Wednesday, November 5, 2014

CHIEF WHITE CALF'S BLACKFEET CLAIMS DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON D.C.

Chief White Calf was in no position to fight for Blackfeet land claims as he told the senators: "In the old days when we made war on the other tribes, and conquered the land you later took away from us; our warriors carried a bow and two quivers full of arrows. But, now a days one can no longer fight with arrows, now a days one must fight with money. If you want me to be able to fight, then fill my quivers with money and then I will be able to fight for my people." The same truth is evident today, as the allotted land claims "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" the claims documents Chief White Calf and tribal elders Joe Bear Medicine and Willie Running Crane were concerned with in 1982, still sit in the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Browning on the Blackfeet Reservation in a big pallet sized box of sealed documents. The Blackfeet Indians do not have the money to research family land documents, titles, or to hire lawyers, economists, or lobby Congress.
The book, "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" was written to raise awareness of existing Indian land claims for ultimate recovery of the private-property of individual Indian landowners and to fill our quivers with money with which to fight for our land claims against the State of Montana and corporations like the railroad, confederate gold miners, Texas cattle kings, oil men, Jim Hill and his son Louis, a father & son pair of robber barons who are parasites on the Indians since the 1800's. The past 100 years of "Slow-Death Measures" genocide were inflicted on the Indians by "looting" Indian property and reducing the Blackfeet Tribe to "apartheid-like squalor" as the border-whites robbed water holes, prime grazing lands, irrigated farm lands, tourism lands, and usurped the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry successfully developed by the Blackfeet cattle ranchers by 1890. The success is guaranteed in the 1896 Agreement/Article Five, which is a treaty right only for the Blackfeet Indians. I have no personal wealth left in my pockets to contribute to the claims. I have been impoverished by the claims as have Chief White Calf and other Indians who fought for Indian land claims in the history of the Blackfeet Tribe. If you purchase a book, then you will get the truth of Indian-white history in Montana from 1863-2014 right from government documents and the oral history of the Blackfeet people, and then you can judge for yourself whether the Indians have a just claim. Please, buy a book and that may be enough to turn the tide toward justice for a class of Americans robbed and left by the roadside for death, but who will not die, nor give up just claims, Bob Juneau SR.

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