THE SACRED BUFFALO VISION, “SLOW-DEATH” OF INDIANS IN AMERICA

THE SACRED BUFFALO VISION, “SLOW-DEATH” OF INDIANS IN AMERICA

“Slow-Death Measures” Genocide was defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention in 1944: “Any policy undertaken with the intent of bringing about the dissolution and ultimate disappearance of a targeted human group, as such, as well as subjecting a people to conditions of life which, owing to lack of proper housing, clothing, food, hygiene, medical care, excessive work, or physical exertion are likely to result in the debilitation [and] death of individuals; or mutilations and biological experiments imposed for other than curative purposes; deprivation of the means of livelihood by confiscation, looting, curtailment of work, and denial of housing and of supplies otherwise available to the other inhabitants of the territory concerned and to protect any racial, national, linguistic, religious, and political groups threatened by policies aimed at destroying such groups or preventing their preservation and development”

 Author Helen Hunt Jackson wrote “A Century of Dishonor” in 1895 documenting massacres of Indian tribes by the United States Government. Author Angie DeBoo wrote “And Still the Waters Run” to document thousands of murders of Indian landowners for oil rights in the 1930’s, who were mass-murdered by border-whites, the state of Oklahoma, Secretary of the Interior, and major oil corporations.

The Sacred Buffalo Vision is a political-economic history of systematic Blackfeet genocide by the United States Government, corporations and state of Montana physical genocides of Blackfeet people causing tribal populations to drop from 7,800 Blackfeet alive in 1863 at white contact to just 1,811 endangered Blackfeet left alive by 1890.

United States Government Reports say Indian deaths were caused by border-whites massacres of Blackfeet Indian women, children and old age people, small-pox epidemics, the whiskey trade, tribal famine and many removals to smaller reservations.

In the modern era from 1913-1922 hundreds of Blackfeet landowners were starved to death by Montana border-whites, corporations and United States Government Indian Service officials and members of Congress to steal Blackfeet allotted lands, oil, water, timber and minerals. The massive Blackfeet land frauds are called “Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation” and remain unresolved despite treaty, laws, and Indian land claims preserved by Public Law 96-217, Section 2; enacted by Congress in 1982 to provide justice for 17,000 individual Indian land claimants to 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands within reservation boundaries held by treaty and managed under a federal trusteeship. Border-whites own Patent-in-Fee lands stolen from the Indian landowners and live on “reservation/county” white-apartheid state lands on Indian reservations. The unresolved forced patent claims of 17,000 Indian claimants represent white-apartheid on Indian reservations within the United States of America.  

AFRICAN-SLAVERY MORPHS TO CORPORATE SLAVERY FOR ALL AMERICANS

Author Ruth Shinsel’s Article in Mankind Magazine: “John Wilkes Booth: Man To Murderer; The Knights of the Golden Circle had, at first, been organized to uphold the ideal of a great golden empire. An aristocracy, a circle of noblemen, would hold permanent titles to large plantations and numerous slaves. An expanding sphere reaching from the Demerara and the Amazon throughout all the torrid and the more temperate zones of the Americas would be exploited. In the eyes of these feudal-minded knights, all laborers, black, brown, red, yellow, and white; were considered mudsills of society. Improvident, poverty-stricken and vicious, laborers the world over would be immeasurably better off, they contended, and far less vicious if tenderly cared for and forced to labor by kind, wise, and benevolent masters. Considering free society a failure, they called all slavery a “positive good.” President Lincoln expressed a different view, “Most governments have been based on the denial of equal rights of men…ours began by affirming those rights. They said [slave owners] some men are too ignorant and vicious to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant to grow wiser; and all better and happier together. We made the experiment; and the fruit is before us. Free labor has the inspiration of hopes; pure slavery has no hope. The power of hope upon human exertion and happiness is wonderful. The slave master himself has a conception of it; and hence the system of tasks among the slaves. The slave whom you cannot drive with the lash to break seventy-five pounds of hemp in a day, if you will task him to break a hundred and promise him pay for all he does over; he will break you a hundred and fifty. You have substituted hope for the rod. And, yet perhaps it does not occur to you, that to the extent of your gain in the case, you have given up the slave system and adopted the free system of labor. When we were the political slaves of King George and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that ‘all men are created equal’ a self-evident truth; but now that we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim, a self-evident lie.”

Immigrant slaves and corporate plantations transplanted upon your town, U.S.A.

‘Methland’ is a book by Nick Reding: “Within the population of illegals [immigrants] streaming across the border to work in the meatpacking plants throughout the Great Plains, in the fields of the California Central Valley, and in the orchards and orange groves of the Southeast, there was unlimited potential for a narcotic retail and distribution force. It was nationwide, mobile, undocumented, and protean, was almost impossible to track by law enforcement. Five Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations [D.T.O.’s] controlled the manufacture of meth by following the practice of importing precursors into Mexico, thereby achieving business’s holy trinity; dominance of the entire value chain. In one fell swoop, the Mexican drug traffickers directed every aspect of what was now a major international narcotics phenomenon-in the same way that Cargill, Tyson, and ADM were taking control of the food business “from plow to plate” as the marketing slogan went. The link between the agriculture business and meatpacking, and illegal immigration would appear to be self-evident in the connection between meth, immigration and the food & drug industry lobby. Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wanted proof from the DEA that pseudoephedrine was used to make meth. The bill to banish pseudoephedrine imported from China languished in Hatch’s committee for over a year-while the Mexican D.T.O.’s production of crystal meth from pseudoephedrine went unhampered. One-half of the ingredients needed to manufacture pseudoephedrine for cold medicines is imported from China and used by Mexican D.T.O.’s for production of meth. A government study found that 40% of agricultural workers in the United States are here illegally. Immigration and Naturalization Services estimate that one in four meatpacking workers in the Midwest is illegal. As meatpacking plants and big-agriculture employed illegals at abysmally low wages, [$5 per hour], the economies of towns like Ottumwa, Iowa suffered still more. Meantime, DEA had a continued lack of success fighting the meth industry thanks to the powerful Pharmaceutical lobby allowing pseudoephedrine imports from China, a precursor to meth distribution, by allowing illegal Mexican immigrants packing meth into the country for the D.T.O.’s. Illegals take [low-wage] agricultural jobs while distributing meth to immigrant workers and local meth heads. But there is a more subtle connection between meth, immigration, and the food & drug industry. That relationship is driven by the conceit that drugs, like viruses, attack weak hosts. Or, to put it another way, narcotics and poverty-along with the loss of hope and place-mutually reinforce one another. Consider what used to happen in Oelwein, Iowa, before the largest consolidation in the 1980’s and 90’s of almost every niche of the food-production chain. Corn farmers would have bought seed from the local seed company. Once harvested, that corn would be shipped to a small feedlot in order to fatten cattle raised in Nebraska, Wyoming, Florida, or Arizona; or perhaps it would go to a dairy in northern Missouri, a chicken farm in Indiana, or a pork outfit in Kansas. The variables were infinite, and the market was dynamic. The barge, truck, or railroad car that carried the grain was likely independently owned too, as would have been the cows, pigs, and chickens it fed. A few companies would come to control most of the food business. The ability to [politically] influence the governmental decision-making process is something the U.S. food and pharmaceutical corporations share with the five Mexican D.T.O.’s. Unfortunately, the same American illegal immigration policy that provides a low-wage workforce ideal for the meat-packers, food industry, and big-agriculture is what keeps the Mexican D.T.O.’s in business. The [economic] interests of the Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations are aligned with the likes of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Cargill and ADM and all are served by illegal immigration, and unrestricted free trade agreements with China and Mexico.”

