Supreme Court Decisions and the "Personal Responsibility and Work Responsibility Act of 1996" have closed the doors to blaming the Federal Government's "Trust Responsibility" for poor tribal council decisions which result in loss of tribal minerals due to stupidity in negotiating oil leases etc. The tribal welfare door is closing also due to President Clinton's Welfare Act in making parents the "agent" in helping their children get off welfare by their own efforts in employment or education. The Supreme Court held that it isn't the Government who is responsible for stupid tribal council decisions in economic opportunities in forming business enterprises with outside corporations. It is now "open-season" on stupid tribal council members in making poor decisions on developing tribal economic development. The Montana Legislature made some stupid decisions in the past decades in selling all of the state's hydro-electric facilities to a corporation for "a piece of paper" that is "stock shares" in the company they sold the public utilities to in the delusion it was somehow more profitable for state citizens not to own their own facilities. The Federal Government approved the deal and that was that. The Salish/Kootnai Tribes "own" their own hydro-electric facility-"Kerr Dam". Do I have to say they have an intelligent council who protect their people? The Blackfeet tribal councils under Chairman Old Person had unlimited faith in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which had "raised" Earl to be their government puppet, and he was good at it! Nobody could say anything bad about the BIA and keep their jobs at the tribal office, so the tribe lost water rights, hydro-electric power sites, and all the tribal waters in the western mountain lands of the reservation just by doing nothing to upset the "bureau" which is the rogue government agency that is complicit in robbery and mass murders of hundreds Blackfeet Indian landowners a century ago just by in issuing forged "fee patents" of Blackfeet allotted lands and allowing border-whites in Cut Bank, Valier and Conrad to murder and rob Indians at will on the reservation. The Government and Supreme Court are closing the doors to providing justice for poor and ignorant Indian pleas to get their stolen lands returned to their heirs. Tribal leaders do not even use the 1896 Agreement that give us tremendous treaty-powers over our remaining trust lands [900,000 acres of allotted Blackfeet lands and 100,000 acres of tribal lands] all the while pursuing our current land and oil claims before Congress closes that door forever in the state-tribal water compact approved by Chairman Old Person and Vice-Chair Sassy Running Crane, but it was so rotten the current tribal council has sent a message to Congress to hold it up for further review. There is a small window of opportunity to present our Forced Patents Claims as part of the Blackfeet water compact which is mandated by Congress to provide "Institutional Equity" for all parties to the compact to be treated equally in the negotiations. I figure with Earl Old Person gone, we can do our due diligence on our forced fee patents claims without being thrown out of the tribal office. I have the answers but I don't have the political powers for positive change as I have been labeled as a trouble-maker when all I ever did was to try to protect the interests of Blackfeet who needed help. Tribal elders Joe Bear Medicine and Willie Running Crane asked me to help the people with their "land problems" in 1980 and I uncovered an "incest ridden" chief at the bottom of it all, who was blackmailed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to hide their complicity in Blackfeet genocides and massive land frauds that brought "Slow Death Measures" genocide to the Indians. There are always undercover perverted alliances like Chief Old Person, BIA, white-man cover-up conspiracy.
Bob Juneau Sr.
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