WHERE DOES THE BLACKFEET MONEY GO TO?

The tribal council is a white-style political body, but it is less open than the usual city, county, or state government, and way less democratic, resembling a dictatorship in a third-world nation with a third-world economy starving the people. The tribal council has restricted tribal members participating in the process of tribal government even to going out of town to divide up the tribal budget so nobody can see what they are doing with tribal dollars. The result is that we do not know how much tribal money we have or what the tribal council does with tribal dollars. The tribal council has given themselves several raises in salaries and travel accounts in secret sessions, so that we know nothing about tribal finances until they are forced to confess the tribe is near bankrupt or has to pay back several million dollars to federal grant sources because they mismanaged federal grant money. The impasse between the chiefs faction and the chairman's faction brought unnecessary suffering to the people, even to denying the tribal poor their welfare benefits, and that is deliberate neglect of the people and community. It showed the people that the tribal council really doesn't care for the people's welfare or the children's well being. The chief and chairman didn't suffer a whit because they had the money at tribal headquarters and tribal casino to pay for their means while the people lived in their cars to avoid freezing in their homes because they could not pay electric bills. NO HARDSHIP!  signs at tribal headquarters told you what they think of your suffering, get out and stay out! The tribal commodity house was under guard from starving Indians as the council refused even to allow food to be distributed in an emergency. Food trucks from Great Falls and Missoula brought food and winter jackets for the Blackfeet children. The white people cared more for us than our chief and chairman. The tribal council failed in providing food, shelter and clothing for the Blackfeet people, who, by the way, pay their salaries and travel and luxurious lifestyles. By luxury I mean the cost of maintaining the upper class of the tribe, at least until they lose an election, and are provided a $40,000 tribal check for their service when they leave office. The four year terms of the tribal council costs the Blackfeet people $5,840,000 in salaries and travel checks, and the salary increases were voted in secret sessions in council chambers. That is what the tribal council has done with their four year terms of office, voted in a tribal referendum by the Blackfeet people, all on a promise they would do better with longer council terms. It is not a racial comparison of politicians as all races lie and cheat but our boys never go to prison, they just pay back federal grant audit exceptions with tribal dollars. That was done because tribal councilmen jumped out the windows of the tribal office when the FBI Agent showed up to question them. The agent said it was too bad it wasn't the 10th floor and save the cost of a trial, but Chairman Old Person saved the council crooks by testifying in federal court that the Blackfeet Tribe would pay back the missing federal grant money, it's the way we do business, he whined to the judge, and the judge said "I feel sorry for the people you represent." At least before we could vote out the entire tribal council every two years and roll the dice on a new council. Now we have a perpetual thieving bunch of incompetent robbers. Bob Juneau Sr.  

HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS "FILCHED"

The successful land grab and usurpation of Indian property and sovereignty required a little help from above, not "God" but "Congress." The economics and politics of government graft require the active conspiracy of politicians as greed and politics are inseparable. The human parasites who have robbed the Blackfeet Indians since 1863 are called "border-whites" who live on the borders of Indian reservations to prey on the Indians and trespass on Indian lands and then, finally decided, hell, we might as well move in, and robbed the private-property of individual Indian landowners. The border-whites are confederates who settled in Montana but built their plantations on Indian reservations and created a white-apartheid territory called "reservation/county" to give themselves a title to the stolen property of the Indians. The Blackfeet Reservation has 529,000 acres of void Patent-in-Fee lands of border-whites who live in a white apartheid territory called Glacier County, Montana right on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and of course, the crook always takes the best lands and water holes, oil wells, and other treasures owned by Indians. The Crow Tribe has over 600 forced patents of Crow allotted lands amounting to billions of dollars in Crow coal reserves and across the nation a hundred million acres of Indian lands were robbed by border-whites within the reservation borders. The Frontier Montana "Political-Mercantile" system that robbed the Indians is now a national problem with the Congress corrupted by crooked corporate powers, who actually threaten mankind's existence with climate change pollution's caused by the smog-brothers etc. The Wall Street Bankers robbery of millions of Americans retirement funds and gambling losses of loans and mortgages of millions of American property owners reminds me of Montana Territorial Governor Green Clay Smith, who was also appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Congress, gambled away the Indians funds at a Faro Table in a Virginia City gambling den. What could the Indians do about it? What did Congress do to Wall Street Bankers? The Congress of the United States bailed out the bankers, not out of jail, but out of debt caused by greed and government corruption. I think the Indians and the average Americans must be getting a sore asshole from all the screwing done to them by Congress and the smog-brothers. Here on the Blackfeet Reservation we have a tiny population of border-whites who hog the economy and leave the American taxpayers to pick up the bill for treaty violations that brought financial ruin to prosperous Blackfeet cattle ranchers by 1890. It is all stolen by now, and we live in abject poverty while the human parasites in Glacier County live a rich lifestyle like their confederate ancestor's plantation slave owners, but, alas, all we Indians have is a corrupt Congress to look to for justice, kind of like all Americans today. In 1921 when the border-whites were starving the Indians once again the Blackfeet Indians requested the army to just kill them all off immediately to put them out of their misery. We are at that point today as our youth are dying of a diabetes epidemic caused by tribal poverty.That is why we must win our land claims or die! Bob Juneau Sr.  

EXCERPT FROM THE 'SACRED BUFFALO VISION', A BLACKFEET HISTORY BOOK

Chapter on 'Blackfeet Soldiers "Doughboys" Starved", P. 133
 Hart Schultz, son of James Willard Schultz had a Blackfeet mother, Natahki, and was an eyewitness to the genocides of many Blackfeet Indians, as he was in Glacier Park at the time, and wrote his father on the condition of the Indians in letters dated August 17 and 27th, 1921: "Well, the Blackfeet are about finished. Excepting a few old people, they get no rations and the rations that are given out last only three or four days instead of the fourteen days they are supposed to cover. They have no grain crops, very little hay, and the worst is yet to come, the dreaded winter. Yesterday, Many Guns and Dog Gun and others came away up here to see me, and said they were so hungry they had to ask me for help. Have been constantly giving out food and money since I arrived here. They ask why the Government doesn't send the troops to kill them all off, and put them out of their misery? An old woman came up 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 bought flour, coffee, meat and sugar for her and she broke down and cried. I tell you, by God, that it makes me mad all the time to see the condition these Indians are in! Tuberculosis is rapidly killing off the Indians, but it serves well the interests of purpose of those who are after this big-grass country, now practically all taken by the agents of the big-meat trust, Swift & Co. through its subsidiary the Portland Land & Cattle Company. One of the traders at Browning had two hundred and twelve of Blackfeet patents-in-fee to their lands and other traders had many more." The National Indian Memorial Association President Joseph K. Dixon wrote to General Pershing on the Blackfeet soldiers "Doughboys" who were being starved and dying along with their aged parents; "150 Blackfeet Indians fought in World War One on the fields of France, and only 20 of them came back, not one of them sound, 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 preempted [Glacier Park] and their land filched. Please use your influence to strike a blow somewhere, somehow, that will rouse the people to a realization of the horrors that exist at their own door, and that the spirit 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, old and blind, who lived to rear boys whom they sent to fight under your swords in France, and are likewise wounded, helpless, and suffering with their fathers whom they cannot help. God have mercy on us if we do not do something, and do it soon." Alas, we the Blackfeet of today are still fighting for our stolen lands taken by starvation amounting to murder by border-whites living in Glacier County, a white-apartheid government transplanted on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, who have usurped the treaty rights, cattle industry, oil wells and allotted lands of the Blackfeet Indians. Sincerely, Bob Juneau Sr.

