants of Piegans, in the winter camp of Chief Heavy Runners Band, attacked while the warriors were away on a winter buffalo hunt to feed the starving camp, while another small pox outbreak found many Indians dying in their beds covered with scabs, pus, and boils, slowly dying from the dreaded disease. Drunken army troops fired into Heavy Runner’s camp from a ridge and collapsed lodge poles upon camp fires on dying Indians and burned them alive in their beds or chased survivors through brush and raped the women and girls before shooting them in the skull. The Inspector General Report said the attack was triggered by false reports of Blackfeet Depredations, [murders and horse stealing] officially submitted by Montana Governor/General Meagher, Montana Militia and U.S. Army Generals at Fort Shaw to General Sheridan for final approval, based on false reports of attacks by the “Black-Feet Indians” upon Montana citizens. Montana Militia troops looted 1,400 horses and 7,800 buffalo robes from Chief Heavy Runner’s camp and raped and murdered many little girls and women.

“SLOW-DEATH MEASURES” GENOCIDE TRIBAL FAMINE DECIMATE THE BLACKFEET POPULATION Inspector C. H. Howard reported Blackfeet Indians starving by 1883, “It was my first experience in witnessing actual starvation; I have never visited an agency where there was so complete destitution. Children and adults are dying for want of proper nourishment when sick. There are thousands of cattle roving over the hills and valleys surrounding the reservation. I have even seen them on land which still remains a part of the domain of this tribe. But does anyone suppose these cattle will be safe in this vicinity while these Indians are starving? At the same time the cowboys do not hesitate to use arms in protecting the cattle? How long will it be before these Indians will begin to retaliate by arms and we will have another Indian war?” Agent Allen wrote, “The rations last for two days barely, the rest of the week the people live on wild berries and air, until Friday evening, when they again flock to the stockade and receive the entrails of the beeves butchered for the next day’s issue. Every part of the refuse is eagerly sought and eaten, and most disgusting contests occur for possession of the entrails except for the paunch and gall which they give to their dogs. Their physical condition is that of a slowly starving people, all of the people being very gaunt and thin, and in some cases shockingly emaciated. Scrofula prevails to a great extent among them aggravated by a lack of nourishment and an unmistakable large number seems to be suffering from consumption. In fact, their systems are so impoverished, that very slight hurts develop into serious complications. The deaths are estimated by agency employees at one per day, but the Department of the Interior is today totally ignorant of the numbers of Indians it pretends to care for and feed. The Indians prefer to dispose of the bodies by tying them in trees or placing them in high places, and the hills and ridges around the agency are dotted with these ghastly objects. The Indians offer themselves to work for food, and where ten are called for, fifty will appear, but while there are many ways the agent could employ them, he is unable to do so because they must be paid in rations and there are none to spare. There are places they tried to plant with axes digging the furrows, but immediately ate the seed potatoes furnished by the agent, and fished out the creeks. They have not a fur or skins for moccasins and there is nothing in their lodges except for the people themselves. In May and June there were times they stripped the trees and ate the inner bark to keep their souls and bodies together. The Indians vital forces are so weakened by the famine of the past three years that the winter now approaching will find them unable to endure its severity and still more dreadful suffering and death will occur.” Jesuit Priest Father Prando wrote, “The injustice of the white man is the cause of suffering among the Indians. The Blackfeet are sunk in want and misery, and in my opinion, they will have trouble getting through the winter without dying of hunger. There was so much talk and so much noise in the newspapers about the deplorable condition of these poor creatures, but till now they received no help. And, this year the effects of the famine are making themselves felt so horribly and the savages are dying rapidly. Indeed, we can say two-thirds of the tribe are diseased now. What a pity it is to see little boys and girls, with their small faces pale and emaciated, with languid eyes, and at an age when they should be happy, experiencing sorrow and consumption.”  Father Constantine Scollen first met the Blackfeet in 1861, and he saw them as a proud, haughty, numerous people, having a regular “politico-religious” organization [Blackfoot Confederacy-Sun Religion]. After 1870, the Blackfeet had lost more than half their population and tribal social organization was in deep decay from constant attacks of massacre, whiskey trade, small-pox, and destruction of tribal buffalo herds. Father Scollen observed, “They have been utterly demoralized as a people, the surviving relatives of the small pox epidemic of 1870 and the survivors of the Baker massacre went more and more for the use of alcohol. They endeavored to drown their grief in the poisonous beverage, sold their robes and horses by the hundreds for it, and now had begun killing one another, so that in a short time they were divided into small parties, afraid to meet on the prairie. Formerly, they had been the most opulent Indians in the country, and now they walked without horses, clothed in rags.” At a council of Blackfeet and Blood tribes of Indians at Blackfeet Agency, April, 1875, an election of Chiefs was held and a code of laws adopted outlawing whiskey in Blackfoot Country, the council opened with prayers and songs to the Divine Father, the Indians all kneeling. Agent John S. Wood called the meeting to order saying, “Before commencing on any great and good work, we have been taught by the word of the Great Spirit to invoke his blessings, and all we said and done would be heard and remembered by him, and we would be held accountable. If we did not intend living up to our pledges, we had better not make them. For many years you have been without unity, without a Head Chief, and without laws, roaming over the prairies in small, unfriendly, if not hostile bands, killing each other under the influence of whiskey. During the last year, you have killed one hundred and thirty one of your own people through whiskey. I want you to elect a Head Chief who does not drink whiskey and who will care for and control his people.” Little Plume was elected Head Chief and Generous Woman and White Calf elected Subordinate Chiefs. In 1886, United States Indian Treaty Commissioners arrived on the Blackfeet Reservation in forty degree below zero weather in the winter to treat with Blackfeet Chiefs, discussed the starving condition of Blackfeet Indians, stayed for a week and negotiated the purchase of the Sweet Grass Hills Country.  Congress Ratified the Blackfeet Land Cession in the 1887 Agreement, ending tribal famine by ceding 17,000,000 acres of prime tribal grazing lands to the United States and received payment of $1.5 million over ten years to be paid in annual installments of $150,000 to purchase cattle, supplies, rations, equipment and other needful things to improve their property by building homes and barns, fences and pastures, to establish a tribal cattle industry for self-support. Blackfeet cattle ranchers developed a tribal cattle industry by 1890 with 500 tribal brands, 25,000 head of cattle, shipping steers to Chicago Stockyards, to end tribal famine.