Cattle ranchers and cowboys no longer the symbol of freedom and independence

            The book “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser documents the demise of the family ranch economy, once the symbol of American independence; “Ranchers and cowboys have long been the central icons of the American West. Traditionalists have revered them as symbols of freedom and self-reliance. Revisionists have condemned them as racists, economic parasites, and despoilers of the land. The powerful feelings evoked by cattlemen reflect opposing views of our national identity, attempts to sustain old myths or create new ones. There is one indisputable fact, however, about American ranchers; they are rapidly disappearing. Over the last twenty years, about a half million ranchers sold off their cattle and quit the business. Many of the nation’s remaining eight hundred thousand ranchers are faring poorly. They’re taking second jobs. They’re selling cattle at break-even prices or at a loss. The ranchers who are faring the worst run two to three hundred head of cattle, manage the ranch themselves, and live solely on the proceeds. America’s independent cattlemen have truly become an endangered species. The Reagan administration allowed the four largest meatpackers to gain control of the local cattle market. ConAgra, I.B.P., Excel, and National Beef-slaughter about 84% of the nations cattle. Market concentration in the beef industry is now at the highest level since record keeping began in the early twentieth century. ConAgra and Excel operate their own gigantic feedlots, while IBP has private arrangements with some of the biggest ranchers and feeders. Independent ranchers and feedlots now have a hard time figuring out what their cattle are actually worth, let alone finding a buyer for their cattle at the right price. Meatpacking was a trailblazer in recruiting migrant labor. IBP was among the first to recognize that recent migrants would work for lower wages than American citizens-and would be more reluctant to join unions. To sustain the flow of new workers into IBP slaughterhouses, the company has for years dispatched recruiting teams to poor communities throughout the United States. It has recruited refugees and asylum-seekers from Laos and Bosnia. It recruited homeless people living at shelters in New York, New Jersey, California, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. It has hired buses to import these workers from thousands of miles away. IBP runs ads on Mexican radio stations offering jobs in the United States and operates a bus service from rural Mexico to the heartland of America. The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates one-quarter of all meatpacking workers in Iowa and Nebraska are illegal immigrants. Poor workers without health insurance drive up local medical costs, drug dealers prey on recent immigrants, and the large transient population brings more crime. McDonalds, a fast food corporation, relies on dairy cattle for its hamburger supplies, but worn-out dairy cattle are the animals most likely to be diseased and riddled with antibiotic residues. The Reagan and Bush administrations cut spending on public health measures and staffed the U.S. Department of Agriculture with officials more interested in government deregulation than in food safety. President Reagan’s first Secretary of Agriculture was in the hog business, and his second was President of the American Meat Packers Association. Poorly trained meat inspectors were allowing the shipment of beef contaminated with fecal material, hair, insects, metal shavings, urine and vomit. Cutbacks in federal inspection seemed difficult to justify when hundreds of schoolchildren were made seriously ill by tainted hamburgers in school lunch programs. The cheapest ground beef was not only the most likely to be contaminated with pathogens, but also likely to contain pieces of spinal cord, bone, and gristle left behind by the contraptions that squeeze the last shreds of meat off bones. An NBC news report said the Cattle King Packing Company-the United States Department of Agriculture’s largest supplier of ground beef for school lunches, and also a supplier to Wendy’s fast food corporation-routinely processed cattle that were already dead before arriving at the plant, hid diseased cattle from inspectors and mixed rotten meat that had been returned from customers into packages of hamburger meat, and its facilities were infested with rats and cockroaches. An eleven year old boy became seriously ill after eating a hamburger at his elementary school, as tests confirmed the presence of E. coli. Nevertheless U.S.D.A. Food Programs continued to purchase meat from ConAgra.”         

Teddy Roosevelt unsuccessful in breaking up trusts that enslave modern Americans      

The book ‘The Titanic’ by Wyn Craig Wade documents the sinking of the “unsinkable ship” Titanic, and the aftermath written up in an article in the newspaper, Philadelphia North American, pointing to special privilege ruling over the common man. “Human rights came into conflict with vested property rights on the decks of the Titanic during those hours of darkness and final parting. And the price was paid that wlll ever be paid until the will of nations forbids special privilege from using bodies of men and women as counters in its private profit game. For that and no other is the silent message that seems to us comes from those men and women who lie murdered in the ocean depths.” Author Wyn Craig Wade writes, “The pleasures of the Gilded Age existed for the very few. They rested top heavy on a social structure ready to crumble. Luxury and excess were justified on assumption of limitlessness, both in fuel and in human suffering. This wasn’t fulfillment, but the illusion of fulfillment wrought by the oppression of the lower echelons of society whose labor materialized it. Nostalgic glorifications of this Age of Security and Splendor automatically condone its grave social injustices; and responsibility for these conditions has yet to be owned completely by Anglo-Americans in the late twentieth century. Although the organization of society is beginning to look more equitable, what we have truly managed to redress is only the tip of the iceberg.”

Blackfeet cattle industry destroyed by big-corporations conspiracy with big-government  

The big-meat corporations need pure water and natural grass to fatten cattle since American consumers may no longer eat hamburgers made of ground up cow patties and cow parts in their burgers processed by Cargill, and sold by fast-food corporations like Wendy’s and McDonalds. The additives of antibiotics and hormones, to counter infection of cattle standing ankle deep in cow piss and shit for weeks while awaiting their final demise in the Cargill beef processing plants, until ready to be butchered by meth addicted low-wage locals and illegal immigrants working two eight hour shifts enabled by the 12 hour meth high to withstand freezing, horrid working conditions; sometimes cutting off fingers, and getting stabbed on the production line, or breaking backs for $5.00 per hour. That is an economic system of slow-death corporate slavery.

In contrast, the Indian reservations are mostly unpolluted with clean water supplies and contain rich buffalo grasses to fatten cattle naturally on free-range, grass-fed grazing lands for beef production by Indian cattle ranchers. The Blackfeet Indians were self-reliant cattle ranchers by 1893 with 500 tribal brands, 25,000 cattle, 1.5 million acres of grazing lands, pure water supplies and cash for all needful things.

The Texas Cattle Kings came into Blackfoot Country by 1863 and commenced to murder the Indians and force land cessions that cover the state of Montana, Glacier Park and the Lewis & Clark National Forest; but even that was not enough land to satisfy the greed of the Montana cattlemen, Swift & Armor meat trust, Great Northern Railway and Montana cattle ranchers who bankrupted the Blackfeet Indian ranchers by 1904. Even Chicago Crime boss Al Capone came to the reservation and set up his own bank to join the officials of the government in robbing the Indians. How appropriate! 

The loss of 350,250 acres of reservation lands to border-whites in the forced patents land frauds collapsed the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry, just as the white ranchers are getting crushed by the political and economic power of Cargill and other food corporations taking over the cattle industry they built over the past century.

The Sacred Buffalo Vision is to point to the separation of corporations from the powers of government as much more an important issue than separation of church and state in the constitution. President Lincoln pointed to “money power” as the next threat to the unity of the American nation as a kind of corporate slavery envisioned by the Knights of the Golden Circle, to enslave laborers of all races, white, black, red, yellow and brown. In my opinion, they have done it and we are an enslaved corporate nation! 

 Please read ‘The Sacred Buffalo Vision’ a century of slow-death genocides of the Blackfeet Treaty Indians, 1863-2016, murdered for land and resources by the United States Government politicians in complicity with food and oil corporations and border-whites. Now available for purchase;  @Amazon.Com.

Bob Juneau Sr. A Blackfeet Patriot and Vietnam Agent Orange Veteran.    