CHRISTMAS A "HUM-BUG" FOR THE BLACKFEET INDIANS-$50 PAYMENT AN INSULT

Was it the mean old scrooges, dumb politicians, or just plain old greed that brought financial ruin to the tribe, or maybe it was the $2,000,000 race track, $7,000,000 casino in a cornfield, or 85 room luxury hotel in Browning, where the winos and bums run off any customers. No, it wasn't just those tribal council disasters, they had help with the "casino council" chairman Earl Old Person, who set up his tribal office in the log house given him by the tribe to go along with his house on government square, or the sordid history of his rule for 30 years when the tribe sank under a mountain of debt and slothful work record as chairman. Shakespeare said "The evil that men do. lives after them." We will pay forever for his disasters because the white man is his hero, and he blocked our last chance the Blackfeet had to recover their allotted lands, by doing nothing! The past three years of non-compliance with federal grant funds will mean a lot of hardship and poverty for our children and old folks this winter once again. NO HARDSHIP! is the sign of the times at the tribal office. Old Person told the tribal council that we, the Blackfeet claimants for the forced patents claims are a "bureau problem." I guess if you are a tribal leader who is proud of never going against the "bureau" it is a viable response, but what tribal leader would throw his own people out and welcome the white man to stay on our reservation by blocking our claims with his powers as chairman. The Senate Indian Affairs Committee welcomed us in 1980 to bring our allotted land claims but we needed a tribal council resolution to bring the senators to Browning to hold field hearings and take testimony from the dispossessed heirs of the original Blackfeet Allottees. The dispossessed heirs are this generation of Blackfeet Indians. All of us have a relative who was robbed of their family lands. I get requests from tribal members, descendants, and heirs all the time on the forced patent claims status, and I have to tell them the truth-Earl Old Person killed your claims. The statute of limitations did not run out as our tribal lawyer contends as we got the claims filed in court and in Congress prior to the deadline of December 31, 1982. Tribal political families do not want the senate Indian committee on the reservation. In 2001 we got a tribal resolution passed requesting a senate investigation of our allotted land claims, removal of white-fee land owners on the reservation, and Glacier-Pondera County refund of all taxes to tribal government and $600 million dollars to be paid to tribal heirs of the original allottees plus restoring all trust land titles to the Blackfeet landowners. There is no white man in Glacier or Pondera County that can prove he owns anything on the Blackfeet Reservation. Isn't the claim a better Christmas payment than chump change of $50 and the tribe bankrupt? Do not approve the water compact unless we get our land and money back from border-whites. Bob Juneau Sr.

WHAT DO THE BLACKFEET PEOPLE WANT TO DO WITH THEIR LAND AND WATER?

The border towns of Cut Bank, Valier, Conrad through their Commercial Clubs campaigned in 1913 to force the sale of 156,000 acres of Blackfeet irrigated farm lands and oil fields by starving over 100 Blackfeet Indians to death in the winter of 1913 while the tribal council was trying to get word to Washington that the Blackfeet people were in dire need of food, clothing and shelter. The Great Northern Railway owner James J. Hill had already robbed the Blackfeet of land and timber and was paid $25,000 from tribal funds to build the Blackfeet Highway from East Glacier to St. Mary Village, Now he was taking the oil fields and tourist trade from the Indians while the big meat trust Swift & Armor robbed the Indians land allotments through their subsidiary the Portland Land & Cattle Company. The agent and county government officials combined to issue fee patents which were robbed by white men by the hundreds and Joe Sherburne conspired to bankrupt the Indians of 25,000 head of cattle industry, and rob the "big-grass country" of the Blackfeet Reservation. Hundreds of Indians lost their lands and were broke and landless after being prosperous cattle ranchers in 1890. It was rumored that the senate investigator was killed by Chicago crime boss Al Capone, who had a phony bank in Browning which loaned money to Indians and foreclosed on their cattle herds before they could ship them to market. Every swindler headed to Browning on a "dog-trot", as Mrs. Monroe had said about sheep companies getting ten cent leases. The other ruse of the whites was to influence the federal reclamation service to build large reclamation projects that irrigated Blackfeet lands and transported tribal waters to downstream water users; all done at the expense of the Indians when Charles Davis, Supervisor of Farming for the Indian Bureau reported that after the expenditure of $900,552.26 of tribal land cession funds there was not a single acre of Blackfeet land under cultivation. Chairman Wolf Tail summed up the Government Indian Policy on the Blackfeet Reservation Economy: "The major service the government could perform is to put a stop to the useless expenditures of thousands upon thousands of dollars of our money on the construction by the Reclamation Service of irrigating canals, etc. in the endeavor to make farmers out of a people who have no desire or inclination to become such, who are not fitted for it by nature and who were never consulted about their wishes in the matter, but have always been treated by the government as children, and who had well-defined ideas as to what they wanted or what was good for them." Excerpts from the Sacred Buffalo Vision available on Amazon.Com , Sincerely, Bob Juneau Sr.

"RESERVATION/COUNTY IS A WHITE-APARTHEID TERRITORY"

Did you vote to be a part of Glacier or Pondera County on the Blackfeet Reservation? No! The Blackfeet Indians were not allowed to vote in the election to incorporate the county governments within the reservation in 1919, or hold public office, or to be a state citizen. Oh happy days for the Blackfeet Indians of today, we get to hold office, vote, and even get served in stores in Cut Bank, but does that make up for robbing 529,000 acres of allotted lands, 25,000 head of cattle, oil wells, and businesses that generate an estimated $850 million dollars of the gross reservation product from Glacier Park tourism, cattle industry, crops, oil & gas, and now they want the rest of our water resources worth billions of dollars per year. The truth is the Blackfeet people are the poorest on the reservation despite owning 900,000 acres of allotted and tribal lands. "Education" was the answer our educated leaders said, and it is sadly untrue except for the 8% of the tribe that have college degrees. The civilized Indians are content to run for county government and state political offices, but the money is controlled by the state legislature in Helena, and last term the legislature voted down $164 million in social/welfare funds meant for the poor Indians residing in reservation/counties. The Blackfeet children in public schools suffer a 50% drop out rate, a genuine disaster, doubly so as it is our own Blackfeet/Cree superintendents and school board who still teach the "savage Indian" class in history that glorify the white man. My platform has been to teach the truth to tribal leaders and the school system to stop the psychological damages done to our children by historical lies in school curriculum in Browning Public Schools. We cannot ever win our stolen lands back until we learn our own political history and treaty rights to tax free lands and to be free of white rule on the reservation. The "reservation/county" is a system of internal colonialism whereby a tiny minority of white men can control the majority of Blackfeet Indians and reservation economy and usurp the tribal treaty rights and restricted allotted Indian trust property through state law and county government imposed on our illiterate and incompetent original allottees in 1912-1922. Border-whites are human parasites on the Blackfeet people and reservation economy including robbing the successful, self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry developed by 1890 with 25,000 cattle, 500 Blackfeet ranchers, and shipping steers to Chicago markets. Most of the Indians had cattle and equipment to produce hay for winter feed and for sale to the agency. The people were happy and prosperous until the white man robbed us and stole everything from us, which is the basis of our current land claims. Vote no on the state-tribal water compact until we get our stolen property back and remove the white man from the reservation and regain our tribal sovereignty and allotted land base and cattle industry. Bob Juneau Sr.

BLACKFEET LAND FRAUDS ARE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES COMMITTED BY BORDER-WHITES

Black's Law Dictionary defines conspiracy as "A combination or confederacy between two or more persons, formed for the purpose of committing, by their joint efforts, some unlawful or criminal act or some act, which is lawful in itself, but becomes unlawful when done by the concerted actions of the conspirators, or for the purpose of using criminal or unlawful means to the commission of an act not in itself unlawful." Senate Investigator Walter W. Liggett charged Indian Service Blackfeet superintendents Wilson, McFatridge, and Campbell with conducting a "deliberate conspiracy" to defraud hundreds of Blackfeet Indians of their land allotments by issuing fraudulent Fee Patents to illiterate and incompetent allottees to expose their tax free trust property to Glacier and Pondera County tax liens who issued tax deeds to white men as part of the conspiracy. For their part, the BIA officials issued the fee patents by using a law passed by Congress to issue fee patents upon the request of the Indian allottees. Investigator Liggett found zero applications for fee patents requested by the Indians, therefore the whole procedure was tainted by a criminal conspiracy between white men, the county, and the BIA to defraud the Blackfeet Indians. Blackfeet Chiefs Rides-At-The-Door, Wolf Plume, Young Man Chief and Black Weasel were arrested at the train station by the superintendent and thrown into the agency jail by Joe Brown, agency employee to stop the chiefs from boarding the train to Washington D.C. In 1913 and 1918 the agent was found to be starving the Indians to force them to sign the fee patents, but was unsuccessful despite causing the deaths of 100 Blackfeet people including children from starvation. In 1921 Blackfeet veterans were starved to death with their aged parents after returning from World War One, and in 1944 Chairman Sharp protested Louis Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway who robbed Blackfeet oil fields that have produced over a billion dollars in revenues. In 1983 Chairman Old Person protested the oil thefts and water thefts to the Senate Indian Committee. In 1982, 2001, 2005, and 2007 we brought a delegation to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee under a tribal resolution to protest the thefts of hundreds of Blackfeet allotments which have now reached 529,000 acres owned by white men on the reservation. Glacier and Pondera Counties encroached upon the Blackfeet reservation getting rich on our stolen Blackfeet land allotments as void Patent-in-Fee lands of white men and they have developed an underground economy that usurped the sovereign powers of the Blackfeet Tribe and rustled the successful Blackfeet cattle industry valued around $85,000,000 in sales of livestock and crops generated from stolen Blackfeet allotments. The white men and county governments have an underground economy on the reservation valued @ $850 million dollars from the reservation economy. Vote NO! on the state water compact unless we get our stolen lands returned with an estimated billions of dollars for oil and land revenues stolen from the Indians. Bob Juneau Sr.

