WHITE-APARTHEID SYSTEMS EXIST ON THE INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN AMERICA

I went home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in July and it was apparent our people are getting poorer, and there is no relief in sight because the border-whites suck the wealth from reservation lands and oil wells they robbed in 1919 when the State of Montana enacted "reservation/counties" on stolen Blackfeet land allotments under trusteeship of the United States. It has been over a century since my great-grandmothers were robbed by border-whites in state courts under the "Code of the West" a system of justice which means that no white man will testify against another white man in a case concerning Indians, that no Indians word will be taken against a white man, and no Indian was allowed to hold public office or vote in state elections. This is the "prisoner's dilemma" of the Indian landowners whose lands were stolen in state court for illegal taxes and liens of white men. These are the century old "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" that have been in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee since 1928, brought there by Blackfeet Chiefs. There are 17,000 Indian land claims to 100 million acres of Indian lands on Indian reservations across the United States that remain in possession of border-whites. Who are the border-whites? General Crook, the old Indian fighter in the 1800's called Indian reservations "parcels of land surrounded by thieves." He told a reporter who asked if Indian fighting was hard, and he said, "Yes, Indian fighting is hard, but what is harder is to fight against those who you know are in the right." At the Blackfeet Indian Days it was hard to witness the poverty of our people who still own 1.3 million acres of reservation land next to Glacier Park and produce the best beef steaks on rich buffalo grasses-for the border-whites who robbed these lands in 1919-1921. The town of Browning has deteriorated to a shanty town like the South African townships infected with white-apartheid, and our children have rotted teeth. The Indian Health Service doctors told me they would need kidney transplants by age of 20 if they lived that long. They said it wasn't the big sugar drinks so much as these children are not getting good meals daily, and live in tribal housing slums with no future to look forward to or an education since public schools on the reservation have a 50% drop-out rate. I know this history because I wrote the "Sacred Buffalo Vision" available on Amazon.Com which traces the white-apartheid systems on the reservation and documents the century of attempted genocide of the Blackfeet Indians by Montana border-whites to usurp the Indian land and sovereignty. In 1983 President Reagan tossed out Indian land claims to 100 million acres of reservation land and resources. He was chided by South African and Soviet leaders for robbing the Indians. I was in Washington D.C. at that time meeting with the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on our claims which President Reagan killed off. Today the border-whites are robbing our allotted water rights which are under the federal trusteeship of the Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel, a billionaire developer, who should understand the economic opportunity our position adjacent to Glacier Park's 2.5 million tourists who visit from June through August, but no funds for tourism development are available for the Indians. I am part owner of 1,000 acres of trust land [tax free] with a river running though it, but the federal trustees lease it to white ranchers for $500 for summer grazing of their cattle which come off the range fattened and ready for market. Think of 1.3 million acres of prime grazing lands, pure drinking water supplies and at least 1.3 million acre feet of quality water resources, and what you could do with that property! In the state-tribal water compact the federal trustee, Sally Jewel, Secretary of the Interior inserted a clause giving the Montana border-whites "First Right of Refusal" to take any water development deal that we might make with China or European investors. Who would make a deal with us when these border-whites can take it away from them? Please E-Mail President Obama to settle our century old land claims prior to forcing us to accept this crooked water compact deal. It pains me to witness white supremacist western congressmen protect the National Cattlemen's Association, who are white ranchers that call for abrogation of Indian treaties, and who are the white ranchers and county attorneys who murdered hundreds of Blackfeet landowners in 1919-1921 to force their signatures on applications to sell their lands to whites, but our people died by the hundreds rather than sign these land patents, therefore we have evidence of genocide in these cases. These white supremacists dare to lecture other nations on human rights when white apartheid exists on the Indian reservations across the United States on Indian reservations. In 1983 President Reagan reduced Indian Treaty Obligation Funds by 40% causing many deaths on Indian reservations. He was sending a message to tribal chairman to shut Indian protests down over violations of Indian treaties, and we have had no political support from our own tribal council since then in pursuing our land claims. We are poor because United States Congressmen from western states [border-whites] control our land through a  federal trusteeship vested in the Secretary of the Interior. President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior James Watt, a born again Christian fundamentalist said it don't matter anyhow because the world was slated to end soon by his beliefs. My father fought in World War Two in General Patton's tank corp and made it all the way through Europe, but his greatest shock was the death camps of the Nazi's, but he returned home to the racism and crookedness of Montana border-whites as did I in the Vietnam War, and my son in the Persian Gulf War. We Indians are not war mongers, but we signed a treaty in 1855 of nation to nation treaty partners, which we have kept since then. We are honorable treaty people!
Bob Juneau Sr. a Blackfeet Nation patriot.