         

   

           

THANKSGIVING FOR 150 YEARS OF STARVATION OF INDIAN PEOPLE?

The "death sticks" was a body count of Blackfeet people starved to death during the famine of 1881-1887 requested by Congress to survey the progress of the campaign to force another land cession of 17 million acres of Blackfoot Confederacy lands held by the 1855 Treaty with the United States, a treaty of peace, friendship, and amity duly ratified by Congress. Chief White Calf, Principal Chief of the Blackfeet Tribe was aggrieved to see his people suffering and wanted to know why his people could not get more food promised by the treaty, and why the Indians in Canada receive seeds and rations to live on, and he wants to be treated as the tribes in Canada. United States Indian Agent Allen reported the conditions of the Blackfeet people in 1884, three years into the tribal famine, "The Indians offer themselves to work for food, and where ten are called for fifty will appear, but while there are many ways where the agent could employ them, he is unable to because they must be paid in rations and there are none to spare. The Indians try to plant. For example, a patch of ground was seen where they had cut the ground with an axe, and scratched the ground with their fingers in order to plant some potatoes. None of their ponies are strong enough to break the soil, and what seeds and potatoes were furnished, they immediately ate. Everything about them indicates their poverty. They have not a fur or skins for moccasins and there is nothing in their lodges except for the people themselves. The Chiefs are very desirous that some of them should be allowed to go to Washington to represent their hardships to the Great Father, but their applications to that effect has been denied by the Indian Office on the score there is no money to pay the expenses of their trip. At present there is an abundance of berries, but they will soon be gone, and there will be nothing but meat and flour. In May and June there were times they stripped the trees and ate the inner bark to keep their souls and bodies together. In a very short time the carpenter will be kept busy making burial boxes. The Indians vital forces are so weakened by the famine of the past three years that the winter now approaching will find them unable to endure its severity, and still more dreadful suffering will occur. The Piegans are slowly starving to death, but in order to convince the government that an unnatural and inhuman state of affairs exists here, it would seem necessary that these Indians should break out in open revolt and all die at once. The Texas cattlemen refuse to sell any beef to the agency and provoke the Indians to start a range war. The conduct of affairs here is exceedingly unpleasant and unless matters can be remedied there will probably be bloodshed. The dissatisfaction is constantly on the increase and unless something can be done to alleviate the suffering of these people the employees at the agency will be in danger of losing their lives. Their physical condition is that of a slowly starving people, all of the people being very gaunt and thin, and shockingly emaciated. Scrofula prevails to a great extent among them, aggravated by lack of nourishment and a large number are suffering from consumption. Their systems are so impoverished that very slight hurts develop into serious complications. Of the births and deaths nothing is known by the Department of the Interior who are totally ignorant of the numbers of Indians it pretends to care for and feed. Last month the agency carpenter built 17 coffins while doctor Gillette reported only 6 deaths. Many Indians are buried without coffins and sometimes two Indians are placed in one coffin. The Indians prefer to bury their own dead by tying them in trees or placing them in high hills and the ridges and hills around the agency are dotted with these ghastly objects." In 1881 Father Prando wrote, "The injustice of the white man is the cause of suffering among the Indians. The Blackfeet are sunk in want and misery and in my opinion, they will have trouble getting through the winter without dying of hunger." In 1884 he wrote, " There was so much talk and so much noise in the newspapers about the deplorable conditions of these poor creatures, but till now they received no help. And, this year the effects of the famine are making themselves felt so horribly and the savages are dying rapidly. Each day there is someone dead. Indeed, we can say two-thirds of the tribe are diseased now. What a pity it is to see little boys and girls, with their small faces pale and emaciated, with languid eyes, and at an age when they should be happy, experiencing sorrow and consumption." In the middle of winter the United States Treaty Commissioners arrived in Blackfoot Country, in forty degree below zero weather, stayed a week, and completed a land cession of 17,000,000 acres of Blackfeet Treaty Lands for $1.5 million to be paid in ten annual installments for the purchase of cattle, equipment, supplies, rations, and improvements to their cattle ranches. By 1893 the Blackfeet cattle ranchers had built a self-reliant cattle industry of 500 tribal brands, 25,000 cattle, shipping steers to Chicago Stockyards, building ranch homes, fences, barns, vegetable gardens, and cash for all needful things. By 1904 the Montana border-whites and Blackfeet Agent George Steel robbed the entire Blackfeet cattle herd to build up their herds off the reservation. It is a history of border-whites robbing the Indians in complicity with the United States Government. Today the final blow of permanent poverty is contained in the water compacts awarding the border-whites stolen property and water rights within the reservation boundaries. Psychologist Edwardo Duran wrote, "Most Indians deal with issues of injustice, conquest, dishonored treaties, land thefts, and a common thread that weaves across much of the pain and suffering found in Indian communities in the United States and much of the Western Hemisphere. The common thread image is the concept termed the "soul wound." He states, "If one accepts the terms soul, psyche, myth, dream, and culture as part of being in the world in their particular reality, then one can begin to understand the soul wound. The notion of soul wound is one which is at the core of so much of the suffering of the Indigenous peoples have undergone for centuries." Anthropologist Ruth Hill Useem stated regarding the Indian people's relation with the American Government; (1) That over the years the Indian people can expect no consistency in policies regarding him; (2) That the interests of the dominant society will take precedence over the interests of Indians in any policy decision; (3) That the Indian can do little to affect decisions concerning Indians; (4) That whatever the policy enacted the Indian will be told that such policy is in his best interest; (5) That the stated goals of a policy may be and usually are quite different from the consequences with the goals being more favorable to the Indians than the consequences." Robert J. Hamilton, the great Blackfoot lawyer and interpreter for Blackfeet Chiefs testified before Congress; "In view of the principles enunciated and adopted by your highest judicial tribunals, the fact can not be controverted or questioned that the Blackfeet Indians have been unconstitutionally and unconscionably deprived of their vested rights under the 1855 Treaty by Executive Orders and acts of Congress of 1873 and 1874, and that the Government of the United States is answerable therefor. The property of these people has, as a matter of fact, been confiscated by the United States and diverted to purposes for which there is no warrant under the Constitution, and which upon grounds of good faith and fair dealing can not be defended. Horatio Seymour, a great apostle of democracy, in regard to the treatment of Indians, once said, "Every human being born upon our continent, or who comes here from any quarter of the world, whether savage or civilized, can go to our courts for protection except those who belong to the tribes who once owned this country. The cannibals from the islands of the Pacific, the worst criminals from Europe, Asia, Africa, can appeal to the laws and courts for their rights of person and property, all save but our native Indians, who, above all, should be protected from Wrong." Robert Hamilton testified to Congress that "We strongly protest the opening of any part of our reservation because we know it would be a mistake, therefore we ask the Blackfeet be permitted to hold our lands intact." Chairman Cohen of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs stated in 1983, " On the one hand the Indian claims were originally founded in a breach of contract and a title claim, but the fact that the state has been in wrongful possession of Indian lands for the past 112 years in a trespass against the Indian's interest and therefore lies in tort rather than contract, and is not precluded by the statute of limitations. There are countless Indian people and Indian tribes whose potential claims have not yet been given a fair opportunity to be reviewed in terms of their validity. The remaining question that both Congress and the Executive Branch must face is whether there is continuing exposure to the United States Government in the unresolved Indian claims and violations of tribal sovereignty and the loss of Indian property." The white ranchers are living our lives on our reservations on white-apartheid territories called "reservation/counties" enacted by state legislatures to provide void patent-in-fee titles to border-whites sanctioned by the secretary of the Interior and General Land Office of the United States in approving the fee patents of Indian property. President Reagan rejected two centuries of Indian treaty-making begun with President George Washington and founder Thomas Jefferson. That is why I have spent 35 years fighting for my great-grandmothers lands stolen by white men and the 17,000 individual Indian landowners cited in the Class Action Suit filed in the Covelo Indian Community v. James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, Defendant, who lost in federal court. The Reagan dictatorship stonewalled the Indian claims, still unresolved, but soon to end in the water compact settlements. None of the 17,000 Indian landowners heirs were allowed to testify or to object to the water compacts. The Bureau of Indian Affairs that starved the Indians has completed the genocides by approving neocolonialism and white apartheid on Indian reservations. I no longer believe justice is available for Indians in the United States. That is why I need a sponsor to the United Nations Genocide Convention and to petition the World Criminal Court for justice outside of the United States. The State of Montana is in an illegal trespass and possession of Blackfeet property since 1919. I have all of the evidence needed to win if I can find a lawyer for billions in torts and  claims for 17,000 individual Indian land claims to 100 million acres of stolen Indian property.
   Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

