The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.136

It did not have the prior approval of Congress or the consent of the Indians in violation of the 1790 Indian Trade and Non-Intercourse Acts and the 1896 Agreement. The Indians were not allowed to vote in any of the county elections. It is a prime example of political slavery existent on Indian reservations in the United States where the States and speculators usurped Indian land and tribal sovereignty in complicity with the Interior Department and Montana senators.

The issue of citizenship arises when subjecting treaty Indians to state jurisdiction and county courts for liens and tax deeds on their treaty held property prior to Indian citizenship in 1924. It vexed Glacier County confederate land pirates residing on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in 1919 to justify how state jurisdiction could encroach on the reservation to tax and alienate Blackfeet treaty lands. Prior to 1871 treaty Indians were considered to be members of separate political Indian nations and not part of the body politic of a state or of the United States; as in Article 9 of the original Articles of Confederation and Article 1, section 8, and Article V1, clause 2, of the United States Constitution. The 1855 Treaty designated the Blackfeet Reservation as a separate political territory from the Territory of Montana and from state jurisdiction over the Indians and their private-property. The fraud created “fee” land certificates which the whites foreclosed on in county courts creating “void” patent-in-fee land titles of whites.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.136