BLACKFEET TRIBE DEPENDENT UPON FEDERAL TREATY OBLIGATION FUNDS

Federal sources of funding means "All direct federal funding and/or assistance received by the tribal government and federal institutions such as BIA and IHS. The Blackfeet $158 million in total federal expenditures rank second to the Flathead Tribes with $317 million. Enrollment is 6,970 for Flathead members to 15,640 for enrolled Blackfeet. The Blackfeet service population is 8,831 recipients while the Flathead service population is 4,584 recipients. The Blackfeet service population also includes Rocky Boy Crees and un-enrolled Blackfeet descendants who use Blackfeet tribal programs and IHS programs but are not counted as part of the federal service population which would bring Blackfeet total federal expenditures in line with Flathead at double the current $158 million to $316,000,000 million in total federal expenditures for the Blackfeet reservation. There would be more tribal and federal employment on the Blackfeet Reservation if the tribal government would update the current populations served by the Blackfeet Tribe and Federal programs and agencies. In contrast, the Flathead Tribes count the thousands of expatriate Blackfeet people who have left the reservation permanently and live on the Flathead reservation. Tribal politics and discrimination toward the Crees and un-enrolled Blackfeet Descendants is costing the Blackfeet Tribal Government $158 million in federal funds annually, while at the same time the Blackfeet Tribe, BIA and IHS serve these populations without federal compensation or recognition for no good reason, and which will lead to law suits by these neglected populations at some point in time if these services are withdrawn by the tribe. On the other hand, Glacier and Pondera Counties and the state of Montana get a free ride in reservation expenditures as all state and county funds for public schools, roads, TANF, food stamps, etc. are reimbursed to the county and state by the federal government. Border-whites "own" the reservation economy with hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from cattle, crops, tourism, and federal expenditures bring the gross reservation product to $850,000,000 for white people living on stolen allotted Blackfeet lands and profiting from oil & gas rights robbed from illiterate Blackfeet landowners in 1912-1922 during the allotment period, and that is how the white parasites live off of the welfare state of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation while the "owners" of the reservation, the Blackfeet Indians, live in squalor and poverty. This is white-apartheid on the Blackfeet Reservation. The whites are poised to capture the Blackfeet water resources unless we come up with a plan to market our billions of dollars in drinking quality water "owned" by current Blackfeet landowners. The Blackfeet Water Compact signed by chairman Old Person does not allow off-reservation water marketing unless we get the "permission" of white rednecks in valier and cut bank first, it is an atrocity upon the Blackfeet landowners who might have the brains to sell bottled water globally.
Vote no on the water compact until we get served first before white parasites on the reservation.
 Bob Juneau Sr.