WILL THERE BE CHRISTMAS PAYMENTS FOR THE BLACKFEET INDIANS?

The political feud between the Chief Earl Old Person and Chairman Willie Sharp factions of tribal government has been a costly affair for the Blackfeet people. Federal program and contract audits for the past three years had not been done yet as of the tribal elections in July, 2014, which has caused a multi-million dollar debt for the Blackfeet people to pay off with tribal funds. Chairman Old Person pioneered the idea of replacing missing federal program and 638 contract funds with tribal dollars to avoid federal prison sentences for tribal councilmen. Chairman Old Person's "plea" was accepted by a federal judge who assessed a $3,5 million dollar bill against the tribe for missing Dept. of Labor  Manpower Program funds. I was a federal programs specialist during this time in the 1970's and I witnessed the tribal chairman lie in federal court to protect tribal council corruption and even watched a council man jump out his office window at the tribal office and run away from an FBI Agent. My poor, aged mother-in-law was forced to stuff shredded checks from tribal manpower programs in the pillow cases they were sewing at the "Green Thumb" program ensnaring our elders into accessories after the fact of a federal crime. The tribal council used tribal elders for committing federal crimes and threatened to take down our elders to prison with them. What a bunch of crooks, whether a chief in buckskins or politicians in business suits; they are the cause of our poverty and what about their "campaign promises" to our kids to get them Christmas gifts? Will there be Christmas payments?
Bob Juneau Sr.

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau Quote pg.37-38

"Agent Young reported,"Regarding charges of cattle killing this winter and the previous one by Indians on the hunt in the Judith Basin, confident Indians did not participate, but believes hard winter accounted for many losses of white cattlemen, White man named Jackson killed two Indians on border of reservation-40 miles away-when he opened fire on them when they came to discuss stolen horses.  They returned fire and he was killed.  Four Indians arrested for killing white men's cattle.  Indians complain large number of white men's cattle on reservation; although notified, they do nothing to remove them.  Indians hauling wood-working with wagons and horses is congenial employment for Indians.  Report of cattle dying off reservation during severe weather led to Indians to leave reservation for carcasses.  White cattle owners complained to Gen, Brockie, who led a guard and compelled Indians to return to Agency, sent to lodges and cautioned not to leave again.  There is a sad want of nourishing food and hospital stores for those recovering from illness." "The Indian Office failed to provide any relief throughout the spring and summer of 1884, and the agent reported the Indians were eating the inner bark of the cottonwood trees out of desperation.  The Inspector reported in the spring of 1884, "I find here about twenty five hundred Indians in almost starving condition.  I am credibly informed that many have died in the past few months from the want of sufficient food.  The Indians must depend upon the government for everything they eat, there being no game in the country for them, it is highly important that they should be given all that is estimated for, and even this amount will not prevent much suffering among them.  The Indians are orderly and wonderfully patient, all things considered, fewer offenses than common among them this winter- they must not be allowed to starve."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau     pg.37-38

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau Quote pg.37

"But does anyone suppose that 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 Young reported, "Complaints of Stock Growers Association against Indians, who they state, had set prairie fires.  Absolutely untrue; the Stockmen are prone to lay all their losses from any cause at the door of the Indians, while its conceded the Indians are not spotless characters, yet some proof should accompany the charges.  No white settlement on reservation, requests that application for children from Agency to attend St. Peter's Mission to be denied because Mission is 110 miles from Agency, parents going back and forth to visit might make trouble with white settlers, no children would willingly leave parents.  Agent's authority was openly flaunted in abduction of boys.  I have no confidence in these missionaries, nor have I seen any good resulting from their many years occasional visits to these tribes.  None of the heathenish practices abated, no civilization in any shape taught.  There is one of these Rev. Fathers on Birch Creek and he has so frequently been brought to my notice as the author of false statements to the Indians tending to make them dissatisfied with the management here.  Estimate 500-600 rifles among Indians-Henry rifles, no ammunition."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau    pg.37

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.36-37

"Agent Young reported, "I.G. Baker and Rice of Fort Benton pasturing 12,000 head of cattle on reservation, has been incorporated into Benton and St. Louis Cattle Co. have once again strayed on reservation. R.S. Ford, Texas Cattle King feels sure that report of his cattle being stopped at Birch Creek and permission refused to cross reservation in error." The Texas cattlemen then tried to spark an Indian massacre; and "expressed concern for their safety and protection of their cattle herds and property from the Blackfeet Indians." Captain Moale from Fort Shaw assured the Fort Benton merchants and Texas cattlemen of Choteau County that "the idea of those poor starved and unarmed wretches going on the warpath was laughable." There was no Blackfeet uprising-despite the deaths of some 600 Blackfeet Indians from starvation in the winter of 1883-1884. The most damning evidence of government neglect of the Indians was provided by Inspector C.H. Howard, who warned the Indian Office that there were already Blackfeet Indians starving to death in November of 1883, "It was my first experience in witnessing actual starvation; I have never before 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 the land which still remains a part of the domain of this tribe."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.36-37

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.36

"Agent Young reported, "Joseph W. Clark had been clerk here for nearly a year, and discharged his clerical duties well, latterly rumors came to the agent of his being too familiar with young squaws and when I got evidence of his criminal intercourse at once discharged him. One of my employees and one of the licensed traders were summarily dismissed for immorality with Indian women." Agent Young protested the libel of the Montana cattlemen's accusations of his having Indian concubines, "The whole relation in regard to my conduct is a gross libel, without a shadow of foundation in truth. I cannot comprehend why they did not find a bill against me, so that I could have an opportunity for defense. I feel deeply outraged and in the dark as to the course to pursue. This is my first impulse is to apply to you for advice and direction and you will please excuse the trouble and the liberty I take, I am aware a public servant must not object to his actions being criticized, the largest part of the jury are cattlemen and my stand in opposition to their struggle to take from these Indians of my charge, the larger and better part of the reservation is sufficient to account for their desire for my removal."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.36

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.35

"It is a grave error not to keep even an implied promise made to Indians. The division of supplies authorized will not prevent distress and loss of life and in all probability lead to outrage. My police force in such case would be useless, my employees, not being bound by any principle of honor or duty would leave. I could not supply their places and it would become necessary for me to call on the military for the protection of the government property and the lives of my family. Greatly preferring that someone better fitted to meet these movements or perhaps possessed of the ability to avoid them be appointed. I most respectfully request the acceptance of my resignation, to take effect on the arrival of my successor." Montana Territorial Governor Martin Magginnis came to the reservation and inspected the progress of starving Indians condition in October of 1883 and demanded, "The compensation for reservation lands which may be taken from the Indians be sufficient to supply food, tools, and instructors for a reasonable time as may be necessary to bring the Indians to self-support, and that the part surrendered be east of the 111th parallel of west longitude, from the Missouri river to the Canadian line."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.35

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.35

"27 ponies stolen from camp of Bear Chief on Two Medicine and two Piegans ambushed by Crees. On March 15, 111 horses stolen from Piegans, Crees thieves went to Canadian line, overtaken by Piegans, fight ensued, two scalps taken by Piegans, only 10 ponies recovered. Second raid on Birch Creek by Crees, 47 horses taken, 17 recovered, Cree thieves went toward Cadotte Pass, crossed mountains, Piegans resentful, no ammunition to pursue thieves. Cree horse thieves wounded Little Dog, Bird Tail and Jack Miller, but they were captured by Piegans and scalped. One horse stolen by Yeast Powder Bill." In August of 1883 Agent Young was awaiting 120,000 pounds of beef on the hoof and warned the Indian Office that even this amount would be insufficient for the Indian's winter needs. In September Agent Young reported "Nothing further can be done for the support of these Indians and directing my compliance with the instructions in relation to division of supplies. These instructions shall be carefully followed. Strong hopes have lately been given to these Indians assembled in Council by the Inspector, Special Agent, and the Members of the Senate Commission that more food would sent to them."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.35

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.34-35

"The Blackfeet Indians had suffered decades of political, physical, biological, and cultural genocides executed by the Fort Benton confederates and Texas cattle kings to rid the land of Indians, enabled by the willful negligence of the United States Government. The agent reported to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that, "withdrawing of permission to buy fixed ammunition hardship on Indians, as these tribes are friendly and are the inveterate enemies of those who have given the Government trouble, the Sioux and Cree Indians, it seems to me harsh if not cruel to deprive them of the facility for taking such small game as they can find along the mountains, to help increase the insufficient supply of food the Agency has to offer. Regarding raids made on Crow camps by Piegans; feeling running high among Piegans against Crows since 1880, when Crows held peace council at hunting grounds; small party of 50 Piegans invited to Crow camp and murdered. Rocky Boy Crees also know Piegans have no ammunition, crossed the Canadian line and killed Piegans and stole 66 ponies from Three Suns camp, Piegans pursued thieves, but greatly disadvantaged without ammunition."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.34-35

