Friday, January 23, 2015

THE BLACKFEET NATION NEEDS A WORD OF SUPPORT FROM WORLD NATIONS

The political history of the Blackfeet Nation and the United States has been the Indians trying get the Congress to live up to treaty obligations by exposing venal western congressmen providing legal loopholes that allow corporate interests to "usurp" Indian property owners treaty rights and resources. The Blackfeet people were slaughtered and starved into tribal land cessions in 1881, 1887, and 1896 which left a reservation of 1.5 million acres for the tribe to rebuild their shattered lifestyle centered on the buffalo economy. By 1893 the Blackfeet people had overcome 30 years of massacre, starvation, small-pox and whiskey trade by Montana border-whites genocides that depopulated the tribe from 7,800 in 1860 to 1,811 Blackfeet left alive in 1890 and developed a cattle industry that put the Indian ranchers in complete economic self-sufficiency by 1893, and their success is guaranteed in the 1896 Agreement/Article Five. Here is where the corporate-congress axis of fraud or just plain criminals put into play the law, allotment act, that broke up tribal lands into land allotments of 400 acres to each Indian which allowed the criminals to target individual Indians land allotments in the interests of the "Indian ring" a criminal conspiracy. Mrs. Mabel Monroe Bond, a Blackfoot woman was robbed as a child by Joe Sherburne, agency trader, of her land allotment which is adjacent to the eastern entrance to Glacier Park, an exceptionally valuable piece of real estate where hotels and businesses cater to two million tourists generating $160,000,000 each summer. She wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier many times informing him of the conspiracy, and telling him of the "Tammany Hall" clique on the reservation of Joe Sherburne, agency trader, Swift & Armor, Great Northern Railway, and the county attorney and Indian agent's land frauds on the Indians. The Blackfeet Indian land claims are to recover 1,400 of these 400 acre allotments of land on the reservation and the billions of dollars generated from oil wells and grazing lands stolen by white men and corporations. Today, in 2015, the state of Montana, border-whites, and the Federal Reclamation Service are in the process of usurping Blackfeet water resources in a state-tribal water compact that will end the land claims of the dispossessed heirs of the original allottees, and give up title and water rights to the void patent-in-fee white landowners living on the stolen allotments of the original land frauds which are the subject of the unresolved Indian claims we are still working after a century. It would help the Indians for foreign leaders and people to speak up for the Indians in world courts and in the United Nations Genocide Convention. Please give us a voice, who cannot speak freely without being attacked by the white-supremacists and corporations. Bob Juneau Sr.

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