“SOMMATTSSIIPIKOAN” CLASS OF LYING, CHEATING, CROOKED, CLEVER DOUBLE-DEALING WHITE MEN  Blackfeet Agent George Steell served his first term of office as Blackfeet Agent in 1890-1893. The agency physician, Dr. Jenkins, certified Steell to be a confirmed narcotics addict, a “Morphine eater” in Dr. Jenkins words. Dr. Jenkins said Steell never did his paperwork without one-half gram to a full gram of Morphine to ease his rheumatic bones, such ills demanded daily injections of the drug. Steell became very angry at Dr. Jenkins for withholding the drug; he was determined to be high all the time. Dr. Jenkins reported Steell “needed the morphine as a drunkard needs whiskey.” Blackfeet Chiefs complained Agent Steell would only talk to them through a hole cut in his office door while they sat in an outer office when he was “riding the dragon.” His haggard tortured face appeared in the peep hole and his dry lizard’s voice croaked, “go away.” Agent Steell grazed two hundred head of cattle on his ranch on the border of the reservation until he was replaced in 1893, and then he scattered the Indian’s cattle herds toward his ranch on Birch Creek, where 25,000 head of Blackfeet cattle were “rustled” by white ranchers. Blackfeet Agency, Chief Clerk, E.J. Garrett wrote James J, Hill, Owner of the Great Northern Railway, about opening up the “mineral strip” where it was thought gold was to be found in the mountainous portion of the reservation; “What we shall want, when the time is ripe, is the opening of the mountain country west of north and south line, drawn, say, through Midvale to the British boundary. Of course, they will make a strong kick against giving up the mountain country, but I do not think it will be such a difficult matter if the right commissioners are selected to treat with them. We will depend on your aid, and will probably write you further.” Montana Territory Governor Martin Magginnis requested Blackfeet deportation to Canada, “The Blackfeet will be more difficult to deal with-all their blood and kindred are in the British America, where they really belong themselves. I have the belief that if intelligently approached they would consent to a consolidation with some of the other tribes, or if they desired to be consolidated with their kindred, whom the authorities have now moved north from the boundary line, with the best results, perhaps it might be made a matter of international arrangement; if carried out it would afford the most satisfactory solution of the matter of this tribe and greatly reduce the amount of annual appropriations for their support.”  Former agent Mark Baldwin, prospecting on the reservation, wrote Hill about a coal field that might be of interest to his railroad, it was located on the reservation, a problem to be solved by another tribal land cession. Frontier pimp, trading store owner, S.P. Horr, was prostituting “squaws” in his store at night, paying them in food to feed their hungry children. The agent inquired into “Horr’s Habits” and found he was “making a brothel of the store at night.” Dr. Hughey, being very drunk, was performing an operation, hacking away at a struggling boy’s hand. The boy was rescued and the agent had his hand dressed. Dr. Hughey was quite drunk outside the stockade amongst the Indians, who were making jeering remarks on his condition, but with the help of the clerk he was brought inside and confined to his room. The next night an Indian woman was concealed in Dr. Hughey’s room, her husband and father came over the pickets, the gate being closed and noisily using threats demanded her. She had been hurried from the doctor’s room on the first alarm, but was taken from her hiding place and given to her husband.  Inspector Gould wrote, “These Indians are worse off than convicts sentenced to a penitentiary with a corrupt warden, but these Indians are not felons either. Their case is hard. The short years, during which Congress has provided ample means for their equipment and training is fast passing. They know it. They feel that they are not sliding but being pushed towards a pit of helplessness. Their revenues are stolen, their rights are insolently disregarded, and even their feelings are needlessly wronged. And, Secretary [of the Interior] Vilas is personally responsible for this corruption and misrule.”  Chief White Calf said, “If he should remain, before that time has elapsed, he will steal us blind, and starve us to death.” Old Eagle Flag said, “This is the best reservation of all and yet the Indians here are the poorest of all.” Senator Lane of Oregon, member of the Senate Commission To Investigate Indian Affairs wrote in 1915: “I was informed by these Indians that they are being starved in order to compel them to consent to the sale of their irrigable lands under the reclamation project and newly discovered oil fields in the northeast portion of the reservation, and to keep from starving they had killed and eaten all the prairie dogs and skunks which had formerly had their habitat thereabout. A few of the Blackfeet ranchers have small herds of cattle, but these are diminishing rapidly for the reason that they are killing them off to feed their starving neighbors, it being the custom with them to divide their food to the last mouthful with their hungry neighbors. The result of this generous and kindly conduct on their part, I was informed, has been that the Blackfeet Indians, some of whom had fine cattle herds, are now without any, and are in their turn in the bread line, life eked out by scanty rations issued by the government. The effects of a starvation diet and the fact that they have been starved in the past and are starving now, has been called to the attention of the Commission To Investigate Indian Affairs, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Secretary of the Interior and it can be established beyond a question of doubt to any fair-minded person that starvation is the primary though indirect cause of many deaths.”

