Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The Blackfeet people have been pauperized and forgotten like a politician's campaign promise of a better life-next time-next year until there is nothing left to promise. The book brings the past and future into focus, as the land frauds described in the book put an end to the promise of America that the United States would make a place for the Indian people where they could live in peace and prosperity on the reservation. There is little hope that Congress or the President can or will help the Indian crime victims since it has been a 100 years for the Blackfeet Indians awaiting the justice that most property owners take for granted when their private-property is stolen. Last winter the poverty stricken Blackfeet had to live in their cars during a winter snow storm because the power company shut off their electricity because they could not pay their bills. Tribal politicians did not provide help either during the emergency, in fact they caused the emergency by a feud among the tribal council, but tribal courts are administered by the tribal council and tribal judges are hired and fired by tribal politicians. Imagine President Nixon firing the supreme court or defying congress to avoid prosecution. In 1935 the Blackfeet Indians adopted a tribal constitution drawn up by Interior Dept. lawyers which lacked a separation of powers clause, and provided a preference clause for tribal council members in leasing tribal lands and oil fields. Immediate corruption in tribal government resulted and lasted to now and into the future and in return tribal politicians do not prosecute the land frauds led by the Indian Bureau in 1912-1935. Does that remind you of the puppets installed by America in Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, and by the Reagan Administration in South America? Right behind the puppets are American corporations exploiting the resources and people of those nations. Indian reservations are among the most exploited people and nations in the world. Genocide in all of its forms has been practiced on the Indians in federal and state government policies of extermination, assimilation, removal, and self-determination. A class of tribal political families developed under these policies are controlled by the federal trustees. The hundreds of tribes and hundreds of thousands of Indian landowners have unresolved land claims dating back to the 1700's in the case of the Oneida Tribes who are pursuing ancient land claims against the state of New York. The Blackfeet Indians have unresolved allotted land claims, that is lands owned by individual Indians stolen by border-whites and led by corrupt Indian Bureau officers with the tacit approval of Congress. The root of Indian poverty in America are these unresolved Indian land claims. For instance, on the Blackfeet Reservation, border-whites robbed the choice lands and transplanted a white-apartheid territory on the stolen Blackfeet lands labeled a "reservation/county" which was created by the Montana Legislature in 1919 without the consent of the Indians who were not allowed to vote in state elections. In fact the Indians were not American citizens until 1924, and were considered to be foreign nations with treaty relationships with the United States. The "reservation/counties" and whites profit $850,000,000 annually on the stolen Indian land allotments on the Blackfeet Reservation. The Crow Indians and other tribes in Montana have land frauds similar to the Blackfeet land frauds. The Indian Treaty is our Bill of Rights spelling out our special treaty rights negotiated with the federal government exclusive of state law and state jurisdiction. The book, The Sacred buffalo Vision, follows the sordid history of the Blackfeet Tribe and State of Montana, and details the role of the Executive branch and Congress' role in promoting the massive land frauds of an estimated 100,000,000 acres of private-property of individual Indian property owners still unresolved by Congress or the Supreme Court and stone-walled by various presidents throughout history. We, the individual Indian landowners cannot reach President Obama or Congress because we lack political power to be heard. In 1980 President Reagan stone-walled our claims while he cut federal treaty obligation funds to tribal governments to shut up tribal chairmen across the country. Many deaths resulted but who cares? I have brought the Blackfeet land claims to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in 1980, 2001, and 2007 with no resolution of our claims. Our Blackfeet Chiefs brought the claims to Congress since 1912 the date of the allotment of the Blackfeet Reservation which exposed individual illiterate Indians to the racketeering of the border-whites and Indian Bureau and corporations. Justice should begin at home before exporting the "blessings" of democracy to foreign lands lest Congress be exposed as "stooges" shilling for the corporations profits. President Bush's base and Vice-President Cheney profited trillions of dollars in the Iraq War and both are "chicken-hawks" who cut and run from serving in Vietnam. I am a veteran of the Vietnam War, as my son is a Veteran of Desert Storm and my father was a rifleman with General Patton in Europe liberating Europeans and the Jewish holocaust victims. I am Bob Juneau, Sr. a loyal Blackfeet/American proven by my service, but where is America's loyalty to Indians? Why do only the rich in America get justice?

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