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.34

"Nowhere in my journeying have I seen a country so destitute of wild game." He was taken aback by the fact that the local cattlemen could send the county sheriff to the reservation to arrest Indians for killing cattle which had trespassed on the reservation lands, "but that is the practice in this portion of Montana." Indian cattle were called "injun critters" by the Texas cattlemen and taken for what the county sheriff called "bad debts." The Sheriff of Choteau County arrested and took away four Indians accused with killing cattle, but Agent Young refused to assent to their removal, read law to Sheriff, was told "he did not care for U.S. law and would take the prisoners anyhow." Agent Young did not want the Indians to see conflict of authority so delivered written protest and notified U.S. Marshall in Helena, capital of Montana Territory. He reported visits of Sheriff detrimental to good management of agency, "These men use language tending to exasperate Indians such as, "only good use to put Indians is to hang them", etc. One of the prisoners taken this time is a mere boy and a panic has seized my boarding scholars lest they may be arrested and taken off."
-The Sarced Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.34

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.33-34

"In large herds, they often consume all the grass in the vicinity of an Indian village. I recommend that an equitable toll be fixed upon each head of cattle so driven across the Revervation. These herds find market at high figures across the border. An unprejudiced Commission might be appointed to fix the rate of toll." Among the cattle herds Inspector Howard had noticed was that of the Benton Cattle Company. The Indian Office investigated charges made by Inspector Howard of the conditions at the Blackfeet Agency, which indicated that goods contracted for delivery in 1880-1881 by Fort Benton contractor T.C. Power were still undelivered, and a shipment of bacon to replace the unshipped beef proved to be contaminated by maggots. In February of 1883 Agent Young exhausted his beef rations but the trespassing Texas cattlemen refused to sell any of their beef to the agency. In May of 1883 Agent Young told the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that there would not be enough rations the next month to prevent suffering among the Indians due to starvation. In June of 1883 Indian Office Inspector Benedict reported the "truly desperate conditions" of the Blackfeet Indians and indicated that many of the Indian children had died during the previous winter from malnutrition related diseases; "there is practically nothing upon this reservation for these people to subsist upon but what is furnished by the government."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.33-34

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.33

"Agent Young reported, "No knowledge of Indians off reservation or committing depredations. Must be Northern Piegans." Major Walsh reported, "regarding difficulty in arresting whiskey traders-they cross this reservation either so far down on the Benton trail, or else along the foot of the mountains, in either case beyond the reach of any vigilance I can exercise. Recently Indian found in water near edge of a lake eighty gallons which was no doubt intended for transportation across the line. And, last week a wagon was reported to have passed north near head of Birch Creek, known to be carrying liquor, soldiers dispatched from camp on Birch Creek but liquor trader eluded them." Inspector Howard filed a report requesting replacement of Agent Young as soon as possible, and felt if the revenue due the Indians for the Texas cattle kings trespassing cattle had been collected the Indians would have received funds to purchase their own food. He reported "Some 10,000 head of cattle, it is estimated, were driven across this Reservation the past season en route to the British Provinces. They go grazing along-taking all the time they choose, sometimes spend weeks within the limit of the Reservation."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.33

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.33

"Agent Young protested the land reduction by pointing out the reservation had little arable lands, it's main feature is the Rocky Mountains and their wide spreading spurs, good grazing in parts, but nothing capable of cultivation, except strips of bottom land on the margin of streams, and these only by irrigation or skilled farming. He reported,"Entire reservation needed for grazing, which should be Indians main support. More soldiers would be required to keep these Indians on the proposed reduced reservation than there are now in all Montana. I earnestly trust in the cause of justice, humanity, and economy that it may not pass." Tragically for the starving Piegans, while Agent Young was attempting to remove thousands of Texas stockmen's cattle trespassing on the reservation, he was also trying to purchase beef on the hoof for the Indians, which the Texas cattlemen refused to sell him. Agent Young became alarmed when he thought the Blackfeet people were becoming hostile over lack of food, and called the Army to the reservation. The Army found no signs of an Indian uprising, but supported the agent's claims the rations were inadequate, and reported the Indians were beginning to kill off the agency herd in search of food. T.C. Power continued to short weight the rations while thousands of white stockmen's cattle trespassed on the reservation.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.33

CHIEF WHITE CALF'S BLACKFEET CLAIMS DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON D.C.

Chief White Calf was in no position to fight for Blackfeet land claims as he told the senators: "In the old days when we made war on the other tribes, and conquered the land you later took away from us; our warriors carried a bow and two quivers full of arrows. But, now a days one can no longer fight with arrows, now a days one must fight with money. If you want me to be able to fight, then fill my quivers with money and then I will be able to fight for my people." The same truth is evident today, as the allotted land claims "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" the claims documents Chief White Calf and tribal elders Joe Bear Medicine and Willie Running Crane were concerned with in 1982, still sit in the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Browning on the Blackfeet Reservation in a big pallet sized box of sealed documents. The Blackfeet Indians do not have the money to research family land documents, titles, or to hire lawyers, economists, or lobby Congress.
The book, "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" was written to raise awareness of existing Indian land claims for ultimate recovery of the private-property of individual Indian landowners and to fill our quivers with money with which to fight for our land claims against the State of Montana and corporations like the railroad, confederate gold miners, Texas cattle kings, oil men, Jim Hill and his son Louis, a father & son pair of robber barons who are parasites on the Indians since the 1800's. The past 100 years of "Slow-Death Measures" genocide were inflicted on the Indians by "looting" Indian property and reducing the Blackfeet Tribe to "apartheid-like squalor" as the border-whites robbed water holes, prime grazing lands, irrigated farm lands, tourism lands, and usurped the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry successfully developed by the Blackfeet cattle ranchers by 1890. The success is guaranteed in the 1896 Agreement/Article Five, which is a treaty right only for the Blackfeet Indians. I have no personal wealth left in my pockets to contribute to the claims. I have been impoverished by the claims as have Chief White Calf and other Indians who fought for Indian land claims in the history of the Blackfeet Tribe. If you purchase a book, then you will get the truth of Indian-white history in Montana from 1863-2014 right from government documents and the oral history of the Blackfeet people, and then you can judge for yourself whether the Indians have a just claim. Please, buy a book and that may be enough to turn the tide toward justice for a class of Americans robbed and left by the roadside for death, but who will not die, nor give up just claims, Bob Juneau SR.

The Sacred Buffalo Vision By Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau characters, terms, and events pg.11-14

The Sacred Buffalo Vision
by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
Fort Benton, Montana Territory-killing & scalping Indians
pg.11-14  
characters, terms, and events
Fort Benton, Montana
1866 Blackfeet Agency
Agent Wright
Confederate gold miners
September 18, 1866
Treaty of 1865
Montana Governor Thomas Francis Meagher  
Judge Munson
Gad E. Upson
Blackfeet Chiefs
September 19, 1866
Treaty of the Judith River 1855
United States Congress
Flathead Agency
U.S. Army Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Lt. Col Sully  

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau characters, terms, events pg.9-11

The Sacred Buffalo Vision
by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
Board of Indian Commissioners Report, 1869
pg.9-11
characters, terms, and events
President Grant
Board of Indian Commissioners
Report November 23, 1869
1872 Board of Indian Commissioners
1873 House of Representatives Inquiry into Indian Bureau
Christian Church officials
Corrupt Indian Agents
Fort Benton, Montana
Texas cattle kings
President Grant's Peace Policy of "civilizing by Christianizing"
Indian Service Administration
Montana Politicians
Confederate-gold miners

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.32

"The Montana Territory newspaper, Fort Benton Weekly Record, criticized Agent Young for claiming the Indians were starving. Agent Young argued the paper was merely the spokesmen for the Choteau County Stock Growers Association, whose members were trying to get the reservation reduced once again for increasing grazing lands for their cattle herds. Agent Young responded to the Texas cattle kings criticism's, "The Benton Record, in the interest of the Choteau County Stock Growers Association, is constantly abusing the agent, publishing anonymous attacks and stirring up dissatisfaction among the Indians, all for the purpose of getting the government to again take a slice off the reservation and thus increase their stock ranges. It is more than six years since the last curtailment was made and now there is a strong effort for a further grab of Indian lands for the benefit of stockmen."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.32

