"STOLEN FRUITS" OF INDIAN LANDS BY BORDER-WHITES IS ROOT OF TRIBAL POVERTY

The Blackfeet people suffered massacre, famine, small-pox outbreaks, whiskey trade, and encroachment of border-whites on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, as did hundreds of other Indian reservations across the United States. The Blackfeet Chiefs called the patent-in-fee lands of whites, "small pox" for the dots on reservation maps of fee lands resembled the spots on Indian victims who died by the thousands of small pox. The border-whites coveted tribal lands and started Indian wars for the expenditure of federal funds in the state and the removal of the Indians to tiny reservations of land held by treaty with the United States. Border-whites followed the Indians onto the reservation and conducted massive land frauds with complicity of the Secretary of the Interior. The Blackfeet people had no trouble to convert the tribal economy to cattle ranching after the buffalo were destroyed in 1881 except for the border-whites who stole the tribal rations paid for by tribal land cessions to the United States and starved over 600 Indians of all ages who died horrible deaths. The whiskey trade killed another 25% of the tribe, and small-pox outbreaks left the tribe with just 1,811 people after 30 years of attempted genocides of border-whites. By 1893 the Blackfeet made a miraculous recovery by "selling land for a living" and using the proceeds to build a tribal cattle industry that made the Blackfeet self-reliant with 25,000 cattle and 500 tribal cattle ranchers. By 1904 the Blackfeet had few cows left and the millions of dollars of tribal land cession funds gone to agency thieves, and all that was left was the dilapidated agency buildings. By 1922 the border-whites had the Blackfeet Indians bankrupt and had stolen hundreds of Blackfeet land allotments, which are the subject of the century-old unresolved Indian land claims. The Blackfeet Indians have claims in Congress since 1928 to recover our stolen lands and oil fields robbed by oil companies and border-whites amounting to a billion dollars. The border-whites land base has grown to 529,000 acres since the original forced fee patents cases in 1917-1922 and nationwide the Forced Fee Patents Cases cover 100 million acres on Indian reservations across the United States. There are 17,000 Original Indian Allottees who have Indian Money Damage Claims to my estimates of 550 billion dollars, and it is growing by 4% interest each year times the number of years of lost revenues, so my estimate is low. The only way forward is to remove the border-whites by Government Condemnation Payments @ market value of their improvements and restore the Indians to their reservations. Bob Juneau Sr.