Saturday, February 21, 2015

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.137-138

In 1921, that law for the creation of a county was amended to provide that the voter must also have resided within the limits of the proposed county for at least 6 months prior to the election.
 In 1932, Montana amended its 1889 Constitution to provide that not only must a person be a “citizen” to vote, but in respect to the creation of any levy, debt, or liability, the person must also be a “taxpayer” unless that person had the right to vote at the time of the adoption of the 1889 Constitution.
 In 1937, the Legislature required voter registration lists to be purged after every general election to remove the names of individuals who failed to vote or who voted absent and further required that county clerks cancel any registry card when three qualified registered electors presented an affidavit challenging a voter’s registration.
 Blackfeet Indians were not allowed to vote in the Glacier County and Pondera County election incorporating county governments within the exterior boundaries of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in 1919. Incorporation of state jurisdiction on the Blackfeet allotments by whites was an inside job done by corporations and the agency ring to give the land thefts of Blackfeet Allotments the cloak of respectability of a legal title.

The State of Montana is referred to as the “Mississippi of the north” for its “Jim Crow” laws enacted against the Indians. There has been a history of Montana public school “cleansing” of Indian history curriculum since the days of Robert Hamilton and the Chiefs leading tribal delegations to Congress to protest treaty violations.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.137-138

No comments:

Post a Comment