 “SLOW-DEATH MEASURES” CORPORATE GENOCIDE TO MURDER INDIANS BY DISEASE AND POVERTY  The United States Congress gave 400,000,000 acres of “free- land” to the Great Northern Railway as it chugged across America, but it wasn’t enough to sate James J. Hill’s “corporate greed” for more money and property. The railroad reached Blackfoot Country in 1890, spewing small pox and other diseases that killed many Indians, but considering what was to come, they might be the lucky ones. In 1912-1922, hundreds of individual Blackfeet landowners were systematically tortured and murdered by “Deliberate Conspiracy” discovered by senate investigator Walter W. Liggett, designed to “defraud the Indians of their land and money.” The government agent put the dependent Indians on a starvation diet to force signatures on titles to Indian land, inflicting death on stubborn Indians by malnutrition related diseases caused by poor diets. Blackfeet landowners were tossed in the unheated agency jail by agency police in 40 degree below zero weather to die of “exposure”, the county attorney and Indian agents “framed” innocent Blackfeet landowners to the state penitentiary on false criminal charges, county judges “committed” stubborn landowners to the state insane asylum, while the agent appointed the county attorney as “guardian” of the Indian’s estate and sold their land to white men while the Indian landowners were locked away. Blackfeet Superintendent Arthur McFatridge traveled to the Montana Penitentiary and paid the warden to release the most violent and “brutal” convict to his custody, and brought him back to the reservation, made him the agency jailer, and gave him Indian land and a salary.     BLACKFEET “DOUGHBOYS” FOUGHT ON THE FIELDS OF FRANCE, BUT STARVED UPON RETURN HOME President Joseph K. Dixon of the National Indian Memorial Association protested starving conditions of Blackfeet veterans in 1921 in a letter to General Pershing, “The Report of Senator Lane dated January 9, 1915, describes a shack where the Blackfeet Indians of this bleak region live, where they allege they are being starved to compel them from necessity to consent to sale of their irrigable lands. I want to know, General Pershing, if you are able to find anywhere, in the annals of the deplorable conditions obtaining in starving Russia and hunger-ridden Armenia, anything more heart rending or deplorable than this condition on the Blackfeet Reservation-denied absolutely by Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane, and why it is and how it is that this nation will pour out its treasures of food and clothing and sympathy on the children of foreign lands while they leave destitute and dying Indians under the control of a merciless bureaucracy. 150 Blackfeet Indians fought in World War One on the Fields of France, and only about twenty came back, and many of them wounded; that these Indian veterans are now dying by the roadside; and so are many of their other tribal members, from sheer hunger; that the tribe is being decimated by the pangs of hunger; that their hunting grounds have been pre-empted and their land filched and that many of them literally starved to death last winter, and that hundreds of them will be in serious want again this year. Please use your influence and great heart to strike a blow that will rouse the people to a realization of the horrors that exist at their own door, and that the spirit of mercy and of good-will clustering about the manger and cradle in Bethlehem will bring gifts of food and clothing to these dependent, oppressed and damaged Indians. Parents, old and blind, who lived to rear boys whom they sent to fight under your swords in France, are likewise wounded, helpless and suffering. This statement reached the eye of Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior and he immediately protested, going so far as to send a special messenger to New York, stating I am “abusing” the United States Government. Not many weeks later the Women’s Club of San Francisco wrote a letter to Senator W.P. Dillingham of Vermont, detailing the awful conditions obtaining on the Blackfeet Reservation. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs sent his reply that, “No reports have been received by me of Indians starving to death under the jurisdiction of the federal government or suffering from want of food.”  James Willard Schultz wrote, “Yesterday, Many Guns, Dog Gun, and many others came to see me and said they were so hungry they just had to ask for help. They ask why the Government doesn’t send the troops to kill them off and put them out of their misery. An old woman came to see me, walking all the way from the forks of the Two Medicine River. She was in rags and starving. I gave her a meal and then bought flour, sugar, coffee, and meat for her, and she was so affected by this, she broke down and cried. I tell you, by God, that it makes me mad all the time to see the conditions these Indians are in! Many of them are plumb out of food and have no horses or anything. Tuberculosis is rapidly killing off the Indians, but it serves well the interests of the big meat trust Swift & Co. and its subsidiary; Portland Land & Cattle Company. By reference to the “big grass country”, the writer means this-The patents which the government issued to the Blackfeet for their allotments of land are rapidly being stolen by whites. The Blackfeet were in a fair way to be self-supporting, with fine herds of cattle, but the commissioner shut off their rations, paid for by tribal land cessions. The agency trader extended credit for food, and they began selling allotments of land to avoid starving to death. The trader at Browning had two hundred and twelve of Blackfeet allotments and the Great Northern Railway was given a lease for the entire St. Mary Valley for ten cents an acre, removing Blackfeet ranchers from their summer pastures. Mrs. Mabel Monroe-Bond was robbed as a teenage girl of her land at St. Mary Village where the eastern entrance to Glacier National Park shares a border with the Blackfeet Reservation, a very valuable piece of real estate that attracted the Great Northern Railway owner James J. Hill as a site for his hotels. The same system of