BILLION DOLLAR SWINDLE IN BLACKFEET WATER COMPACT

BILLION DOLLAR SWINDLE IN BLACKFEET WATER COMPACT: The 100 year old Blackfeet land frauds have not been settled yet, and here come the federal trustees and the State of Montana to force the Blackfeet Indians into a state-tribal water compact that favors white water users over the owners of reservation water rights. The tiny reservation town of Starr School sits atop an ocean of clean drinking quality water, which water rights are owned by the Blackfeet landowners by treaty and federal law. This water resource is worth billions of dollars in the global water markets. A Texan named T. Boone Pickens is buying up water rights to the Oglalla Aquifer stretching across the Great Plains states and is building a pipeline to Dallas, Texas to market "his" water to thirsty Texans. This water is owned by the United States citizens and sold to farmers for $50 per acre foot, but the farmers have drained the aquifer down to 3,500 feet costing more than they can afford to pump it to the surface. One acre foot contains 325,850 gallons of water, and at $1 per gallon could bring $325,850 for the landowner per acre foot. But, not the Blackfeet Indians, who are prohibited from marketing their water to downstream water users under the proposed state-tribal water compact.The Blackfeet Indians still own 900,000 acres of the 1.5 million acres of the Blackfeet Reservation, but the void Patent-in-Fee white landowners have "Checkerboarded" the reservation. There are at least two patent-in-fee landowners on every township covering the entire reservation by Glacier County jurisdiction. The border-whites can therefore drain the underground aquifer from the Blackfeet allotments while the federal trustee prohibits the Blackfeet Indians from developing their own billion dollar water resources. I was thrown out of a state-tribal-federal water compact meeting for bringing up the Blackfeet land claims and water rights to those stolen lands on the reservation. I could really use some help here to stop this latest atrocity in robbing Blackfeet water rights by the state and federal governments, and border-whites. Any bidders out there for Blackfeet water that is so pure it needs no processing except to fill a bottle of drinking water? This water drains directly from the glaciers in Glacier National Park, which glaciers will be gone in 30 years due to climate change. It will take a private sector water war to bid up the Blackfeet water and to create a reservation-based bottled water plant or food processing and beverage corporations. Chinese Government buyers were in the tribal office a few years ago offering to purchase Blackfeet products including water, beef, oil, gas or any other Blackfeet product. Consider this an opportunity to right an old wrong and make a tremendous profit in the process of saving an innocent people from government corruption. Bob Juneau Sr.