CONFEDERATE PLANTATIONS ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS-A SYSTEM OF "ECONOMIC-APARTHEID"

 17,000 unresolved Indian land claims to 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands were tossed out by President Reagan in 1983 including gold, oil, uranium, coal, timber, and water resources owned by Indians. President Reagan cut Indian treaty obligation funds by 40% to stop national Indian protests of treaty violations and land frauds causing deaths on the reservations and cowing Indian politicians. I was in Washington D.C. pressing to settle my grandmother's and other's unresolved Indian Money Damage Claims. In Oversight Hearings Before the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, 96th Cong., 1st Sess. 3-13-1979 the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Forrest Gerard, testified that "Litigation was thought inappropriate in these cases because the [U.S.] government would have to sue itself on behalf of all Indian claimants." In 1982 Public Law 96-217, Section 2 was passed by Congress to mandate the Secretary of the Interior to either litigate the remaining 17,000 Indian Money Damage Claims or to send the claims to Congress for legislative resolutions restoring Indian titles. Senator Cohen chairman of the committee stated, "If the Reagan Administration is allowed to succeed in their plan the remainder of 17,000 Indian claims covering 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands, minerals, and water rights are to be willed out of existence. It is clear from the legislative history that Congress wanted assistance from the Interior Dept. in the form of carefully considered legislative proposals designed to bring about a swift, yet equitable conclusion to the 2415 Indian Claims Program. It is also clear that from stipulated facts that the Reagan administration has not complied with P.L. 96-217, Section 2." In 1982 the Covelo Indian Community sued James Watt, Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States, William French Smith on behalf of all Indians with unresolved Indian Money Damage Claims. The Defendants argued that the executive's discretion as to whether or not to propose legislation can never be constitutionally limited in light of Article ll, Section 3. The Covelo Indian Community successfully argued in federal court that "If the executive's discretion was thereby restricted, it was done by his own hand and is therefore beyond a charge of constitutional infirmity." President Reagan argued that the preceding century of unresolved Indian land claims constituted a charge of "Laches" meaning that too much time had passed prior to the Indian's filing Indian land claims but it was established that "foot-dragging" in the Indian cases was done by federal officials. Secretary of the Interior James Watt labeled Indian reservations examples of "failed socialism" while President Reagan was criticized by Soviet dictators and South African white supremacist leaders for maintaining "gulags" on Indian reservations. Today the border-whites are after the pure water supplies owned by Indians on reservations worth billions of dollars on global bottled water markets leading to further frauds of  Indian property managed by federal trustees. The current state-tribal water compacts do not address past Indian claims or any reservation of water for Indian landowners for bottled water plants or any other water projects for Indian landowners. The border-whites will drain the spring water from under Indian treaty lands under "rule of capture" where the biggest pump wins the water wars. The Glacier County border-whites robbed a billion dollars in oil profits from us! We live in poverty caused by a century of illegal occupation by economic-parasites called border-whites who stole our land, oil, timber, cattle industry and now our reserved water rights.I have spent my entire adult life since 1980 to fight for my grandma's land robbed by border-whites leaving them in poverty that I share today, and my descendants will share forever. What could you do if government officials robbed your property? Please lobby President Obama and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell for resolution of 17,000 Indian Money Damage Claims to 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands.  Bob Juneau Sr.