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.