Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.160-161

We will not take any money, will not ask anything of the one-eighth, but would like to split 50-50 with you all that we make over and above that. It is ridiculous that you have government personnel here and they do nothing for you. That is one of the things I forgot to mention, the resort possibilities on the reservation. Just to get into the tourist possibility that could grow on this reservation is this. I believe there could be operated quite successfully a large tourist type of development in the mountains. Theodore Last Star was telling me about his annual show and that could all be worked into a gigantic tourist attraction. That in conjunction with your large resort. I understand the Blackfeet Indian Tribe has unlimited power to break away from the federal government under it’s treaties etc. That they can more or less write their own ticket as to eventually becoming independent probably with one exception that they cannot sell the land and it cannot be mortgaged. It is ridiculous that you have government personnel here and they do nothing.”  

Give their land back


President Nixon’s Indian Self-Determination Policy was merely political theatre by the executive branch to stifle national Indian protests of Indian land frauds and treaty violations. The tribal economy and private-property of the Indians was pirated by white men on the reservation but Nixon’s self-determination policy did not transfer titles back to the Indian owners. Glacier and Pondera Counties political apartheid territory and border-white corporate economic-apartheid on Blackfeet Indian land and resources; on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation has continued unabated.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.160-161 

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