graft was used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs officials issuing forced patents of Indian lands to get Mrs. Monroe-Bond to accept her patent; “Many of us protested against getting our patents, but Horace Wilson, agency superintendent, told us that we had to accept them and no way out. In those days an agent’s word was the law. None of us relished the idea of going to jail, so we grudgingly accepted the patents as we were sent for. Ninety percent of us were totally ignorant regarding land laws, and it was a great calamity for us to have the patents forced on us against our wishes because we sensed our short-comings and were left in the dark concerning the working order of things, until it was too late. It was not long until the taxes began to pile up so high that we could not hope to pay. None of us had jobs and most of us was trying to eke out a scanty existence on our ranches, our cattle was gone, there was no work to be had, all jobs were held by white people. Road work on the reservation and in the Park was done by imported help. We Indians were discriminated against on all sides as far as work was concerned, and still we were expected to pay taxes and keep body and soul together on nothing. And all this time the outside sheep and cattle were quietly grazing on our lands for nothing-ten cents an acre is “nothing” to receive for an acre of pasturage of the finest grazing in the world, and we will call it “nothing” for convenience. Horace Wilson was here about two years, not very long, but before he left we found out to our surprise and grief that he was a dope fiend. We were grieved to know that such a wreck had been appointed to be our guardian. Not so long after he’s gone an article appeared in the Great Falls Tribune, where Horace G. Wilson, formerly of this country, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary in California for the Man-Act. A new man, F.C. Campbell, now came to be our agent. He had no personal bad habits but he was worse, because he was a political grafter and he became involved in Joe Sherburne’s political machine, for Joe Sherburne was secretly running the county and the Indian Office too. Who is Joe Sherburne? He is our agency trader for the last 35 years and owns the First National Bank here, (that explains it). All the money for the Indian Office goes through his bank; and that is how he exerts so much influence over the Office. They are linked up like a log-chain-Joe Sherburne-the Indian Office-sheep and cattle companies-Swift & Armor, and Great Northern Railway. Results they have built up a nice little Tammany Hall Clique at Browning. Graft is a hard thing to prove where members are handy at padding up accounts, but one can always put 2 and 2 together. Sometimes, Joe Sherburne does not even stop to put on a mask. Sheep and cattle companies continued to graze on our land for nothing. Other sheep and cattle operators came in and tried to run the grazing bid up, but the Indian Office closed the bids one day ahead of the scheduled time. The un-favored bidders would arrive just one day too late. Superintendent Campbell inaugurated a policy that he called the Five-Year Program. He tried to make us sheep-minded and encouraged a few of his pets to buy sheep on the Reimbursement Loan Plan; no doubt the sheep companies had some old toothless ewes they wanted to get rid of and he conceived the idea of us buying them. We protested against sheep and said we wanted cattle, but he told us that his program consisted of sheep and milch goats. A nice thing to wish on us old buffalo chasers, just imagine a dignified old former warrior herding sheep and pailing a milch goat, it cannot be done. The Blackfeet temperament does not run that way. Why force a mode of life on him that he despises. He cares nothing for mutton and he would never quit running in the other direction if he saw a sheep tick. He shakes his head, no good for a Blackfeet, too dirty, smell bad, wool full of bugs. He dreams of the old buffalo days but they are gone forever. Cattle satisfy because they are nearly the image of his dear beloved buffalo. They are clean, easily managed and one does not have to stoop to the ways of a buzzard to care for cattle. According to the purposes of the program our resources gradually dwindled away. We could not repair or replace old machinery, our penniless condition prevented us from acquiring new herds of cattle or even one cow, our clothes became so ragged the wind nearly whip us to death whenever we step out into the wind. Many members began to get hungry, credit bills were run at Joe Sherburne’s store and when the bills reach a hundred dollars, Joe Sherburne would own their land by hook or by crook. There, that completes Campbell’s Five-Year-Starvation- Program, it amounts to starve us out, burn us out, kick us out. Most of our land is gone and it will not be long till the [white] “owners” of this reservation will demand us to get out. Where shall we go from here, what can we do? Will it be a wholesale exodus of the Children of the Sun, into the strange land of the white man to stand in bread lines, begging for bread, penniless, homeless, permanent objects of charity. President Roosevelt promised everyone something new, something better, and we have faith in his promises, and faith in those he picks to help him run the government. Give us an agent who has his nest egg somewhere besides Indian reservations, a man with noble purposes, who has some insight, some principles, a teacher who will look after the interests of the ignorant and illiterate ones. Some of us can read and write but legal jargon goes way over our heads and we cannot hire lawyers to untangle such mystic wording. Give us a chance to buy cattle on the long term loan plan, say ten years at not more than 5% interest, 3 to 5 head of cows to each family is enough, with restrictions on sale of young female stock, a dual purpose cow like the milking short horn would be the best because its ruggedness could stand our harsh climate. This would give us a chance to get on our feet, to use the grazing for our own benefit, or raise the grazing rent on sheep and raise the price of hay for sale, to give us a chance to live.”

