The Sacred Buffalo Vision-Roots of economic apartheid on the reservation, pg.10-11

Roots of economic apartheid on the reservation   

In 1864, Confederate soldiers captured by the Union Army were given the choice of surrender or to go up the Missouri River to Montana Territory, and join other Civil War refugees, who were mining for gold in Blackfoot Confederacy lands. The Confederate soldiers discovered gold mines in “Confederate Gulch” east of Helena, the Capital of Montana Territory, placed right in the center of Blackfoot Confederacy lands, held by the Blackfeet Tribe in the 1855 Treaty with the United States.    

The General Indian Allotment Act of 1887 was twisted to the interests of land grabbing speculators according to Senator Teller who said: “The real aim of this bill is to get at the Indian lands and open them up to settlement. The provisions for the apparent benefit of the Indian are but the pretext to get at his lands and occupy them. If this were done in the name of Greed, it would be bad enough; but to do it in the name of Humanity, and under the cloak of an ardent desire to promote the Indian’s welfare by making him like ourselves, whether he will or not, is infinitely worse.”

  The 1864 Organic Act of the Territory of Montana, the Enabling Act opening the way for statehood in 1889, Ordinance No. 1, which was appended to Montana’s 1889 Constitution and Article 1 of the 1972 Montana Constitution; each contain a disclaimer of right and title to Indian lands and acknowledgment that until the title was extinguished by the United States, all Indian lands would remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the United States Congress.

In 1919, the Montana Legislature enacted “reservation/county” governments creating:(1) economic monopoly by whites; (2) political oppression of Indians; (3) racial stereotyping; (4) social retardation; (5) limit higher education opportunities; (6) develop a class of  “white-oriented Indians” trained to oppress fellows; (7) operate under color of law, color of title; (8) alienate Indian titles to private-property of whites; (9) implement “prisoner’s dilemma” state laws over illiterate Indian crime victims; (10) enact “Jim Crow” laws that do not allow Indian citizenship, voting rights, or to hold public office.  

Montana confederates are a class of forcibly repatriated U.S. citizen’s living on Indian reservations on stolen Indian allotments who still today “do not hold with the treaty” and “do not care for U.S. law” and who swore an oath to destroy the Union during the Civil War.  Montana ex-confederates built their political and economic “plantations” on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and called it Glacier and Pondera Counties.  The Confederate slavers would find new life in Montana Territory and transplant ‘white-apartheid plantations’ on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and implement the physical genocide policy of frontier Montana Territory “Indian Extermination Policy.”  

The Blackfeet Indians survived the physical genocide but are under “Slow Death Measures” genocide today, that cause early death by epic tribal poverty.  The Indians remain under economic attack sanctioned by the Interior Department and State of Montana.  The senators and corporations are manipulating the plenary powers of Congress over Indian land and resources through corporate lobbying of members of Congress.