AMERICAN APARTHEID IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

The United Nations Security Council unanimously accepted that "Apartheid is a crime against the conscience and dignity of mankind," refers to genocide and institutionalized discrimination on racial, ethnic, or religious grounds. In South Africa President DeClerk apologized for apartheid after the rebellion of Africans stating, "Apartheid was wrong. I apologize to the millions of South Africans who suffered the unending disruption of forced removals in respect to their homes, businesses, and land and prevented from exercising their full democratic rights in the land of their birth." But, the whites and corporations were allowed to keep their ill gotten gains produced from the stolen lands of the victims and the Africans are in an economic depression once again.
        In the United States there are exclusive white territories planted on Indian reservations called "reservation/counties" enacted by state legislatures to give the border-whites a void title called patent-in-fees on stolen Indian land allotments within reservation boundaries without any consent of the Indians or the prior approval of Congress as required by treaties. The United States Government is complicit in the massive unresolved land frauds of 17,000 individual Indian land allotments covering 100 million acres. The Organic Acts of states all contain "disclaimers" any right or title to any Indian land or jurisdiction over any treaty Indians. Public Law 96-217, section 2 was passed by Congress in 1982 to provide justice for a century of unresolved Indian land claims, but President Reagan refused to follow the rule of law and cancelled the Indian claims.
        South African and Soviet Union leaders taunted President Reagan by stating the United States maintained white apartheid territories on Indian reservations. Imagine that! In the past 35 years I have used my efforts to bring a measure of justice for both of my great-grandmothers robbed by the border-whites on the Blackfeet Reservation who established Glacier and Pondera Counties on stolen Blackfeet lands. I found records of government complicity in the forced fee patents claims and evidence of genocides of hundreds of Blackfeet landowners frozen in the agency jail when they refused to sign the forced patents to sell their lands. while the county officials and whites filed liens on the Indian lands in county courts where the Indians could not defend their property. People think the Indians were backward as President Reagan called Indians in Moscow when Russian students asked about his ill treatment of Indians, but he did not mention the pending Indian land claims. Nobody in the world is fooled by the empty rhetoric of the United States, but who is going to confront the bully of the world. There are treaty protests of the Blackfeet Indians to Congress beginning in 1870 when the Indian women and children were massacred by the United States army instigated by lies of Montana border-whites to force Indian land cessions. We can back up no further with our backs to the Rocky Mountains and Canada on the north, Montana on the south and east, where do we go from here. The United States is in violation of the United Nations Security Council Genocide Convention and the International Criminal Court but we, the Indian victims, cannot reach the United Nations Justice. There are 17,000 original forced patents cases robbing 100 million acres of Indian land by the border-whites and their white apartheid territories called "reservation/counties" on Indian reservations. Congress passed legislation forcing Indian tribes into state courts to settle water rights, and to extinguish all past, present, and future Indian claims, forever in the water compacts. In this way apartheid will be a permanent parasite on the Indians, forever. I welcome any legal assistance to prepare a human rights case to present to the United Nations Genocide Court and the International Criminal Court to prosecute the border-whites and states and corporations who got away with genocide in America. I have the documented evidence, I need the legal help to proceed to international courts since we won in federal courts and in Congress but Reagan struck us down and the water compacts extinguish all of our century old claims. Please read, THE SACRED BUFFALO VISION, available on Amazon.Com a history of genocide of the Blackfeet people. Bob Juneau Sr.

BLACKFEET CHIEF 'BLACKMAILED' TO SUPPRESS LAND CLAIMS

It is true that Blackfeet Chief Earl Old Person is guilty of incest and rape of his sisters child and has two children by her. Blackfeet traditional leaders investigated the charges and she verified it is true that he began raping her while her mother was laying in her casket at a wake in Starr School. I was told by his brother and nephew that during the wake of Earl's sister, that they had to drag Earl off of the child in the next room where his sister lay in her casket, and that Earl came back later that night and raped the child again. Chairman Old Person was known to use his powers as chairman of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to rape impoverished Indian women who came to the tribal office for help in paying electric bills or to purchase food for their children. Earl would force them into sex in order to receive cash assistance from the tribal hardship program. He traveled the nation with his concubines and layed up in Washington D.C. with prostitutes instead of doing tribal business. His incest and rape are known to federal and state law enforcement officials and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials who use him to suppress our land claims. The Cobell Case listed Earl Old Person as a co-plaintiff until they found out he was passing confidential information to his handlers at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior, who are defendants in robbing $3.5 billion from Indian Money Accounts. The Blackfeet Forced Fee Patents cases are part of a nationwide system of white-apartheid on Indian reservations whereby 17,000 individual Indian landowners were robbed by white men and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials. President Carter sent his Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs to testify under oath to Congress that the United States Government was guilty of complicity in the massive forced patents cases covering 100 million acres of Indian land robbed by states and real estate sharks. President Reagan tossed the 17,000 individual Indian land claims in the trash can and stonewalled efforts by Congress to provide justice for the heirs of original Indian landowners robbed by the government. Congress passed Public Law 96-217, Section 2, to provide justice for the 17,000 Indian landowners after a century of injustice, but President Reagan would not comply with the law and the Indian claims remain unresolved today. The Blackfeet Water Compact will "extinguish" all past, present, and future Blackfeet Indian land claims, forever. Chairman Old Person approved the Blackfeet Water Compact which is in Congress right now.  There is no doubt that federal officials have used Chief Old Person to suppress our forced patent claims since they will be defendants in the claims. I talked with the United States Attorney, who told me that, yes, they knew all about the forced patents claims, but had no plans to prosecute the claims despite Public Law 96-217, Section 2, a federal law that orders the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior to either litigate the Indian claims or to prepare legislative proposals to send to Congress to restore stolen Indian property with just compensation to the heirs of original Indian allottees robbed by the United States Government. President Reagan was taunted by South African apartheid government leaders and Communist Russian leaders for maintaining white-apartheid on Indian reservations in the United States. They were and are correct! The stolen Indian land allotments are now called "reservation/counties" by state legislatures to cover up the origins of massive Indian land frauds, and that is how the white man got on Indian reservations. Is this America and Christian values? President Obama has never been requested by Chairman Old Person to restore our stolen lands. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Secretary of the Interior or the United States Attorney General have not requested President Obama to litigate the 17,000 Indian land claims to 100 million acres stolen on Indian reservations across the United States creating white-apartheid land bases on sovereign Indian land. We live in poverty on our own reservations while white ranchers profit from stolen Indian lands. I have written a Blackfeet history of the land frauds, "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" available on Amazon.Com. but very few sales have resulted nor has the media been interested in exposing white-apartheid on Indian reservations in the United States. The world needs to know this sordid history.
Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