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.31-32

"None of the time was spent on private business whatever. 30 days needed just for travel to Washington and return." He protested "rations approved for fiscal year will in all probability cause much loss of life, and a large military force will be needed to prevent destruction of government property, cattle herd; that supplies must reach Agency before November, freighting in the winter is almost impossible. The anxiety and sleepless nights of last winter I must try to avoid in the coming one. That in view of inadequate purchases of beef and flour for Agency; annuity goods except blankets and clothing be omitted and funds used to increase supply of provisions." Agent Young wrote Colonel Gibson of Fort Shaw that he feared violence on part of Indians since insufficient appropriation was made by Congress: "This has naturally caused dissatisfaction amongst the Indians as they suppose I am the cause. I would respectfully suggest the propriety of Col. Kent's command being moved nearer this Agency for the moral support it would afford."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.31-32

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.31

"The agency employees feared for their lives if the starving Indians protested their condition. By the winter of 1882 there was a great deal of suffering among the Blackfeet camps due to the failure of Fort Benton contractor T.C. Power to deliver adequate rations as required by his perennial contract for supplying the Blackfeet Agency. Agent Young's complaints about the lack of rations were multiplied by the failure of the Fort Benton contractors to provide acceptable items. T.C. Power had his delivery of flour rejected by Lt. Stouch from Fort Shaw, who noted the shipments were short weighted as well. The agent reported flour urgently needed, supply of beef will be exhausted shortly, Teton County began taxing agency employees. Agent Young requested an additional Congressional Appropriation of $60,000, "owing to the failure of their past support from buffalo and other game, they are now compelled to rely entirely upon this Agency for their supply of food." Agent Young reported he was greatly distressed that his "voucher for expense of trip to Washington disallowed-trip had been approved by Commissioner of Indian Affairs-all my energies were put forth to obtain the supplies for the Indians so urgently needed before the winter."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.31

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.30-31

"13 or 14 bands, each under it's own chief, aggregating over 7,000, made up of about the same variety of character that would be shown by a similar number of whites, and with many superstitions among them, that of not occupying a dwelling where a death has occurred, which sometimes upsets attempts at permanent residence, the change from living by the chase to location and raising crops in a climate where irrigation and much labor is required, must necessarily be a work of slow growth. With proper encouragement and protection, there is no reason why these Indians may not in a few years, become self-sustaining and prosperous."
Blackfeet famine 1881-1885
By the end of summer, 1881, both the Texas cattlemen, who were trespassing on the reservation and the Army, were concerned that if the Indian Office did not provide adequate rations, there would be violence from the starving Indians. The Fort Benton contractor T.C. Power, the favored contractor for the Indian Office, delayed the delivery of government rations, but the Indian Office did little to prosecute his peculations.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.30-31

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.30

"Agent reported failure of government contractor T.C. Power to deliver flour, "I cannot allow the Indians to suffer for want of food and in my anxiety on this score may have written harsh things which I hope you will overlook. My anxiety and duty are to see that my Indians do not suffer." Two Piegan boys taken by Father Imoda are the only boarding pupils at Fort Shaw, 20 Cree children attended during day. No white or half-breed children. Crees attack near to Agency and steal 60-70 horses belonging to Piegans. 2,339 camped near Agency. In July, 1881 Agent Young reported, "No Indian tribes who have had as little intercourse with the whites as Blackfeet-out of the way location, no major roads through it, and reputation of the tribe "for possession of all the bad qualities of the Indian." Isolated position lost to Indians civilizing influences, but saved them from vice and degradation which usually increased the death rate and points to extermination. Events of twelve years ago have made them docile in accepting white man."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.30

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.30

"May, 1881, Seeding completed a month earlier than ever before and nearly double the land planted. Indians progressing in their farming. Indian women clearing out irrigating ditches, men repairing fences. Several deaths among children from measles. Several bands returned from hunting, northern Piegans passing through causing trouble by stealing horses and burning grass, measles among children, 1,433 near Agency. June, 1881, Weather dry; put irrigation in operation. Sawmill in working order; crew has gone to mountains to cut logs to float river. Will distribute annuity goods June, 2; all Indians have returned to reservation but one band. School closed because of measles. A.C. Botkin, U.S. Marshall, Helena visited Agency concerning agency employee, S.M. Corson who took young Indian wife, left reservation, sent back wife and baby because he wanted to marry white girl. Frank M. Eastman, Helena, U.S. Attorney reported concerning Piegan Indian woman "Leah" who was Indian wife of Corson-regrets she has no legal redress. Under Montana Territorial laws Corson cannot be compelled to marry Leah or provide support for herself and child."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.30

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.29

"Old settlers say the worst winter they ever knew. Outside work slowed to standstill; occupied with improving the inside of dwellings, making roofs more secure, and proof against the storms and the fine sifting snow drifts, and in painting the wood work, etc. Reports of a large camp off on buffalo hunt, that their success only moderate and some bands on way back to Agency, earlier than usual. 605 camped near Agency. March, 1881, Fast Buffalo Horse's band has returned from buffalo hunt-buffalo at first moderately plenty but then disappeared entirely, came back hungry, short growing season, rarely gives sufficient time for either roots or grain to ripen. Children progress in school-can give name of nearly every article in English. 828 camped near Agency. April, 1881, frost began to leave ground latter part of March and farming operations began. Indians work at hauling wood and building fences and farming. Bands coming back from hunt-not many will go on hunt next year, will stay near agency and work for support. 820 near Agency."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.29

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.29

"Root crops in, firewood being put up for winter. Sawmill nearly complete. Number of Indians building cabins near, furnish them "like white men"- clocks and chairs, etc., weather stormy and cold, no outdoor work, potatoes harvested, snow too deep for harvesting saw logs. Indians beginning to feel hunger, supplies finally delivered by T.C. Power, Fort Benton government contractor. 598 encamped near agency." December, 1880 Agent Young being in Helena to give evidence in murder trial. Furnishing of Agency progressing. Weather severe-thirty below zero. Progress in cabins, attendance in school hampered by weather. Good reports from bands hunting buffalo, will much reduce weekly issue, buffalo on reservation between Sweet Grass and Bear Paws. Indians cautioned not to follow buffalo off reservation, white men greatly excited and angry. 630 camped near agency. January, 1881 Agent Young reported operations at Agency slowed down by heavy snow and cold. School closed for the month, since teachers were at Helena to testify in case of abducted boys by Father Imoda. 614 camped near Agency. February, 1881, weather unusually severe-very seldom above zero, sometimes 40 below."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.29

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.28

"Whites complain Indians off reservation. Haying completed, grain yield good, Indians occupied in Medicine Lodge ceremonies, some Indians left for buffalo hunt, buffalo reported crossing to reservation side of Missouri, two parties attacked by Sioux and Cree, came back discouraged, 1,725 camped near Agency. November, 1880 Agent Young reported the great success of first attempt to use Indian freighters, having been gone 12 days (140 miles each way); "expedition great success." Another trip made by Indians on 12th-"The passage of the expedition through the Territory created a sensation, such an "outfit" never having been seen before." Squaw men on reservation borders passed rumor to Indians that trip was only ruse to get Indians to Fort Shaw where they would be imprisoned, another expedition left, 21 wagons, 19 driven by Indians-equally successful, demonstrated Indians were capable of freighting supplies and annuities from Fort Benton or R.R. Root vegetables harvested, saw mill almost ready to operate. Indian cabins nicely furnished. Hauled lumber for agency buildings."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.28

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.28

"August, 1880, Agent Report on influence of Baker massacre, report of Walmsley murder, false charges of Indians killing white ranchers; Texas cattle kings in Judith Basin, Medicine Lodge (commenting on resemblance of ceremony to Jewish rites), cabins on Birch Creek and Badger Creek, educational progress, horse stealing by young men, hopes of self-sustaining efforts to develop sufficiently and in time to prevent suffering before game is gone, police force organized Oct. 1, 1878, 15 men, increased July 1, 1879, to 30 men, one captain, one Lt., five sergeants, and 23 privates, under agency employee as Chief of Police. Success of force great, "resulting in an almost entire suppression of quarreling and petty crimes, formerly common among tribes." "No transportation of supplies has yet been done by Indians. October, 1880, Agent Report for September; band after band left for hunting ground on Missouri, Piegan boys still with Father Imoda, exerting every effort to get them back; Indians interested to see whether the Priest or I am the strongest. School popular, no summer vacation, the teachers gave them a ride some six miles down the valley, a holiday and straw ride to old Ft. Maginnis, there has never been such a thing heard of before, it was a great success."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.28

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.27

"July, 1880, Agent Report for June, farm work progressing. 506 head of stock cattle received. To fully inform them of the purpose for which they were intended, I called a Council and explained they were not to kill, increase in a few years might supply enough beef for tribe. Also spoke to Council on subject of the young men who had gone to what they call war, really stealing horses. The Chiefs spoke to the young men, censuring their conduct, blaming it on influence of northern Piegans who were visiting. Telegram from Commissioner about additional rations. Indians proud of progress in putting in their small crops sooner than agencies, cutting logs for sawmill in mountains, have cut 900 logs to be floated down when mountain snow melts-20 miles to agency, distribution of goods and supplies made on 2nd and 3rd of month; Capt. Stouch present, number of cabins being built by Indians double last years. Bear Chiefs band has begun to build on Two Medicine, the first on that stream, school resumed. Indians have been victims of deceit and injustice, false report about small pox. 2,698 camped near Agency."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.27

