Indian land claims are a threat to the political balance in Congress: The enormity of the Indian land claims becomes clearer when viewed from the perspective of Conservative Republicans and corporations. The Indians would be rich! In the political structure of Congress it is the rich 1% who attract the votes and protection of Congress. If the Indians got rich, we might get a bill in Congress to right old wrongs and get the white-apartheid reservation/county form of state government removed from sovereign Indian nations. Border-whites are parasites on the Indians, living on stolen Indian property, and have created an underground economy without normal legal title on the reservations. It is economic apartheid and political slavery creating a "prisoner's dilemma" for sovereign Indian land owners, who cannot fight the power of the state, and federal trustee conspiracy. One honest man is worth all the gold in the world to the Americans who suffer poverty wrought by the corporations and the rich owners who have enslaved millions of Americans in minimum wage jobs. President Obama is an honest man. If he weren't honest, the Conservative Republicans would have impeached him by now. The Indians have been cheated of land, gold, uranium, coal, timber, oil, gas, water, cattle ranches, cattle herds, sheep businesses, reservation industry and economy, sovereignty, treaty rights, and the right to self-governance by states, speculators, corporations, and individuals with complicity of the federal government as trustee of Indian land and treaty rights. Bob Juneau, Sr. Blackfeet