What is "economic-apartheid" and how did the white man get on the Indian reservations? All Indian treaties ban the white man from occupying Indian treaty lands as the purpose of signing treaties! Why else would the Indians sign any treaty with white men except to get rid of them? Montana border-whites murdered 6,000 out of the Blackfeet population of 7,800. Yes, it was murders, rapes, and scalping of Blackfoot women, children, and old people while the warriors were away on a winter buffalo hunt. The Montana Militia drunkards killed 164 of peaceful Chief Heavy Runner's band in the winter of 1869, robbing 7,800 buffalo robes, 1,300 horses, and a supply of buffalo meat for winter provisions. It was always plunder and pillaging that border-whites excelled at including Texas Cattle Kings and Confederate soldiers loyal to the "Confederate States of America" while the Blackfeet Tribe had a treaty of peace, friendship, and amity with the "United States of America." The U.S. is bound by treaty to protect the Indians from depredations of border-whites, but the U.S. Army joined in the slaughter of the Indians. At the end of the physical genocide period, 1860-1890, there were only 1,811 Blackfeet left alive out of a population of 7,800 at white contact in 1863. A new system of genocide had to replace the massacre, famine, small-pox, whiskey trade, and removals to smaller tracts of land as border-whites encroached on Indian reservations. National Indian Organizations were set up by influential and powerful white men and women who saved the Indians from genocide of border-whites and got laws passed to stop the massive Indian land frauds by border-whites, but no Indian land has been restored to Indian ownership, therefore Indians suffer economic-apartheid. The State of Montana incorporated stolen Blackfeet land allotments into state jurisdiction in county courts by tax deeds, although the definition of Indian trust land is "tax-free lands of Indians" inalienable by states. The newly concocted white-apartheid system incorporated "reservation/county" forms of state government grafted onto the reservation as exclusive white territories which denied the Indian voting rights in establishing Glacier and Pondera Counties on stolen Blackfeet property owned by Indians and held under the 1896 Agreement/Article Five, which also guaranteed the continued success of the self-reliant Blackfeet Cattle Industry made of 500 Blackfeet cattle ranchers, 25,000 cattle and a self sufficient tribal economy. The reservation cattle industry usurped by border-whites produces $100 million annually in sales of cows and crops on the stolen Blackfeet land allotments and the Glacier County "oil" men robbed a billion dollars worth of oil, and are now in the process of stealing our water rights with the help of western congressmen who make the laws we all must live under, even a system of economic-apartheid in America. In other words, greed trumps the sacred word of America!
Bob Juneau Sr.
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