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.27

"These Indians, like the rest, are disturbed at being brought from where they could hunt, to where there is no game and not enough provisions furnished by the Gov't for their support. The Chiefs generally do not countenance the grumbling but are willing to be advised and do the best they can. Were it not so and if the young bucks could get the countenance and support of the head men there would be trouble. Some of these young men talk badly and make threats, such as how easy it would be to kill the few whites and burn the Agency buildings. Little Duck and some others went to Bear Paws to look for game, but instead went on horse stealing raid. Father Imoda enticed three boys to go with him. Wrote to Gen. Brooke at Fort Shaw to intercept them. My efforts for the training of the school boys would be futile if irresponsible persons were allowed to coax away or abduct the boys. Number nearby encamped is large, also school attendance."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.27

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.26-27

"Their loss in horses was great, no feed for them, they became weak and had to be left behind, no stoppages being permitted. Connect post trader with matter and will not trade at store near Agency, makes it difficult to keep them on reservation. Some of the younger ones ask how they are to live, as there is little game on the reservation and my yearly supplies would last only a short time if full rations were given to all. They say also that if the Great Father will not allow them to follow the game to where it is to be had; he should allow them sufficient food to remain on the reservation. Head Chiefs reasonable and understand his position. Only Bear Chief's band has yet to come into Agency. Rumors they have small pox. 2,270 encamped near Agency. June, 1880, Report for May; Very busy time, crops not all in. Agency farm increased from 35 acres to 80. Indian farms double the number last year. Middle Bull's band brought to reservation from Yellowstone country."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.26-27

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.26

"Blackfeet Agent Young reported that the Blackfeet people would require an increased food ration because of the extraordinarily rapid disappearance of the tribal buffalo herds. In 1862 the northern buffalo herds were estimated at over 4,000,000, but by 1881 they were nearly gone due to the whiskey trade and commercial demand for buffalo hides in eastern markets. The Indian Office operated on the belief that as soon as the buffalo disappeared, it would be easier to change the Indians economy. The Army tactic is to destroy the Indian's food supply to pacify the Indian tribes. However, there was no contingency plan for a reciprocal increase of food supply to match the growing dependence of the Blackfeet Indians on government rations.
Monthly Agency Reports of Agent Young
May, 1880, Agent Young, Report for April; frost left ground, ox team put to plowing, twice as much ground broken as last year. Indians working. "I had the gratification of seeing Big Brave between the handles of the plow doing fair work, when I first proposed this altered mode of life two years since, he then said he was a "warrior" his business was to hunt and fight." Indians camped near in large numbers, drain on supplies, much displeased at being brought back by soldiers from the hunt, in such inclement weather, on false charges of whites on Indian depredations."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.26

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.25-26

"President Grant's Peace Policy was ended in favor of the Government Boarding Schools and his Indian education program policy of civilizing and educating Indian children with a massive dose of Christianity was abandoned. The Government run Indian Schools policy was defined "to kill the Indian and save the child" by cutting Indian students braids, religious conversion, and to "beat" the Indian languages and customs out of the Indian students in government schools far from the reservations. These schools taught a basic vocational curriculum with an English education to allow the young Indians to understand the requirements of living in the American civilization as "white-Americans." It was successful in helping Indians to adapt to the American economy in agricultural pursuits, entering government service, and in educating tribal bureaucrats, but it also caused psychological problems. Brother Van, a Methodist minister sent to the Blackfeet Reservation to preach to the Indians instead turned his attention to the 600 Confederate "renegades" who passed through Fort Benton on their way to Blackfoot Territory, whom the Blackfeet Agent "feared they would prejudice the Blackfeet against the Government and swindle them." The Agent reported Montana Territory was rapidly filling up with the "worst kind of whites" due to the gold rush."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.25-26

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.25

"The priests planned to have the Indian students being trained at the missions to marry each other upon graduation, and to be given land near the mission, so that their civilized-Christianized lifestyles would serve as proper examples to their savage Indian neighbors. This system of vocational education was directed to teaching basic life skills, with the goal of producing self-supporting white-oriented Christian Indians. The Indian children were drilled with daily mass, religious instructions and devotions, and there were morning and night prayers in common, the daily Rosary, Benediction every Sunday, the "Angelus" prayer three times daily, and prayer before and after classes and meals. Father Grant wrote "It is difficult to instill in the students a true spirit of ferver, since they do not have very fervent parents." Special Agent Horatio L. Seward reported that of the surviving population of 1,811 Piegan Indians on the Blackfeet reservation out of over 7,800 Indians prior to contact; "Perhaps 5% of these Indians are Roman Catholic and the others are Sun worshippers."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.25

ENVIRONMENTAL HOLOCAUST IS VISIBLE ON BLACKFEET RESERVATION

The area of the northern Rockies containing Glacier Park, the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and the border-whites apartheid territory-Glacier County-the lands robbed from the Indians during the allotment period have grown to 529,000 acres are a visible contrast of Indian land use and science of the modern era. Preservation policy of Glacier Park were enacted to fence out the Indians use of land for hunting and religious uses. The park superintendent tried to force state law on the reservation to keep the Indians from hunting "park" elk that wandered out of the borders but the Indians fought back and preserved their treaty rights to hunt game on the reservation for subsistence. By 1930 the elk herds had grown so large inside the park they became an environmental disaster by eating up the scenery and crapping excessively in the pure glacial waters causing intestinal worms to tourists who drank the water. The park superintendent had to send his rangers, "Smoky the Bear" hats in hand to the tribal council to request a winter hunt of elk to thin the herds of surplus elk. The hunt was held in the winter so tourists wouldn't see the failure of the preservation policy as the rangers drove the elk onto the reservation by the hundreds to feed a hungry group of Indians. Today the park is over run with bears but the rangers drive the bears onto the reservation forcing the tribe to manage their problem bears. The St. Mary ranger station has caused environmental damage to tribal lands by changing the course of Divide Creek to move the line, and was caught burying oil and old trash under park lands, and tourist poop was entering the rivers from Hill's hotels inside the park. Glacier Park policy also tried to usurp reservation lands and treaty rights by taking all of the lands west of the Blackfeet Highway built with tribal funds for the tourist hotels of Jim Hill at St. Mary Village, who also robbed the allotted lands of the teenage Monroe sisters whose allotment connected the highway to the east entrance to the park so they wouldn't have to pay for a right-of-way across reservation lands. Jim Hill was given Blackfeet land and materials to build roads and hotels to his property at East Glacier and St. Mary Village, and when the Indians were impoverished he "hired" the Indians to dance for the tourists and paid them by passing the hat among tourists and feeding them by scraping food from leftover tourists dinner plates. He renamed the Blackfeet Indians "Glacier Park Indians" and used their portraits for promotions and post cards, but never saw fit to pay for their images. The Great Northern Railway was also found to be a co-conspirator with border-whites to starve the Indians into selling their allotted lands causing the deaths of many Indians. The park lands illustrate the failure of the preservation policy as the animals must retreat to the high ridges as the lower lands are so congested with underbrush the animals cannot graze there, and climate change will melt the glaciers by 2030 creating more demand for Blackfeet water and land by the state and federal governments. The forest fires inside the park burned the forest land of the Blackfeet Reservation and will eventually burn all of the park from accumulated forest for 100 years, not to mention pine beetle infestation. The land use is contrasted more so by the plowed lands of border-whites in Glacier county located on the reservation and pollution of reservation streams by farmers pouring pesticides and fertilizers on crops which drain into the aquifers and rivers. The border-whites sued the tribe for pollution of water in Cut Bank the county seat located off-reservation but it was found they had polluted their own water from oil wells and farmers pesticides. The Blackfeet have a proverb that goes "do not crap in your own medicine bag" which the white man has yet to learn. The Blackfeet have preserved their "big-grass country" which produces beef cattle that are ready for market right off the range as grass fed beef, but those lands were robbed by whites and are the subject of the forced patents land claims unresolved after 100 years. The topsoil in Montana is one inch thick after 100 years of the plow, the rivers are polluted, and only the Indians have pure water and unpolluted lands due to native land use policy that preserved the rich buffalo grasses that fed millions of buffalo before the white man came to Blackfoot Country. Now the state and federal governments have the Indians in a crossfire in the state-tribal water compact created by a federal law that places Indian water rights in state court jurisdiction. The Indians will lose once again, and the white man will win, but the environment will be destroyed and all humans will suffer in the end times. Bob Juneau Sr.