Copyright by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau, Blackfeet Treaty Indians: [Story To Be Continued ].

                      

Sunday, December 3, 2017

ECONOMIC-APARTHEID SYSTEM ORIGINS ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS SPREADING TO ALL AMERICANS


ECONOMIC-APARTHEID SYSTEM ORIGINS ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS SPREADING TO ALL AMERICANS

               American Republic founder Ben Franklin’s maxim, “Nothing but money is sweeter than honey” expressed his mental disease of greed by saying, “Rum may be the appointed means of Providence to extirpate the savages; it has already annihilated all of the coastal tribes.” My tribe, the Blackfeet Indians were among the last to experience attempts at “extermination” because we are the most northern tribe in the lower 48, and known for defending our territory against white encroachment. The first white men to reach Blackfoot Country in great numbers were confederate soldiers and confederate Texas cattle kings by 1863. These Montana confederates told United States Indian Agent George B. Wright, they “did not hold with the treaty” and “did not care for U.S. law and would do as they pleased in Montana.” In just 30 years from 1863 to 1890 the Blackfeet population was “exterminated” by confederates from a tribe of 7,800 in 1863 to just 1,811 Blackfeet Indians left alive by 1890. “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” maxim by white supremacists and taking Indian property was considered to be patriotic acts. Starvation was the operative policy of the American government. Thievery of Indian treaty money and food supplies promised in massive tribal land cessions to the United States fueled economic growth in frontier Montana Territory. Discovery of gold in tribal lands caused further land cessions by confederate gold miners trespassing  on tribal gold fields and attacks by Union Army soldiers resulted in massacre of Indian women and children. By 1890, corporations reached the Blackfeet Indian Reservation such as the Great Northern Railway owners James J. Hill and his son Louis, who were given 400 million acres of America and who would rob Blackfeet money and lands from the 1855 Treaty, to robbing the Blackfeet war veterans lands while they were in Europe fighting for America in World War One and World War Two. Blackfeet veterans returned home to find their parents being starved by the United States Indian Service and state of Montana citizens to force signatures on land titles. The state of Montana, Glacier Park, Lewis & Clark National Forest and millions of acres of private property now owned by white ranchers & farmers were created from Blackfoot Confederacy lands from 1855 to the last agreement in 1896. None of the treaties or agreements have been upheld, resulting in tribal poverty since 1863. “Slow-Death Measures” genocide, defined by the United Nations in 1948 as; “Subjecting a people to conditions of life which, owing to lack of proper housing, clothing, food, hygiene, and medical care are likely to result in debilitation and [early] death of individuals; deprivation of the means of livelihood, by confiscation, looting, curtailment of work, and denial of housing and of supplies otherwise available to the other inhabitants of the territory concerned.” In 1984, the president of white apartheid South Africa and president of Communist Russia accused President Reagan of economic-apartheid on Indian Reservations in America. They were comparing the political anomaly of “reservation/county”  state jurisdiction on Indian reservations [stolen Indian trust lands [non-taxable] owned by individual Indians and managed under a federal government trusteeship], to black townships in South Africa. These Indian land claims are known as “forced fee patents” claims whereby white men filed liens and tax deeds against illiterate Indian land owners in state courts while United States Indian Agents forged thousands of Indian signatures on applications for patent in fees. That is how the white man got on the Indian reservations, by forgery. The book, “TITANIC, End Of A Dream”, by Wyn Craig Wade, describes political powers of the super rich, “The pleasures of the Gilded Age existed for the very few. They rested top heavy on a social structure ready to crumble. Luxury and excess were justified on assumptions of limitlessness, both in fuel and in human suffering. This wasn’t fulfillment, but the illusion of fulfillment wrought by the oppression of the lower echelons of society whose labor materialized it. Nostalgic glorifications of the Age of Security and Splendor automatically condone its grave social injustices; and responsibility for these conditions has yet to be owned completely by Anglo-Americans in the late twentieth century. Although the organization of society is beginning to look more equitable, what we have truly managed to redress is only the tip of the iceberg. As long as this self-same Hubris is with us, the Titanic will continue to be not just a haunting memory of the recurrent past but a portent of things to come: A Western apocalypse, perhaps, wherein the world, as western man has known and shaped it, is undermined from within, not overcome from without; and ends not in holocaust but with a quiet slip into oblivion. What is really alarming, however, is how much these pitfalls still typify the Western-especially English-speaking-world of today in the Age of Anxiety.” Author Ruth Shinsel, wrote an article in Mankind Magazine, “The Knights of the Golden Circle had, at first, been organized to uphold the ideal of a great golden empire. An aristocracy, a circle of noblemen, would hold perpetual titles to large plantations and numerous slaves. An expanding sphere reaching from the Demerara and the Amazon, throughout the torrid and the more temperate zones of the Americas would be exploited. In the eyes of these feudal-minded knights, all laborers, black, brown, red, yellow and white, were considered mudsills of society. Improvident, poverty-stricken and vicious, laborers would be far less vicious if tenderly cared for by benevolent masters. Considering free society a failure, they considered all slavery, “a positive good.” Mr. Lincoln perceived what he considered to be a “dangerous degeneracy.” Lincoln said, “When we were the political slaves of King George and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that ‘All Men Are Created Equal’ a self-evident truth; but now that we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves,, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim, a self-evident lie.”  President Lincoln feared the next threat to the union was the corporations bribing members of Congress to pass favorable legislation for corporate enrichment at the cost of all Americans and the rich stirring up race hate against black Americans to cover up corporate greed and their control of Congress, thereby splitting the people against itself, as a general poverty spreads across the nation.  Mr. Lincoln warned us about President Trump’s cabinet oligarchs and the tax bill before Congress that further enriches the rich one percent who practically owns America by owning our political body. President Trump openly violates federal laws that prohibit accepting gifts, bribes, or cash from foreign nations or individuals while in office. The Russian “mole” is in the White House, compromised by Putin; it means that a “communist” controls the American President. President Trump’s Executive Branch Oligarchy and Congressional Republicans are the “dangerous degeneracy” operating in plain sight to destroy the American Republic and turn the United States into a Republican Oligarchy. I once asked Blackfeet World War Two veterans why they fought for the United States after all the grievances inflicted upon the Indians; they said the army recruiters told them Hitler was going to enslave all white Americans in territories and he was going to murder all Indians and blacks, so they signed up! It is a similar situation today, do we choose corporate serfdom as our children’s future under corporate rule over American government, or do we join together as “Free Americans” to fight to save that which all of our forefathers fought for and died-personal freedom and prosperity in the United States of America! The “Sacred Buffalo Vision” available @ Amazon.Com.is a political/economic history of the Blackfeet Tribe, that turned out to be a history of “extermination” of the Blackfeet by “Slow Death Measures” genocide that reduces the targeted group to poverty and kills “slowly” by the epidemic of diseases. The Republican tax bill and end of “Obama-care” is slow-deaths of millions of Americans by the Republican/Corporate Axis. 

