USURPATION OF THE BLACKFEET CATTLE INDUSTRY BY MONTANA BORDER-WHITES

Inspector C.C. Duncan reported in 1893 that the Blackfeet cattle ranchers had developed a tribal cattle industry consisting of 500 ranchers, 25,000 cattle, construction of ranch homes, barns, fences, and diversion of small streams for watering hay meadows, selling beef to the agency, shipping steers to Chicago Stockyards, and cash for all needful things. The 1896 Agreement/Article Five reserved the entire reservation grazing lands for Blackfeet cattle herds, and exclusive use and occupancy for Blackfeet landowners and cattle ranchers. There is a whole history of the corrupt land frauds labeled as the "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" compiled by the Blackfeet Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in storage in the federal building at the BIA Headquarters on the Blackfeet Reservation, but the documents are not available for the legal heirs of the "Eligible Indian Money Damage Claimants" listed in the Federal Register in 1983. These are the legal heirs of the people on the list of Blackfeet claimants. In 1983 President Reagan tossed out 17,000 Indian Money Damage Claims nationwide to 100 million acres of stolen Indian restricted lands. The State of Montana is in an illegal trespass for over a century on the Blackfeet Reservation and the Montana Legislature enacted Glacier and Pondera Counties in 1919 to provide a void "reservation/county" infrastructure for economic apartheid on exclusive white territories within the reservation borders, and without any consent of the Indians. The United States Indian Agent and border-whites "rustled" the entire 25,000 cattle herd owned by the Blackfeet cattle ranchers and the Indians were broke by 1904. Our original allottees were the Blackfeet cattle ranchers who were awarded special treaty rights to graze on tribal lands and guaranteed continued success by the 1896 Agreement/Article Five. Glacier and Pondera Counties are white-apartheid territories whose land base rests upon stolen Blackfeet land allotments, and whose cattle industry was stolen from the successful Blackfeet cattle industry by 1893, which is now worth a hundred million dollars per year for white cattlemen living on stolen Blackfeet allotted land and running cattle on stolen Blackfeet grass. Corporations and border-whites enjoy the protection of western congressmen to continue the frontier white apartheid economy fueled by stolen Indian lands and resources for over a century. President Reagan blocked class-action lawsuits and Public Law 96-217, Section 2, passed to provide justice for the century old Indian land claims by Congress in 1982. Do not approve the Blackfeet-State of Montana Water Compact until we get our stolen land, cattle herds, pasture lands, ranch equipment and cash [$600 million] returned and the white man sent home to his own plantations in their own-State of Montana. Bob Juneau Sr.