MAGNITUDE OF INDIAN LAND CLAIMS-100 MILLION ACRES, 1 MILLION INDIANS, TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS

The super rich corporate cartel has purchased Congress, as statistics demonstrate the class-divide of the rich 1% and the 99% of the rest of America, it is only getting worse. It is a feudal system America is sinking into due to the political power purchased by corporate lobbyists and billionaires who desire to be trillionaires. The corporate despoilers of the earth bought their license from government regulators-Congress-who pull the teeth of environmental laws and create loophole crawlers. The Indians are the original victims of corporate-Congress conspiracy to defraud Indian property and rob Indian money, and resources with impunity. I have brought our land claims to Congress in 1980, 2001, 2005, and 2007, and there they sit on the shelf of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. The Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General are defendants who lost a federal court class action suit in which the judge ordered the federal officials to either litigate Indian claims or send the claims to Congress for legislative resolution [restoring Indian titles] but President Reagan defied 250 years of settled Indian law in treaty guarantees to the Indian people in the 1790 Indian Trade and Non-Intercourse Act by President George Washington; creating tribal sovereignty and protection from states and speculators in exchange for Indian land cessions that became the United States. George Washington was afraid the principles contained in the Constitution would become a sordid real estate deal. The social contract white Americans hold with their government for fair dealing and equal opportunity has been usurped by corporate lobbyists. The Blackfeet people have been robbed of 529,000 acres of land and oil wells by the railroad and big-meat trusts who control political systems down to the county and city levels of governance. Nothing is too small to attract the corporate giants as the burritos sold by independent gas station operators was taken by Exxon etc. and turned into a convenience store. Government investigations document the robbery of Indian land and resources, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs "confessed" complicity in the Indian land frauds before a Senate Indian Committee hearing in 1979. It is no different outcome for American citizens who own a piece of property the Walton kids desire for a Walmart location, that corner property can be condemned by the city council. Yet, the rich man's political party-Republicans-see nothing wrong in cutting taxes for the rich and cutting welfare for the poor. I have been impoverished although I own land with a river running through it, clean water, the most valuable commodity on earth, but I cannot sell my water to a global market due to federal Indian policy. Isn't that restraint of trade? Soviet in nature? In America! Reagan was accused of economic apartheid in America by South Africa, so he punished the Indians by cutting Indian treaty funds by 40% to intimidate Indian protests of land frauds, causing many deaths on Indian reservations across America. I will die trying for justice in America. I talked with an Assistant United States Attorney for Montana and was told that, yes, they were aware of the Indian land frauds, but no! They have no plans to sue the crooks or send our claims to Congress in 2014 or ever for that matter, after all they would have to sue themselves on behalf of the Indian wards of the government; exposing to the world the disgrace of apartheid in America. Bob Juneau Sr.

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roots of economic apartheid on the reservation  
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Characters, terms, and events  
Confederate soldiers
"Confederate Gulch"
Helena, Montana
Blackfeet 1855 Treaty
Senator Teller
General Indian Allotment Act of 1887
1864 Organic Act of the Territory of Montana
1889 Enabling Act Ordinance No.1
1889 Montana Constitution
Article 1 1972 Montana Constitution    
1919 Montana Legislature
reservation/county governments  
"prisoner's dilemma" state laws
Montana Confederates
"Slow Death Measures" genocide
Glacier and Pondera Counties  

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The Indians Tell the Story  
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Characters, terms, and events  
Rides-At-The-Door  
United States Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Montana Senators
Blackfeet Treaty of October 17, 1855
President Franklin Pierce

USURPATION OF THE BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION BY BORDER-WHITES

The future is now! All glaciers in Glacier Park will melt in just 15 years by 2030 and leave just the snow pack for water resources,which combined with global warming points to water shortages across the United States and within Montana. The Blackfeet Indians reserved by treaty with the Congress all grazing lands and pure waters of the Blackfeet Reservation, but the Montana border-whites have robbed our land and waters. The fee lands occupied by whites have been polluted with pesticides and fertilizers, and oil companies have polluted the water table from Seville to the Sweet Grass Hills with chemicals from drill pipes and holding tanks. The Blackfeet Chiefs in every treaty and agreement chose the staff of life of clean water, grazing lands and timber to support the Blackfeet cattle industry, which was recognized as a success in the 1896 Agreement reserving all reservation land and water for the Blackfeet cattle ranchers. The white men were banned from the Blackfeet Reservation. Usurpation is the "unlawful encroachment or assumption of the use of property, power, or authority which belongs to another. An interruption or the disturbing a man in his right and possession; unlawful seizure or assumption of sovereign power; assumption of government or supreme power by force or illegally, in derogation of the constitution and of the rights of the lawful ruler for which writ of prohibition may be granted involves attempted exercise of power not possessed by inferior officer, unjustly intruding upon or exercising any office or liberty belonging to another." The illegal occupation of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation upon stolen Blackfeet land allotments alienated in Glacier County Court by border-white judges, juries, and prosecutors have robbed large portions of the Blackfeet Reservation land base by usurpation of Blackfeet Treaty Rights. The Blackfeet Indians have been massacred, starved, robbed, and subjected to "Slow Death Measures" genocides by the white men living on stolen Blackfeet land allotments and reduced to poverty and prisoners of state jurisdiction without any consent of the Indians or the prior approval of Congress. That is how the white man got on the Blackfeet Reservation. Today, the white men in Glacier County are demanding the remaining waters of the Blackfeet Reservation by the state-tribal water compact which restricts inter-state trade of the Indians with regard to marketing their clean, pure water resources to off-reservation water markets. The Indian landowners have kept their waters clean and pure while the white man has polluted his waters. Is it justice to demand the Indians water and to order the Indians to go under state law to control the price and marketing of Indian water and the use of Indian water?  The white man's "reservation" is the State of Montana. Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet landowner

GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES SHARE GENOCIDE GUILT

The German people were made to bury the bodies of Jewish death camp victims by President Roosevelt and the U.S. Army High Command to share in Hitler's guilt of the Jewish Holocaust. But, the Indian Holocaust in the United States is largely forgotten except the victims names remain on the list of eligible Indian Money Damage claims for massacre of Heavy Runner's band in 1869 and the deaths of millions of Indian people in the westward movement of the United States into Indian Country. My great-grandmother's Mattie Medicine Wolf Woman, and Mary Black Horn, were survivors of the massacre and also robbed of their land allotments by 1918, and remain on the list of eligible claimants in 2014; now approaching a century old. My father was a rifleman for General Patton's tank corp, who helped to liberate Jewish holocaust victims in World War Two, I served in the Vietnam War and my son served in the Desert Storm War on Iraq. What is our reward for being loyal Americans? Our family land claims have been held up for 100 years. President Reagan threw our land claims in the trash can in 1983, all the while calling Indians lazy and basically dumb; I guess for believing America's promises of justice for the Indian people. Now, today it is Indian water the corporations are robbing from the Indians with the help of the U.S. Government. Ms. Sally Jewel, the Secretary of the Interior, herself a billionaire, has no plan to help the Indians market their clean water supplies to world markets, as we must assume she would do if she owned the water supplies. The border-whites are corporations who entered the Blackfeet Reservation by robbing the Blackfeet Indians of their land allotments, which are the private property of the Indian people. The land frauds were carried out on illiterate Indian landowners as reported by Senate Indian Committee investigator Walter W. Liggett in 1928, whereby it was arranged to force an illiterate Indian who had some valuable property desired by a white man to accept a patent-in-fee on his land which was robbed in Glacier County Court by cattlemen, the railroad, corporations, and politicians. This report was issued in 1928 and since it covered the years 1900-1922 it is well over 100 years since the United States Government has kicked the Indian claims down the road. Now, it is the Indian's water resources the white men and U.S. Government are robbing through the state-tribal water compact forced on the Indian landowners, who now have to prove ownership of their own water in a state court. The German people suffered world condemnation for the Jewish Holocaust while America is set up as the world's judge and jury of human rights violations. Billions of dollars of Indian money and water will flow to the crooks once again, inside and outside of the government, while the Indian owners of those resources have trouble feeding, clothing and housing themselves today. That is an example of "slow death measures" genocide depriving us Indians of our property and money while we are helpless to protest in court-President Reagan threw our winning court decision in the trash can and there it sits today. There must be somebody out there who can help poor Indians get their stolen lands returned with just compensation-lack of money is slowly killing us. The American people should be made to look at the poverty and deaths of the Indian people done in their name in treaty. Bob Juneau Sr.