Monday, November 27, 2017

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S “INSTIUTUTIONAL RACISM” PROBLEMATIC IN U. S. GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY


PRESIDENT TRUMP’S “INSTIUTUTIONAL RACISM” PROBLEMATIC IN U. S. GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY

               IN 1974, I was hired by the Department of Health & Human Services by Regional Administrator Charles Goady, who is an African-American, and Republican, “To End Institutional Racism against Native Americans in Departmental Programs.” That was my job description! I was attached to the regional administrator’s office as a Special Assistant for Native American Affairs, therefore I had the power to carry out my duties as assigned, but there was no game plan to follow because I was the first Native American to hold the position. Today, thanks to Charles Goady, there are Native American “desks” in all ten regions of the country created by the Civil Service Commission. We made history for the Indians and I put the newly created position to good use. In San Francisco, Region Nine, I helped Indian tribes to understand their rights to access federal programs, and when states refused to serve Indians, I taught them the rules of Equal Opportunity that demand service on the basis of income and need, not on the basis of race. Indian clients were being told to go back to the reservation to get services, which is not only racist, but illegal. I got a few high level department officials fired for racism and I was transferred to Denver, Region Nine, and it was a hotbed of racism against Indians. The first fight I had was with the State of Montana, Director of Social Services, who said in a meeting at the regional office with me present, “We don’t serve Indians off the reservation, they have their own tribal programs on the reservation”. Of course, I was well trained in departmental rules & regulations, so I asked her on what basis the Indians were denied social services available to every other American? Her face got red, and she looked to the regional director for help, but he knew better than to openly support institutional racism in the federal government. I asked her if all “income eligible” clients were served on the basis of poverty or race In Montana? Do only white people get served in Montana? She would not answer, so I told her wherever the Indians roam, they are Americans, and are eligible to be served on the same basis as any others in the United States. The meeting blew up after I got done telling the Montana director a lawsuit was heading her way if Indians were not served on the same basis as whites. Federal dollars not state dollars pay the bills and whoever takes federal dollars also take federal laws, and are subject to federal courts. The regional director called for my firing immediately and I filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Discrimination Complaint. I was being fired for standing up for a minority discriminated against by the Montana Department of Health & Human Services. How could the Indians win under such political powers? I called in all of the Indian grantees and told them the situation and I told them it was up to them whether I filed a class action suit against the state of Montana and the Department of Health & Human Services. The grantees backed me up except for chairman Old Person, who is a BIA operative, stooge, uncle tomahawk, Blackfeet Chief, and sex pervert convicted of incest in traditional court. He was blackmailed by BIA, and is the most hated Indian in the country for giving confidential information to the BIA in the Cobell Case. Mrs. Cobell had to remove him as a co-plaintiff in the Cobell Case class action lawsuit. You never know when your leaders are selling you out! Be careful who you elect June, 2018.  Institutional Racism in Health & Human Services Departmental Programs ended by Federal Government Executive Branch ordering states to begin serving Native Americans on or off the reservation. All of us are “Equal Under The Law.” Blackfeet are served even in Glacier and Pondera County without taking their trust lands because of Charles Goady’s commitment to human rights. I am now 70 years old and I need the health & human services I get in Missoula, it’s a good thing I fought for Indian rights in 1974!

