JUNE 10, 1896 IS BLACKFEET INDEPENDENCE DAY!

The 1896 Agreement was ratified by Congress June 10, 1896 (29 Stat. 355) reserving the entire reservation for the Blackfeet Indians, prohibiting state law on the reservation, and freeing the Indians from a history of attempted genocide by Montana border-whites campaigns of massacre, starvation of the tribe, small pox outbreaks, whiskey trade and destruction of tribal buffalo herds. The population of the Blackfeet Indians dropped from 7,800 in 1860 to just 1,811 Indians left alive in 1890 after 30 years of misery and deaths inflicted by border-whites for Indian land. The Indian wars were really massacres of helpless Blackfeet children, elders, women for $50 bounties paid for Indian scalps at Fort Benton, Montana Territory where drunken scalp dances were held in the local saloon, tossing bloody scalps of Indian women and babies accompanied by southern confederate rebel yells. The Blackfeet Agent recommended transfer of the agency away from Fort Benton due to border-whites killing and scalping the Indians who came to meet with their agent. By 1886 the Blackfeet Indians were starving and had to sign another land cession to the United States of 17 million acres for $1.5 million in cattle and equipment and rations to adapt to the "new buffalo"-cattle ranching. By 1893 the Blackfeet had survived the attempted genocides of Montana border-whites, and developed a tribal cattle industry of 25,000 cattle, 500 cattle ranchers, selling beef and hay to the agency, shipping steers to Chicago stockyards, freighting supplies from Fort Benton, building ranch homes, and small livestock to support the ranch economy. It was a great success! But once again envious border-whites coveted the rich buffalo grasses of the "big-grass country" of the Blackfeet reservation and got a bill in congress to break up the reservation into 3,600 individual land allotments owned by individual Indians who were illiterate in the English language, and who were cheated of their land in state courts off the reservation with the complicity of the Indian agents. The border-whites profit $850 million annually on the reservation lands while the Indians are left with welfare and poverty. Today the reservation is under attack once again by the Montana Legislature and the United States Government who envy the clean, pure waters of the reservation worth billions of dollars annually for bottled water plants and global water markets for a thirsty world. The stolen Blackfeet allotted lands, oil wells, water rights and 529,000 acres of reservation lands are in possession of a handful of border-whites operating without normal legal titles, in an underground reservation economy, which drains the Blackfeet economy to border-whites and the state of Montana. White-rule on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation is the "reservation/county" form of state government, a white-apartheid territory in America! White rule is communism on the reservation. Russian leader Putin who is dominating Ukraine has nothing on the state of Montana. I am a Blackfeet patriot who is still trying to bring justice to my grandma's robbed by whites after a century. We still have a million acres of ground water that is pure drinking water, but the border-whites are draining our water aquifers from underneath our feet while the United States Government holds us from leasing our water to off reservation corporations. Will any nation or just person help us? This will be our death for sure! I wonder if the World Bank or some United Nations Program could lease our water? Bob Juneau Sr.