President Grant sent a message to Congress after the Baker Massacre of Chief Heavy Runner's band by the confederate Montana Militia and U.S. Army officers. The Inspector General's Office reported "General DeTrobriand makes a report on the conditions of Indian affairs from which it will be seen that the reports of Indian depredations are exaggerated, and a second report of the date of November 26, from which it appears that the conditions of Indian affairs is by no means alarming." The drunken border-whites and soldiers murdered 164 children, elders, and women in the sneak attack on a peaceful treaty Indian village, and robbed 7,800 buffalo robes and 1,300 horses. President Grant protested to Congress that the treaties were violated by Montana Territory settlers encroaching upon Indian treaty lands; "We have an instance of this in the Territory of Montana, where the recent attack was made, the very capital of the Territory is located upon the land to which the Indian title has never been extinguished and which has never been formally opened by the government for settlement. The principal aim of the Indian Office during the past year has been to inspire the Indian tribe's with the belief that the strictest good faith would be kept with them, and that they should be protected from all unlawful encroachments upon their rights.The treaties made were duly ratified and as I confess myself unable to see how a more complete obligation on the part of the government of the United States could be created by law, I think the Indians may well be pardoned if they regard the failure to carry out the provisions of those treaties as a breach of faith on our part." The Board of Indian Commissioners appointed by President Grant reported, "The history of the border-white man's connection with the Indians is a sickening record of murder, outrage, robbery, and wrongs. They proclaim death to the Indians at all times, incite the lower classes to violence, and protect the perpetration of their darkest deeds and shield them from the justice of their crimes." Border-whites did not end their encroachment onto the reservations in the modern era because the Montana Legislature created a white-apartheid territory on Indian reservations called "reservation/counties" and border-whites continued to exploit the economy of the Indians to this day without any justice for the Indians or settlement of ancient claims or removal of border-whites from the reservations. In 1983 President Reagan sought to extinguish all Indian claims to the allotted lands robbed on the Indian Reservations. The Blackfeet are a Sovereign Indian Tribe since the 1855 Treaty with the United States of America, while the Montana confederates told United States Indian Agent Wright that they "Did not care for U.S. Law" and "Did not hold with the treaty" and would do as they pleased in Montana Territory. The Water Compact signed by Chairman Old Person will award trust title to the Glacier county border-whites for their water rights claims on the Blackfeet Reservation but there is nothing in the compact for the Blackfeet landowners, who own the Blackfeet Reservation. The water compact is forever, so we will be poor forever because the border-whites own title to our stolen lands. I was thrown out of the tribal council water compact by Chairman Old Person for bringing up our claims to recover our stolen allotted lands. The tribal council boycotted Blackfeet landowners for the simple reason that money for their trips and families blinded them to justice for the Blackfeet people.
Bob Juneau Sr.
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