$350,000 TRIBAL COUNCIL "CULTURE FUND" UP FOR GRABS

Since the defeat of Earl Old Person on the tribal council his use of the $350,000 culture fund for his personal uses is up for grabs; it was set aside originally for Blackfeet traditional crafts people to organize the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative to sell crafts to Glacier Park tourists. Blackfeet women were the founders of the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative. Ethel B. Arnett, Director of the Works Progress Administration wrote in 1937, "The movement began when a small group of Indian women on the Two Medicine River-Mary Little Bull, Mary Little Plume, Angeline Williamson, Cecile Horn, Nellie Buel, Cecile Tailfeathers, Rose Big Beaver, Margaret Middle Calf, and Nora Spanish were encouraged by Mrs. Jessie Schultz, local welfare official, to make costumes to be sold at the Sun Ceremony encampment. Their experiment turned out well and three other women in Browning-Louise Berry Child, Gertrude No Chief, and Annie Calf Looking were pioneers in the Blackfeet crafts movement that organized local crafts groups, and paved the way for the formation of the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative Society in April, 1937 to encourage Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Culture and Traditions. The $350,000 Blackfeet Culture Fund controlled by the tribal council was supposed to fund self-help efforts of traditional communities to make a living on the sale of crafts to Glacier Park tourists. Mrs. Jessie Donaldson Schultz wrote, "The Indian women come to work laughing always, always cheerful, because they were doing something they could do well. The thought kept coming to my mind, just give them a chance. They can do anything if they have a chance to use the skills they know!" I brought the idea of building a culture center in Browning and St. Mary many times to Chairman Old Person and showed him the statistics of over a million Glacier Park tourists passing through Browning but only stopping at Bob Scrivers Museum, and the Museum of the Plains Indian. Earl paid Bob Scriver $68,000 to do sculptures that should have been done by Blackfeet traditionals. Bob Scriver was a white supremacist who sold sacred bundles to a Canadian museum for over $2,000,000 and wrote racist letters about the "dirty Blackfeet" that are in the Montana Historical Society in Helena. Bob Scriver led the Indian Days Parade for many years at the request of Chief Old Person and was holding sacred bundle openings for his rich friends back east in his teepee and wearing his coonskin cap taught by Chief Old Person. Earl Old Person has sold many sacred bundles for big money he got from museums across the United States and the rest are stored at his ranch at Starr School. Surveys of Glacier Park tourists show they want to experience Blackfeet culture and purchase Blackfeet crafts. There is an opportunity to showcase Blackfeet culture with dance exhibitions if we build a culture center in Browning and St. Mary. There is room across the highway from the hotel/casino to build the culture center where 1,355,000 tourists drive by in July and August, and in St. Mary Village where 957,000 tourists enter the reservation in St. Mary Village. The Old Person era is over and a new era is possible if the traditional people in Starr School, Heart Butte, and Moccasin Flat in Browning band together to do what our ancestors accomplished in 1937, to build a Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative Culture Center. It is time! Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.    

BLACKFEET CRAFTS WORKERS SAVE THE BLACKFEET CHILDREN

In 1934 only 138 Blackfeet families were self-supporting and 747 families had to be assisted through relief and distribution of rations while a whooping cough epidemic and measles killed many children. Jessie Donaldson Schultz, wife of James Willard Schultz, who had remarried after his Blackfoot wife Natahki  passed away. Jessie Schultz was an employee of the Civil Works Administration as a social worker assigned to the Blackfeet Reservation. She reported, "My first visit was to a family of twelve at Starr School. Several of the children were ill and two of the babies had died. So I entered that home with beautiful parents, fine people who had just lost two children. That was the beginning of my welfare work on the Blackfeet Reservation. These people did not want to accept relief. They were so willing to work, to do something they could do to make an income. This was the beginning of our crafts program." The Blackfeet Indians formed a cooperative crafts association, and a board of directors who would examine the craft work to test it for authenticity, perfectly made according to the Blackfoot traditions. When their work was accepted , the women were paid by checks. The crafts were done with native materials-natural dyestuffs, quill work, leather work, bead work, sculpting in wood carving, dolls, and sweet grass sold to tourists at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning and a log building at St. Mary. They set up a little village of teepees with perfect replicas of old time lodges and charged tourists to go through the lodges and see how the Indians lived in the old way." The Blackfeet Indians involved in making a success of the Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Association are Mary Little Bull, Agnes Chief All Over, Judith Sanderville, Leona Sanderville, Maggie Shoo Cat, Julia Iron Pipe, Delores Calf Tail, Millie Hall, Maggie Marceau, Angeline Williamson, Rosie Grant, Nellie Buel, Angeline Wells, Mary Little Plume, Annie Potts, Annie Calf Looking, Maggie Found A Gun, Annie Flat Tail, Rosie Big Beaver, Cecile Tail Feathers,  Louise Berry Child, Nora Spanish, Suzie Red Horn, Albert Racine, Isabell McKay, Stanley Croft, Victor Pepion, Insimaki Yellow Kidney, Cecile Black Boy. I got statistics from Glacier Park tourists that showed 1.355,000 tourists drove past the tribal hotel and casino and did not stop, and 897,000 tourists drove over Logan Pass to enter the reservation at St. Mary Village and spent $85,000,000 in June, July and August. Our ancestors showed us the way to become self-supporting by selling crafts and entertaining tourists! Imagine if we banded together and built Blackfeet Culture Center in Browning and a Culture Center at St. Mary Village, we could end tribal poverty if we "own" the enterprise through the Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Cooperative originated by the above named Blackfeet traditional people. If not we will be corporate slaves of Sayeh or a white owned tourist enterprise dancing for minimum wages like the tribal council did a few years ago. It was a success until the greedy council got their hands in it. I can help to write grants and do the research but only the traditional Blackfeet can lead this effort. I live in Missoula so I have access to a loan program that will give us a loan to do a business plan to get a small business loan to build the culture center. Where is Ed Spotted Eagle? Call me and I will help. (406) 493-0894. Bob Juneau Sr.

HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION CAUSED BY TRIBAL POVERTY

