A CENTURY OF OUTRAGE, MURDERS, ROBBERY, AND USURPATION OF BLACKFEET TREATY LANDS

In 1921 the National Indian Memorial Association who are friends of the Blackfeet Indians reported the latest outrage on the Indians. It was a concerted effort by Glacier County Attorney, local white men, the Great Northern Railway, its subsidiary the Park Saddle Horse Company and owners James J. Hill, and his son Louis Hill, Swift & Armor Company, the big meat trust and its subsidiary the Portland Land & Cattle Company, United States Indian Agents F.C. Campbell, H.G. Wilson, and the Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, a Texan, who allowed the Texas Cattle Kings trespass on the Blackfeet Reservation. Joe Sherburne, kingpin of the racketeering was the agency trader, local banker, real estate, insurance, grocery, freight, and all other money-making enterprises on the reservation. This is the so-called "agency ring" a criminal gang operating on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation by starving the Indian landowners to force their signatures on applications for "fee patents" on their [tax-free] trust land allotments, so that the Indian lands may be taxed in county court and tax deeds issued for hundreds of delinquent taxes or liens of white men filed in county court. Protests against the mass starvation of hundreds of the Blackfeet landowners caused by the Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, a Texan who refused to eject illegal Texas cattle herds trespass on the reservation or to enforce any collection of fees or permits from white cattlemen operating illegally on the "big grass country" of the Blackfeet Indians. These land frauds are the modern day "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" which alienated 529,000 acres of prime grazing lands and irrigated farm lands, oil fields that produced over a billion dollars for the border-whites and oil companies. In 1979 Congress held a Hearing on Statute of Limitations Extension of the Pre-1966 Indian Money Damage Claims, and Mr. Forrest Gerard, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, Testified under Oath, That: By the end of summer of 1979 we had uncovered over 4,500 Indian claims, but potential claims continued to arrive and by December of 1970 the number of cases reached a grand total of 9,768, but our search experience leads us to believe that another 5,00 or more claims in the field may not yet be inventoried. The 2415 Indian claims program has affected a significant number of our [white] citizens in this country. In many of these suits we are dealing with regaining Indian trust titles to these Indian lands in which [white] Patent-in-Fee are holding by void titles. A great majority of the thousands of legal heirs to deceased allottees and trust patentees are the dispossessed heirs to an estimated 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands on Indian reservations across the United States. Another problem is the complicity of the Government in these Indian Money Damage Claims presenting the public spectacle of the United States Government suing itself on behalf of its Indian wards. President Reagan decided not only not to litigate the Indian claims, but also refused to send the Indian claims to Congress for resolution by restoring Indian trust land titles and just compensation for over a century of illegal trespass by the State of Montana and Glacier County border-whites. The Blackfeet people have lived in tribal poverty for over a century due to encroachment by border-whites in the Sovereign Blackfeet Nation. Bob Juneau Sr. Please purchase "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" available on Amazon.Com