Friday, November 24, 2017

Petition: Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke Investigate BIA Blackfeet Agency, Lease Frauds


PETITION: SECRETARY OF INTERIOR RYAN ZINKE INVESTIGATE BIA BLACKFEET AGENCY, LEASE FRAUDS Economist John Kenneth Galbraith described characteristics of Insular Poverty as “forces common to all members of the community that restrain or prevent participation in economic life at going rates of return.” Blackfeet trust landowners as a group cannot participate in the reservation economy at “going rates of return.” Defrauded by the $5.00 per acre grazing leases issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, federal trustee of Blackfeet allotted lands consisting of 897,000 acres of the best grazing land in the northwest. I calculate the value of BIA $5 per acre lease fee as ½ of one percent of lease revenues going to Blackfeet owners of the trust lands. The remainder of 99 and ½ percent of the lease revenue is robbed by Blackfeet “third-party” leasers of allotted and tribal lands in “collusion” with local BIA officials, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council members, and white ranchers. The factor common to all Blackfeet trust landowners is being cheated by the “cheap lease” policy issued by Blackfeet Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs Superintendent. Economist Galbraith says insular poverty cannot be solved until the “specific frustrations” of the people on the ‘island of poverty” are removed, and then the people can enjoy a general advance of prosperity. Galbraith wrote, “For poverty does survive. In part, it is a physical matter; those afflicted have such limited and insufficient food, such poor clothing, such crowded, cold and dirty shelter that life is painful as well as comparatively brief [slow-death measures genocide]. The people are poverty stricken when their income, even if adequate for survival, falls radically behind that of the [surrounding white] community. They cannot have what the [white] community regards as the bare minimum required for decency; and [the Indians] cannot escape the judgment of the larger [white] community, that they are lazy and indecent. They are degraded, for, in the literal sense, they live outside the grades or categories which the [white] community regards as acceptable [tribal poverty].” Tribal council politicians pilfer federal poverty grants and tribal lease money but do not care about the tribal poor once elected, and they align themselves with crooked BIA officials, and third-party Blackfeet leasers [middlemen] who are the interface “colluding” with white ranchers to cheat trust landowners. Glacier County has 542 farms and 944,486 acres in ranching and farming. Market Value of Products sold with crop and livestock sales of $67,000,000 and Government Payments of $8,000,000 for a total of $75,000,000. BIA Reports show Glacier County ranchers & farmers generate 3 ½ times the amount of neighboring counties because of the cheap leases of Blackfeet allotted lands through the Blackfeet Agency lease program, which BIA employees set lease fees for trust lands @ $5 per acre embezzlements of hundreds of Blackfeet land allotments. The white ranchers and third-party Blackfeet middlemen lease trust lands cheap for $5 per acre & cheat hundreds of Blackfeet trust landowners of their lease money. There are many examples of cheap leases of BIA employees and third-party Blackfeet criminal schemes. The Many Hides Allotment was leased by a Blackfeet tribal member for less than $500 paid to the BIA lease program, and then sub-leased to a white rancher for $20,000, cheating the family of $19,500. Tribal grazing units are leased for $5 per acre and sub-leased for $68,000 to white ranchers through tribal council members land board. The Cobell Case buy-back program is used to get a share of allotted lands and then the tribal council takes control of your family land and leases it to third-party partners for $5 per acre. Our family lands now have tribal shares leaving us open to exploitation by the tribal council. PETITION: WE, BLACKFEET TRUST LANDOWNERS, HEREBY REQUEST SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR RYAN ZINKE, TO INVESTIGATE THE BLACKFEET AGENCY LEASE PROGRAM LOW FEES AS FRAUDS TO DEVALUE BLACKFEET TRUST LANDOWNERS LEASE PAYMENTS TO $5 PER ACRE: Robert J. Juneau Sr.-UO7392.   

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

BLACKFEET HISTORY BOOK EXPOSES AMERICAN GENOCIDES

I am 70 years old, a Blackfoot Indian, author of a Blackfeet history book, "THE SACRED BUFFALO VISION" available on Amazon.Com. White historians may feel ashamed to bring out the comparisons of America to Nazi Germany in terms of genocide and "mass atrocities" but here is my book which details a campaign of Indian extermination in the modern era, 1880's to 1930's for Indian lands opened up by Congress in the 1887 Indian allotment act which divided tribal lands into 400 acre individual allotments to be watched over by federal trustees called the Bureau of Indian Affairs. As the history research reveals, I found both of my great-grandmothers names among the land fraud victims and their status as Eligible Indian Money Damage Claimants since 1912. Moreover, I found a system of Blackfoot "Slow-Death"genocide in 1912-1922, way before Hitler massacred the Jews, so then, Hitler copied the founders in using extermination of a hated minority as the way to attainment of  riches belonging to the intended victim. Indian treaty-making requires a majority of the adult males in the tribe "approval for a tribal land cession."' To take an individual land allotment from an individual Indian landowner, it requires the signature or approval of the individual landowners. What if the Indians do not sign the papers? Thousands of Indian deaths mounted all across the United States upon Congress' approval of the 1887 Indian Allotment Act, which also requires a signature or approval on an application for a fee patent signed by the Indian landowner and the Indian agent, and approval by the Secretary of the Interior, General Land Office of the United States in issuing a fee patent title, and title signed off by the President of the United States. At the same time as the massive murders and land frauds of Indian people were occurring, 1912-1922, powerful "white friends of the Indians" were publishing lurid accounts of starving Indians and robbery of Indian lands, pushing Congress to investigate Indian affairs. My research followed the Congressional Investigations, Hearings, Senate Investigators Report, and testimony of the Indians in Congress and in the courts. It was surprising to learn that our ancestors did a great job in saving our treaty rights if not the land and oil. We are taught in public schools the "savage Indian curriculum." The book is a serious subject, but has comical events, such as when Chicago crime boss Al Capone showed up in Browning, the reservation capital, to set up his own bank to rob Indians along with the government crooks. He liked the beef steaks fattened on the buffalo grasses on the reservation and shipped steaks to his Speakeasy. The Senate Investigator was killed in a Chicago alley when he followed Al Capone back to Chicago. Congress then decided to look elsewhere for crooks. The "Gilded Age" crooks all showed up on the reservation. It is as a rotten a history that you will find in any despotic nation, including ours today. President Trump is following the pattern of the American founders like Benjamin Franklin, who "tweeted" centuries ago, "NOTHING BUT MONEY IS SWEETER THAN HONEY." He thought rum might be the appointed means to kill more Indians, "It has already annihilated all of the coastal tribes." I think the poor in America might need to know that they too are expendable; too costly in the eyes of the Congress and the rich one percent who really runs government. Providence might decide to cut your healthcare next. Take it from one who knows, I have all the reservation diseases and Agent Orange from Vietnam! Please, all of you cold-hearted republicans, most foolish democrats, independents, alienated, impoverished, or incarcerated, buy or steal a book. Blackfoot anthropologist and midnight excavator of ghastly human deeds of rich robber barons. Bob Juneau Sr.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Blackfeet Trust Landowners request Investigation