I live in Missoula, a University town, where it seems everyone is happy and content, that is until the poverty statistics revealed the truth of a bad economy. Missoula has the highest suicide rate in Montana, and there are over 500 homeless school children in Missoula Public Schools, and the Missoula food bank is overwhelmed with poor white people who cannot feed their families. I left Browning because I could not get a job because I would not stop investigating the land frauds and tribal chairman Old Person banished me from tribal government employment. I soon became homeless in Browning and I had a young son to care for so I had to leave the reservation. The forced patent claims was our last chance to get our stolen land back with $300 million in compensation for the heirs of the original Blackfeet allottees robbed by white men in Glacier County. That is how the white man got on the reservation by robbing our relatives and we proved it. The water compact signed by chairman Old Person awards the stolen Blackfeet lands to white men and "extinguishes" all past, present, and future Blackfeet claims, FOREVER! The tribal council will receive $15 million per year for 10 years under the water compact from the state of Montana. The Salish-Kootenai tribes get $2.5 billion dollars, Kerr Dam, one half of Flathead Lake, and water for their ranchers and farmers, FOREVER! The Salish-Kootenai tribes had water attorneys, hydrologists, biologists, and historians who proved the tribes owned the water and had been robbed by the state of Montana. The Montana legislators and tribal chairman were laughing on state t.v. at the "one man water department" of the Blackfeet Tribe and their old, broke down NARF attorney, who screamed at the Blackfeet landowners in the water compact meeting-"you don't own any water!" while the tribal council kicked me out of the meeting for bringing up the land frauds. There is no plan to develop Blackfeet cattle ranchers or to help trust landowners to improve their family lands in the water compact. Our children are suffering like the homeless white children in Missoula, but the white children do not own 1.3 million acres like the Blackfeet children do. Chairman Old Person had a $350,000 culture fund to spend on his concubines while our children had no money to spend at Indian Days or to build a tribal culture center where traditional people could enjoy tribal culture and our youth could play basketball in a gym owned by the Blackfeet Tribe. An old lady told Old Person, "you made bums out of all of us" and she would not go into his tribal office because he raped too many young girls on that conference table for a tribal check to pay their electric bill or buy food for their hungry children. The 1896 Agreement banished the white ranchers from the reservation and the tribal council brought them back under the lease and sub-lease policy that leaves out the Blackfeet ranchers to whom the reservation belongs. The Blackfeet cattle ranchers brought the tribe out of a tribal famine caused by white ranchers killing off the buffalo for their cattle herds to graze. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was adopted by the Blackfeet people to reserve tribal grazing lands for Blackfeet ranchers and to market steers to Chicago Stockyards from the herd of 25,000 Blackfeet cattle. today the tribal council allows white ranchers to graze on reserved grazing lands and it is the white ranchers who market 10,000 head of steers fattened on Blackfeet grazing lands. The reservation can graze 55,000 head of cattle and if the "citizenship of cattle" were Blackfeet owned we would be rich overnight by capturing the $67,000,000 profits that white men get each year they graze their "white cattle" on reservation lands, a treaty violation. Hunger and malnutrition will continue until we wise up and organize a Blackfeet cattle ranchers association and Blackfeet landowners association as authorized by the 1896 Agreement and 1934 Indian reorganization Act. I will be over to Browning in November to meet with landowners and ranchers to start the process of getting on our feet by our own efforts by cutting out the white ranchers and their Blackfeet middlemen from robbing our grass and profits that belong to the Blackfeet Indians. Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

GLACIER PARK TOURIST MARKETS PASS BY BLACKFEET TRADITIONAL PEOPLE

The Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Association was organized during the great depression in 1933 designed to produce traditional Blackfeet crafts to sell to Glacier Park tourists, and the Museum of the Plains Indian was built in Browning to provide a place for traditional Blackfeet to sell their crafts in the gift shop and another gift shop at St. Mary Village. 1.3 million tourists passed by the tribal casino last summer and 957,000 tourists came over Logan Pass to enter the reservation at St. Mary Village and spent $85,000,000 for hotel rooms, meals, gas, and souvenirs. A Glacier Park exit survey of tourists showed their only complaints were they did not get to experience Blackfeet culture in their visit. I would suggest the traditional Blackfeet to build a Blackfeet Culture Center At St. Mary Village to capture the millions of dollars tourists want to spend on witnessing Blackfeet culture and purchase genuine Blackfeet crafts. The market is huge! Let us say we got $10 per tourist to pay to watch a cultural show at the Blackfeet Culture Center and 1,000,000 tourists purchased tickets amounting to $10,000,000 for the traditional Blackfeet dancers and crafts people! As soon as Sayeh corporation hears of this they will try to take it away from the traditional people and pay the dancers minimum wage and pocket millions of dollars for tribal council crooks. The Blackfeet Bank loaned $600,000 to the white people in Browning who now dominate the Blackfeet crafts sales, and East Glacier and St. Mary dominate the Glacier Park tourism markets on the reservation. The water compact will bring $150,000,000 to the tribal council, but do you think they will help Blackfeet traditional people to capture their dreams of self-sufficiency without becoming white people? Federal laws protect the designs and artwork of traditional people and the tribal council and white people violate these laws.

Sayeh corporation will enslave traditional people and walk off with the millions of dollars when it is the traditional culture the tourists will pay to see. Joe McKay has been Indian dancing for years at the St. Mary visitors center for tourists, but did he invite traditional Blackfeet? Ed Spotted Eagle has promoted the culture center but the tribal council will not listen until we organize and demand a  share of the water compact money. Call me at (406) 493-0894 and I will help you, I have the research and information.

Bob Juneau Sr.

BLACKFEET LEASE POLICY LOSES $45,849,000 TO WHITE RANCHERS

The history of Blackfeet economic development shows the 1893 Blackfeet cattle industry is the only successful enterprise creating 500 tribal brands [citizenship of cattle] 25,000 cattle, improving cattle ranches with fencing, homes, barns, and selling beef to the agency, shipping steers to Chicago, watering hay meadows with ditches from reservation streams to produce hay for winter feed and cash for all needful things. In the 1896 Agreement/Article Five white ranchers were banished from the reservation and Blackfeet cattle ranchers were awarded a treaty right for "exclusive use and occupancy of reserved grazing lands" [citizenship of cattle] and the United States pledged the continued support of the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry. Blackfeet Chiefs called cattle the "new buffalo" meaning cattle ranching was the new staff of life of the Blackfeet people. For 80 years we have suffered a tribal council regime that is despotic, corrupt, stingy, arbitrary, that destroyed the successful cattle industry and began the corrupt leasing policy we have today. The Blackfeet Constitution "Preference Policy" is the clause elected tribal council members use to lease tribal lands to themselves and sub-lease to white ranchers leaving out Blackfeet ranchers. Blackfeet cattle ranchers do not have equality in leasing tribal grazing lands for their cattle operations, but must instead compete with third-party Blackfeet leasers who sub-lease to white ranchers and they profit from tribal and allotted lands instead of Blackfeet landowners and cattle ranchers. The current leasing system leaves Blackfeet landowners and Blackfeet ranchers out of the reservation economy. White ranchers are a security threat to the wellbeing of the Blackfeet people draining millions of dollars that ought to go to Blackfeet landowners and Blackfeet ranchers. The cost of leasing and sub-leasing to white ranchers is $12 million for the Blackfeet and $45 million for the white ranchers. The tribal council leasing policy and BIA leasing policy are threats to the well being of the Blackfeet people who live in third-world poverty on their own reservation. That is why we need Blackfeet landowners association and Blackfeet cattle ranchers association to elect our own people to the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council and to make the right decisions for our own good not the white man and tribal council. It is the only way to band together and fight back against the corrupt tribal council and BIA who are robbing us of our land and lease income-our only possession. I have all of the research we need to force a change in the lease  policy but who will help us? We need ranchers and landowners to band together to change the lease policy as per the 1896 Agreement banishing white cattle from the reservation on the orders of Chief White Calf. The tribal council and BIA have violated our treaty.
Bob Juneau Sr. Please call me to begin the process of organizing ourselves. (406) 493-0894

POLITICAL ECONOMY HISTORY OF BLACKFEET TRIBAL RESOURCES

POLITICAL ECONOMY HISTORY OF BLACKFEET TRIBAL RESOURCES

                                    By Bob Juneau Sr. September, 2016

BREAKING ECONOMIC APARTHEID ON THE BLACKFEET RESERVATION

Chief White Calf protested to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp in 1890 on trespass of Texas cattle kings on the reservation, “These stock barons are compelled to seek new pastures for their cattle and sheep, and they look with covetous eyes on our land-our only inheritance and our only possession. The past summer we had our reserve fenced, at which we labored faithfully with the hope that we would see the last of hordes of range cattle that continually annoy us, when our hopes were dashed to the ground by the government turning our country into a white man’s cow pasture.”

Inspector Chubbuck argued, “The livestock industry is the one best suited to the natural conditions and inclinations of the people, and if developed along intelligent lines can be made to yield comfortable support to all the people of the tribe to whom the reservation belongs. The reservation could carry 50,000 head of cattle annually, permitting the Indians to market 10,000 head a year. The creeks on the reservation would be capable of irrigating enough grass and hay land to feed 50,000 head if a combination of small ditches to water grass and hay land was developed for winter feed and summer grazing.”