INDIAN GENOCIDE BY POVERTY IN AMERICA

The Sacred Buffalo Vision book exposes the on-going thread of "Slow-Death Measures" Genocides of today that are focused on robbing the remaining Indian land and water resources by corporate America. The American colonists wealth was built on Indian land negotiated by treaties with Indian Tribes. The Indian Treaty plays an important role in the "image" of the United States as the last defender of freedom from dictators across the world. This is the American history taught in public schools. My grandmother's are on the list of eligible Indian claimants for Indian Money Damage Claims to restore the stolen lands on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the heirs of the original Blackfeet landowners. The Indian lands robbed by complicity of federal trustees with corporate business owners like the father & son robber barons James J. Hill and his son Louis Hill owners of the Great Northern Railway. The on-going Indian genocide is exposed in Congress' role in the water wars by corporate giants, federal trustees, and the water-users downstream from the Blackfeet Reservation at the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. The federal trustees, as usual, are on the side of corporate interests in forcing the Indians to choose state court litigation or negotiation in water compacts in which the federal trustee represents the Indian landowners and water rights owners. The corporate man like Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens is allowed to purchase federal [Agriculture Department] water @ $50 per acre foot and re-sell it at $325,850 per acre foot to Dallas,Texas, transporting it by pipeline with federal approval. The quality of the Blackfeet Reservation water makes it the most valuable on earth with zero contaminants because there is no pollution between the source of the water in Glacier National Park. This water is also the last of the Glacial Waters of the ice age, which glaciers will be melted by 2030. Imagine the cost of such waters to have a sip of the last ice-age water on the planet! The white ranchers and farmers on the reservation and oil companies have polluted their waters and property and now demand the pure waters of the Blackfeet Indians. The Cut Bank River begins in the mountains in Glacier Park, and is pure until it reaches the farms and cattle ranches of white men, and then it becomes a polluted river with pesticides and fertilizers, and oil company chemicals that go back to the 1920's when Louis Hill was prospecting with his father James J. Hill on the Blackfeet Reservation for coal and oil deposits which they stole with the complicity of federal trustees. Indian reservations are operated for the profits of corporations while federal trustees have a negative incentive to enrich the Indians-no more lucrative Indian Bureau jobs or federal poverty contract funds. Meanwhile, the Indians are slowly dying from poverty related diseases like the juvenile diabetes epidemic on the reservation, where the Indian Health Service doctors say the children will require kidney transplants by age of 20; all preventable by a healthy diet. Last winter in sub-zero weather the Blackfeet poor were living in cars to keep from freezing unable to pay electric bills, while food trucks from Montana Food Bank brought food supplies and winter coats for children. Our water is worth billions of dollars per year, but the federal trustees will not allow the Indians to put their precious water on the world market. Our family ranch has pure Cut Bank river water running through it and pure well-water but no development fund..Hundreds of Blackfeet landowners have pure waters on their lands-and pure underground aquifers, but we need investors! We need a group of investors who will help us get rich too. Is there anybody out there who will help us develop our water resources? T. Boone Pickens and any other corporate interests are welcome to bid on our water!  Lack of money is killing us, we need cash quick-no state tax on Indian water sales-no state regulation on the reservation-this is a excellent business climate. Bob Juneau Sr.

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.24-25

"Blackfeet Agents enforced the Christianizing indoctrination by withholding food rations from traditional Indian parents who refused to send their children to the Holy Family Mission School, and the agent would not recognize the authority of traditional tribal chiefs who still had multiple wives, and who had not publicly converted to Christianity by regular church attendance. The Holy Family Mission on the Blackfeet Reservation built by 1890 baptized 665 Indians, conducted 65 marriages, and 127 confirmations, but the Blackfeet children were not content to sit in classrooms and recite prayers continuously day and night as the priests recorded on New Years Day 1892,"several of our pupils were taken from school by their parents. I complained to the agent. He, Protestant, though he be, showed more than mere words of sympathy. Not only did he send his police to apprehend the deserters, but he also held back the parent's requisitions for provisions from the Government. Thanks to such measures these escapades almost ceased entirely."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.24-25

Water is the last of the Blackfeet hopes for a good life in America

Mark Twain was invited to a dinner honoring Senator Clark of Montana in 1889 when Clark became the first United States Senator from the newly admitted State of Montana into the Union. He wrote, "This was the first time I had ever seen men get down in the gutter and frankly worship dollars and their possessors. I had never before heard men worship the dollar with their mouths, or seen them on their knees in the act. Clark of Montana is said to have bought legislatures and judges as other men buy food and raiment. By his example he has so excused and so sweetened corruption that in Montana, it no longer has an offensive smell." The State of Montana Legislature and the Congress of the United States had agreed as a condition of statehood, that state jurisdiction would not apply to Indian land or person; but Senator Clark sent up bills in Congress to rob the remaining Blackfeet treaty lands by starving the Indians into tribal land cessions until the Indians have little usable land left on the reservation due to encroachment by border-whites enabled by the likes of Senator Clark and the Governors of Montana, until all we, the Blackfeet Treaty Indians, have left is our clean waters, now under attack by another federal law passed by Congress is dragging free treaty Indians into Montana cattlemen's courts, judges, and juries to settle our water rights. The Government's plan for the Blackfeet Indians is the 1980 Bureau of Indian Affairs pipeline project to build water lines to "dry" Blackfeet land allotments checker-boarding void "wet" patent-in-fee lands of white men, who robbed water holes and water courses in the massive forced patents land frauds of hundreds of Blackfeet land allotments amounting to 529,000 acres. The Government plan would cost $50 million dollars to construct pipelines to Blackfeet cattle ranchers which would take 50 years to complete. Of course, we will all be dead by then. Is that the ultimate plan for the Indians?  Bob Juneau Sr.

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK-BLACKFEET RESERVATION BOTTLED WATER?

By the year 2030 all glaciers in Glacier National Park will be melted due to climate change. The Blackfeet Indian Reservation is located downstream from Glacier Park run-off from melting glaciers and snow pack, mountain streams cross reservation borders to bring clean, cold, drinking quality water to you! Aquifers underlay the reservation, an ocean of clean drinking quality water is available. Do you have an idea and business plan for bottled water marketing of Blackfeet Water Resources?
SEE: MS. SALLY JEWEL-PROPRIETRESS
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.GOV
FEDERAL TRUSTEE OF BLACKFEET WATER RESOURCES
Please purchase Blackfeet water, help out an economically oppressed people, help Indians pay bills, living in cars last winter, need cash quick, bad winter coming, muskrats left town, no shoes, no coats, no communists, we capitalists, come quick, water go fast downstream, rich man get glacier water for mixed drinks, last glacier water in lower U.S. and Alaska glaciers melting fast, hot sun, come quick.
Bob Juneau Sr., Purveyor of Blackfeet Water Resources

WORLD NEEDS WATER-INDIANS NEED CASH-LETS MAKE A DEAL

Shakespeare said, "The evil men do, lives after them." The Blackfeet Indians have parasites called border-whites who have robbed Blackfeet land, water, oil, gold, cattle industry, and our special treaty rights to own all of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. There is an ocean of clean water aquifers underlying the reservation and clean mountain streams flowing from the east slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The Montana Legislature enacted legal anomaly "reservation/counties" under state laws within reservation boundaries to cover-up their massive land frauds and called it Glacier County. That is how the border-white man got on the reservation, an " illegal emigrant from the states" as Agent Wright reported in 1867 on confederate gold miners in Blackfoot Treaty Lands. Today it is the "blue-gold" of clean water supplies that attracts the parasites on the Indians. The Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewel, is a billionaire, so I assume as trustee of Blackfeet water supplies that she would know the market value of the drinking quality water supplies, and she also has the authority to hold bids on the lease of Blackfeet water supplies for corporations to pay market value in the billions of dollars to an impoverished Indian people, as is her sworn duty in the federal-Indian trusteeship. The issue is breaking economic apartheid of border-whites over the Blackfeet Indians on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The reservation/county is simply a system of economic apartheid of border-whites sucking the economic lifeblood of the Indians operating under state law that is itself outlawed under the 1896 Agreement between the Blackfeet Indians and the United States Congress. The state-tribal water compact forced on the Indians by western states Congressmen is designed to subject treaty Indians to the jurisdiction of state courts-the Indians are prohibited from marketing their water supplies off-reservation, a violation of Constitutional Rights to participate in the Free-Market Economy of the world nations. Please help the Blackfeet Indians-protest to the Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel, who would never allow such market restrictions on her businesses, but then she is white and a market free business-person in the freest country in the world, and we, the Blackfeet Indians, are the 100 year Indian landowners victims of border-whites, and a merciless bureaucracy; the bureaucracy that she controls and administers. The Blackfeet people need cash and the world needs clean water, lets make a deal!  Bob Juneau Sr. a Blackfeet landowner with reserved water rights on the Blackfeet Reservation. Call me-406-493-0894, or E-Mail at blkftpatriot@yahoo.com