The book "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" lets the reader view the actual government documents, hearings, investigations of Congress, and records the oral history of the Blackfeet Indians in protesting the encroachment of border-whites onto the Blackfeet Reservation. There is no question that a conspiracy existed between the federal trustees, the Indian Bureau, border-whites and the Montana Legislature to enact "reservation/counties" units of state government within the exterior boundaries of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, which county land base entirely rests upon stolen Blackfeet property. That is apartheid and usurpation of the sovereign treaty status of the Blackfeet Tribe, and allowed the robbery of Indian property by state courts-white rule over free treaty Indians. My great-grandmother, Mattie Medicine Wolf Woman Bird, who was a full-blood Blackfeet Indian, who married a white man, John Bird, and had 10 children, was a successful business person. Here is how she did it. She sent her oldest son, Sam Bird, to Carlisle Industrial School where he learned to manage a cattle ranch, and received an education comparable to high school level. He also played on the football team with Jim Thorpe, and was captain of the team in 1912. When he returned home, he was able to get a start in the cattle and sheep business, and by 1914 had a herd of 14,000 sheep, and brought his brothers into the business. He chose sheep because they brought cash quickly with lamb and wool sales while cattle took years to get cash. My grandma Margaret Bird was a Haida Indian, who was 10 years old when a small pox outbreak left her parents and family dead on Queen Charlotte Island in Alaska. The Methodist Church outreach kept her in a group home for awhile then sent her to Carlisle where she met and married Sam Bird. She learned to run a household from white farmers in the summers at Carlisle and had chickens, ducks, turkeys, milk cows, vegetable garden, root cellar, and sold milk, cream and butter to the local creamery to get cash. Multiply their success by the hundreds of other Blackfeet cattle ranchers and sheepmen who made a success on the reservation. My grandpa Bird had electricity from batteries in his basement and a windmill to pump water for domestic and watering stock. These are people who made a success of their opportunities. Now comes the border-whites who envied the success of the Indians and used the conspiracy to take everything from the Indians. Local whites once asked my great-grandma if she wanted to go back to the buffalo days, and she told them "go back to what?" It was all gone and they made the best of what they had, and these are their land claims I fight for every day of my life. Both of my great-grandmothers are listed on the Eligible Indian Money Damage Claims. My other grandma is Mary Black Horn Juneau and both were of Chief Heavy Runners band slaughtered in the winter of 1869 by border-whites who lied about Indian depredations to cause the genocide.  Bob Juneau Sr.