  Chief White Calf protested the Indian Bureau ten cents an acre lease price for Blackfeet grazing lands rated as the best grazing lands in the west. Ten cent lease fees were set by former governor of Montana Dixon appointed to Assistant Secretary of Agriculture as a favor to Railroad baron James J. Hill who leased the entire St. Mary Valley for the Great Northern Railway subsidiary, the Park Saddle Horse Company for ten cents an acre and Blackfeet ranchers were removed to the eastern reservations lands.

NO PLANS FOR BLACKFEET  CATTLE RANCHING-OUR ONLY INDUSTRY

The tribal council set the price for reserved tribal grazing lands at $5 per acre to be leased by Blackfeet middlemen and sub-leased to white ranchers who gain a profit of $67,000,000 annually on tribal and allotted lands. The market value of  grazing lands is $270 per acre, but is lowered by the tribal council to $5 an acre for racketeering of white ranchers and Blackfeet sub-leasers. This underground reservation economy leaves out trust landowners and Blackfeet cattle ranchers and hands reserved tribal grazing lands to white men. Trust landowners and Blackfeet ranchers are victims in this century old land fraud scheme. White men collect $67,000,000 by grazing their cattle on leased tribal and allotted lands. Trust landowners are cheated by selling “fractionated lands” to the tribe that are attached to large tribal grazing units that take over their whole allotment.

For instance, my great-grandmother’s 80 acre homestead allotment is divided because the tribe purchased shares and now controls the whole allotment and attached it to a 6,000 acre tribal grazing unit leased to a Blackfeet “middleman” for $5 an acre and sub-leased to a white rancher for $60,000 while we landowners get $25 for our share. We have to ask the leaser if we can build a home on our own land.

The Cobell Case buy-back program is a land fraud used to consolidate allotted lands under the tribal council control by purchasing “fractionated shares” that allow the tribal council to control the whole family allotment. Blackfeet ranchers cannot build their cattle herds under this land fraud and corrupt BIA and tribal council leasing system. Trust landowners cannot get market value of trust land by BIA leasing systems and Blackfeet cattle ranchers cannot build their cattle herds in competition with rich white ranchers.   

WATER COMPACT SETTLEMENT=  $150,000,000  TO THE BLACKFEET TRIBE

Did Chairman Barnes tell tribal members about the $150,000,000 settlement? Blackfeet Reservation land leases and natural resources are “big business” and if they were private –sector businesses would be on the list of Forbes and Fortune magazines most valuable enterprises. The Blackfeet Reservation “gross reservation product” is about $850 million dollars annually but lease revenues paid to the Blackfeet Tribe amount to about $10 million and allotted land lease revenues amount to about $2 million. Trust landowners own 1.3 million acres of the reservation land base but revenues for tribal and allotted leases total $12 million compared to $67 million for white men. This corrupt system is the economic drain on the Blackfeet Indians and why we are the poorest on our own reservation and why white cattlemen profit $67 million by leasing Blackfeet grazing lands. It is a century old fraudulent corrupt system of leasing Blackfeet grazing lands.

NO BUSINESS PLANS EXIST TO FUND BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS

The reservation produces many kinds of business opportunities including tourism, outdoor recreation, oil & gas, cattle industry, crops, wildlife, wood harvesting, and water leasing. Wall Street Bankers and experts in water marketing placed a value on Blackfeet water resources @ $500 million in annual revenues, but the tribal council and BIA have no “business plans” to market quality Blackfeet products such as bottled water, food and beverage processing plants, beef products and grains to global markets.

A Hutterite Colony on the Blackfeet Reservation signed a contract last month with a grocery food chain for $38,000,000 to produce “free-range organic eggs” produced without locking laying hens in cages for their entire life cycle. Consumers want organic free-range agriculture products and pay high prices for such products. A Tribal member tried to develop a turkey farm on the reservation and was laughed at by the tribal council, who are clueless on the value of agriculture products.

CATTLE RANCHERS AND TRUST LANDOWNERS ASSOCIATION

It is of paramount importance for landowners and ranchers to organize and take control of negotiating tribal and allotted land leases and to acquire the financial resources through the $150 million water compact settlement to develop trust property and cattle ranchers to benefit themselves. There is no funding set aside in the Blackfeet water compact to re-start the self-reliant successful Blackfeet cattle industry or to purchase cattle for Blackfeet ranchers or to produce free-range, grass fed beef cattle or small livestock products desired by food corporations.

The choice is either to continue to lease our lands to white men or to build the Blackfeet livestock and farming industries to grab the $67,000,000 for ourselves. There is money to budget $50,000,000 for the cattle ranchers, $50,000,000 for trust landowners, and $50,000,000 for a per capita payment to tribal members who desperately need cash.

Glacier and Pondera County Profile of white ranchers and farmers on the reservation shows revenues produced by white ranchers and farmers from crops and livestock that include grains, vegetables, nursery greenhouse, sweet potatoes, Christmas trees, hay, poultry and eggs, cattle and calves, milk and dairy products, hogs and pigs, sheep, goats, horses, burros, donkeys, aquaculture, wheat, barley, field and grass seeds, layers, broilers, turkeys, and pullets to replace laying flocks that produce $61,000,000 in sales of crops and livestock plus another $7,000,000 paid to white ranchers & farmers in federal agriculture subsidy payments they collect leasing tribal and allotted lands. The Blackfeet Indians have a century old tradition of cattle ranching since 1893.

GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC MARKETS FOR BLACKFEET PRODUCTS

Chinese Government Purchasers brought to the reservation by Blackfeet council member and cattle rancher Hugh Monroe offered to purchase bottled water and beef products from the Blackfeet Indians. I was in full support of Mr. Monroe and I thought he was one of the most effective councilmen we ever had, but the council would not listen to him and his project was rejected. It would have made all of us rich! Las Vegas casino owners offered a deal to pipeline Blackfeet water to Las Vegas, a distance of 1,700 miles! Water marketing and cattle ranching will make us all rich forever, so long as the grass grows and the water flows as guaranteed in our 1855 treaty with the United States. 

BLACKFEET CHIEFS BANISH WHITEMEN FROM THE RESERVATION

The Agent reported in 1890, “The Blackfeet Indians are active, intelligent, progressive people. They are unusually polite and sociable people, and as far as manners and politeness go, have very little to learn from their white brothers. It is well known to this department, this is not an agricultural country, and it is but a waste of time to plant crops as frost will kill grains and vegetables from blizzards in July and August. This country is well adapted to stock raising and making hay. The Indians recognize this and are devoting their time and energy to making hay and raising stock.”

Usurpation means “unlawful encroachment or assumption of the use of property, power, or authority which belongs to another.” Who is unlawfully using Blackfeet tribal and allotted resources? Tribal council members and third-party Blackfeet leasers who sub-lease tribal and allotted lands to white men have turned the Blackfeet Reservation into a “white man’s cow pasture.” The Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal council are conducting a criminal scheme to devalue tribal and allotted lands and resources and pocket lease money that should go directly to the tribe and Blackfeet trust landowners. The goal of white men is to make the remaining Indians lands “unusable” for Blackfeet cattle ranchers and trust landowners. The Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a report in 1980 it would take a million dollars a year for fifty years to develop “dry” Blackfeet lands and build pipelines to water hay meadows to improve grazing lands or $50,000,000 total.

