No claims were
filed for any future uses of the Milk
River Montana
and downstream water users. It is a national disgrace to reduce the water
rights claims of the tribes and Indian farmers and ranchers; for the political goals
of the Justice Department over the Indians.”
Chairman Old
Person of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council protested the reduction of
tribal water rights, “The tribe charges that the Department of Justice seeks to
drastically reduce the Blackfeet water rights for the benefit of the Secretary
of the Interior, whose interests are diametrically opposed to the Tribe’s
interests, but whom the Department of Justice seeks to represent while
simultaneously forcing the Interior Department’s [trusteeship] representation
on the Blackfeet Tribe; and to force upon the Blackfeet Tribe the jurisdiction
of the [courts] of the State of Montana .
The Blackfeet Tribe rejects out of hand both of those objectives. Their plan is
to give the Bureau of Indian Affairs a contract for “new” land classification
“studies” which contract is fraudulent, meant only to reduce the tribe’s water
rights, and is part of Secretary Watt’s Indian “termination” policy.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.163-164
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.163-164
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