In 1926 after the murders of 149 Blackfeet allotted landowners by Glacier County border-whites for their grazing and irrigated farm lands and the newly discovered oil fields, the Blackfeet Chiefs Wolf Plume and Young Man Chief were thrown in the agency jail when they attempted to board the train at Browning, so Robert Hamilton, tribal interpreter and lawyer brought the news of Indian genocide to the "Joint Commission of Congress to Investigate Indian Affairs." Bob Hamilton was the great Blackfeet lawyer who was the Blackfeet patriot who used his education to help his people, testifying in 1926 to Congress, "About 85% of the reservation population is in a most deplorable situation, the Indians have no more cattle or horses to sell, those who own horses to work have engaged themselves during the summer on the Blackfeet Irrigation Canals, where they could scarcely make a living owing to the fact they receive very small wages, and the proceeds of a days labor go to the support of their families, and feed for their horses, and get into debt at the commissary of the Federal Reclamation Service because of high prices. Therefore, it is a physical impossibility for many of the Indians to earn enough to lay abundant supplies in store for the winter when blizzards bring forty degree below zero weather for eight months with killing frosts and blizzards in July and August making farming impossible even for professional farmers to get a crop. The snow is so deep no one is able to haul firewood to sell, while Indian prisoners are kept busy sawing and cutting wood to keep the agency employees warm while the Indians freeze in log shacks. The post trader Joe Sherburne buys hay cheap in the summer while rations are cut so the Indians get into debt at the store, and their lands are foreclosed in Glacier County for taxes and liens of white men. There is no wild game or fish to be had and during the winters of 1913 and 1921 one hundred and forty nine Indians of all ages died from malnutrition related diseases caused by lack of food. Joe Sherburne has 313 Blackfeet trust land allotments while the Glacier County ranchers have over a thousand trust patents of 312,250 acres of prime reservation grazing and irrigated farm lands constructed with $942,000 of Blackfeet land cession funds for white ranchers and farmers." Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, a Texan, denied all allegations of Blackfeet deaths and loss of trust property that has reached 529,000 acres, and the Glacier County white supremacists are coming back for our allotted water resources draining valuable drinking water right from under our feet. The town of Browning still has that seedy and neglected look as the modern day Blackfeet Indians die from generational poverty and malnutrition related diseases caused by genocides of our ancestors and usurpation of the reservation by white-apartheid Glacier and Pondera County Governments within the exterior boundaries of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The "dirty" people are the white supremacists in Glacier County and their allies Blackfeet/Cree county commissioners who let lie the dirty history of whites robbing Indians with the complicity of the U.S. Government. What good is Indian commissioners for white supremacy? I hope the tribal council is looking out for allotted landowners since the tribal council included us in the state-tribal water compact, in which we, the Blackfeet landowners, have to get the approval of white supremacists in Cut Bank, Valier, Conrad, and Choteau for bottled water marketing of our own water reserved in the treaty exclusively for the Blackfeet Indians on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Why!
I am part-owner of 1,000 acres of allotted trust land with a river running through it, call (406) 493-0894 for bottled water plants bottling pure, clean, fresh glacial waters from Glacier National Park!!
Bob Juneau Sr. 1145 34th street, apt. # 110, Missoula, Mt. 59801 E-Mail-blkft patriot @ yahoo.com.
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