The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Blackfeet Tribal Business Council land leases defraud individual Indian landowners of the value of allotted grazing and farm lands by approving leases of $5 per acre to Blackfeet leasers; who sub-lease hundreds of trust allotments for hundreds of thousands of dollars to white ranchers. That is why your Individual Indian Money Account is always broke! Your lease money, accrued to your personal property, managed under the trusteeship of the Secretary of the Interior, Rian Zinke, is being diverted by the tribal council and BIA employees to Blackfeet middlemen who sub-lease to white operators and pocket the money your trust allotment earned while the landowner gets $5 per acre lease payment. It is a violation of the constitution and the federal laws protecting Indian property, theft from a tribal organization is a federal felony. It is no wonder we landowners are always broke and the tribal politicians and BIA employees are so rich and fat leasing tribal and allotted lands. Some of these are tribal political families and many are related in the BIA agency and tribal government, but all of them are enrolled Blackfeet Indians subject to tribal and federal laws. There are practically none of the old time Blackfeet ranch families still ranching because they get no support from the BIA or tribal council, who are colluding to enrich themselves and the white man on our tribal and allotted lands. The white man is rich! For instance, Pondera county has 542 farms, and 944,486 acres in farmlands; crop sales of $48,379,000; livestock sales of $26,730,000; and $9,108,000 in federal government agriculture department subsidy payments. TOTAL MARKET VALUE OF PRODUCTS SOLD IN PONDERA COUNTY-$75,108,000. In GLACIER COUNTY there are over 500 farms & ranches, over 900,000 acres of land in farms & ranches; crop & livestock sales of $61,000,000; and over $7,000,000 in federal government subsidy payments to white farmers & ranchers. TOTAL MARKET VALUE OF PRODUCTS SOLD IN GLACIER COUNTY-$67,000,000. The average farmer market value of products sold is $138,576, and each farmer collects an average of government subsidy payments of $23,819. INDIVIDUAL COUNTY FARMER OF PRODUCTS SOLD-$168,385. Glacier County farmers and ranchers profit three and one half times the average of neighboring counties because of its location coincident to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and the cheap leasing of Blackfeet tribal and allotted lands. CROPS AND LIVESTOCK ITEMS SOLD IN GLACIER AND PONDERA COUNTIES: grains, oil seeds, dry beans and peas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, hay, cut Christmas trees, poultry and chickens, cattle and calves, milk and dairy products, hogs and pigs, sheep and goats, horses, burros, mules, aquaculture, animal products, wheat for grain, barley for grain, forage for hay & grasslands, layers, pullets, broilers and meat type chickens, turkeys. A farming colony recently signed a $38,000,000 contract to produce organic “free-range” chicken eggs to a national grocery food chain store. The Blackfeet ranchers and farmers, and dairy producers, are nearly all gone and with them goes our endangered ranch families, and our self-reliant cattle industry, successful by 1893 with over 500 Blackfeet cattle ranchers, 25,000 head of cattle, cash for all needful things, groceries equipment, supplies, rations, and the people were well-fed, well-housed, successful, self-reliant ranch families. The success of the Blackfeet ranchers is recognized in the 1896 Agreement/Article Five, which reserves tribal grazing lands for the exclusive use and occupancy of the Blackfeet Indians. Chief White Calf protested the government making the Blackfeet Reservation into a “white man’s cow pasture.” The lease policy of the BIA and tribal council allows white ranchers & farmers to profit on our trust lands. It is a system of economic apartheid whereby Blackfeet landowners, ranchers, farmers, dairy producers, egg producers etc. are kept out of the ranch and farm economy. I have requested a Secretarial Review of Blackfeet Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs Lease Policy. E-Mail protests to Rian Zinke, Secretary of the Interior.Gov., Request an investigation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Blackfeet Agency, Lease Policy.