“CITIZENSHIP OF CATTLE” ISSUE IN BLACKFEET CATTLE IDENTITY

Our 1896 Agreement/Article Five outlaws white men’s cattle from the reservation and reserves the entire reservation grazing lands for the “exclusive use and occupancy of Blackfeet Indians and cattle where their herds may feed, undisturbed.” We need a set aside of $50,000,000 of water compact money budgeted for Blackfeet allotted land improvements to be administered by a “Blackfeet Landowners Trust Account” and a “Blackfeet Cattle Ranchers Trust Account” set aside in the Interior Department for Blackfeet cattle ranchers to purchase cattle and improve their ranch property, and set aside another $50,000,000 to be distributed to tribal members per capita to give them cash for some hope and subsistence.  

It is impossible for us to profit under the corrupt system of tribal council crooks in cahoots with BIA and white cattlemen. They are even stealing tribal hay that is supposed to feed to our buffalo herd, and selling it to white cattlemen. I pity our poor buffalo, they too will starve and be victims of tribal crooks along with trust landowners and tribal ranchers cheated by a council system of corruption. Federal prison is the only way to stop crooks. We need an “Inspector Incognito” to infiltrate the tribal council and BIA to catch the crooks who are stealing our land and hay. The rule of law is that only Blackfeet cattle allowed to graze on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, no white cattle brands allowed!

SALISH-KOOTNAI WATER COMPACT ENDS TRIBAL POVERTY

The Salish-Kootenai tribes negotiated a water compact- $2.5 billion, Kerr Dam, one-half of Flathead Lake, and an economic development plan to fund tribal members ranching and farming operations on irrigated lands, business loans, credit, and markets for tribal products and sales of power from Kerr Dam amounting to $25,000,000 per year forever! They had a 15 man water compact negotiating team of lawyers, hydrologists, biologists, and historians that proved they “owned” their tribal water resources. They got so much water they felt sorry for white landowners and “gave” them surplus waters.

Montana legislators laughed at Chairman Old Person’s “one-man tribal water department” that showed up in Helena to negotiate for the Blackfeet Tribe. Chairman Old Person kicked us out of the water compact meeting in Browning when we brought up our land claims and water rights. Chairman Barnes is clueless on value of tribal water.

THE SUCCESSFUL, SELF-RELIANT BLACKFEET CATTLE INDUSTRY OF 1893

            Blackfeet cattle ranchers are true tribal heroes because they saved the tribe from starvation caused by Texas cattle kings who destroyed tribal buffalo herds to make room for their vast cattle herds that reached the Judith Basin in 1863. It was the beginning of the physical genocide era that killed tribal populations from 7,800 in 1863 to just 1,811 Blackfeet left alive in 1890. Blackfeet Chiefs began “selling land for a living” in the 1887 land cession of 17,000,000 acres for $1.5 million to be paid in 10 annual installments of $150,000 in cattle, rations, equipment, supplies, and improvements that brought the tribe out of a starving condition by 1893. The Blackfeet cattle industry consisted of 500 tribal brands, 25,000 cattle, and cash for all needful things, and a general prosperity for all tribal members. How many cattle do Blackfeet ranchers own today?

BLACKFEET RANCH CHILDREN ARE AN ENDANGERED HUMAN SPECIES

            Studies show the loss of the role of children in systems of land use endangers their future when parents are forced off ranch lands and knowledge of cattle ranching operations is being lost. Professor Kenneth R. Young writes, “The primary social unit is the ranch household, which is often nearly self-sufficient in the production of basic foods. Complex networks of shared labor and barter organized around ranch households show the importance of children in these land-use systems and consistent with the historical need for large families in traditional families. Children are an important source of labor in subsistence agriculture and participate in almost all subsistence activities as soon as they are physically able. It is common to see 12 to 15 year olds working with adults in all activities except those that require the strength of an adult. Younger children often do errands or serve in auxiliary roles. The learning process is the critical link in maintaining knowledge and practices of the ranching operations that are only available through oral transmission or observation. Social interactions create social networks that lead to later marriages, friendships, and extended families formed through childhood experiences or critical information is lost forever.” Blackfeet ranch children may not become ranchers.     

BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS ASSOCIATION NEEDED FOR CHANGE

            To prosper Blackfeet landowners and cattle ranchers need cooperatives to advance and protect their interests. A non-profit cooperative is required by the Indian Reorganization Act to “cut out the white man” from tribal and allotted land leases and profits and to secure those profits for the Blackfeet Indians. Blackfeet Chiefs adopted the constitution and charter to organize tribal credit to develop tribal cooperatives for cattle ranchers, and Indian crafts sales to tourists and for retail businesses for tribal members. 

             

             

   

BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS LEFT OUT OF WATER COMPACT

The 1896 Agreement/ Article Five reserves reservation grazing tracts for the "exclusive use and occupancy" of Blackfeet cattle ranchers, "where their herds may feed, undisturbed." The goal of the Blackfeet Chiefs was to get rid of white cattlemen who came on the reservation by trespassing or by leasing tribal and allotted lands for ten cents an acre leaving the Indians broke and out of the cattle business. Chief White Calf told the Congress, "We wish you would give us a lock to keep out the whites who are always bothering us and driving their herds onto the reservation and ruining our hay lands." Curly Bear told the Congress, "The whites are envious and desire our grazing lands and will be the ruin of our successful cattle industry. Did you tell the agent he could graze his cows on our lands? He does not have any Indian blood in his veins! If he is allowed to graze his cows the other white men will claim the same rights and we will be overrun." It was clear the Blackfeet Chiefs did not want any white cattle on the reservation to compete with Blackfeet owned cattle for the precious grass and water for building a cattle industry, so they wrote the Article Five into the 1896 Agreement to keep the white man out of the Blackfeet Reservation. In 1934 the Blackfeet Chiefs were talked into accepting the Indian Reorganization Act which provided for the Blackfeet Constitution and Charter and it also provided for the tribal credit program to support ranchers with loans and cattle feed for their cattle herds and for subsistence until the ranchers were profitable. It worked! The Plan of Operations for the Blackfeet Credit Program and the Blackfeet ranchers is an excellent business plan and it should be followed by the BIA and tribal council to re-start the successful, self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry. The 1896 Agreement and the Indian Reorganization Act are our guiding rules of law so far as the Blackfeet Tribe and United States Congress are concerned, but like so many good ideas, it has been the domain of tribal crooks and BIA operatives that steal hay, lease fees, and grazing tracts meant for Blackfeet ranchers. The "Inspector Incognito" sent to the reservation by Congress found white cattlemen trespassing and an "in-house Indian-ring" of tribal council ranchers hogging tribal grazing lands in conspiracy with white cattle companies to steal the grass and water holes of allotted landowners and collecting lease fees for tribal and allotted grazing lands. It is the same system in place that allowed Chairman Old Person and Vice-Chairman Archie St. Goddard to steal tribal leases and fees for their use of 35,000 acres of tribal grazing tracts. The tribal buffalo herd will be history soon if pilfering of tribal hay and feed is not stopped and the buffalo starve in winter.
TOO MANY CHIEFS AND NOT ENOUGH INDIANS: The people have suffered for 75 years under the tribal council, put in by the BIA to control the Indians, by allowing a few council members to rob the tribe and keep the people poor so BIA can keep their jobs and the Indians poor, forever, by the water compact. This is our last chance to get on our feet financially by using the $150,000,000 to be paid to the tribal council in the water compact. The trust landowners and cattle ranchers are not even mentioned in the water compact except as it ends all tribal and allotted land claims forever! Why is that? It is because Chairman Old Person was trying to sneak the money by the people to keep his personal $350,000 culture fund that paid for his concubines and whores in Washington D.C.
$150,000,000 TO BE PAID OUT IN THE WATER COMPACT:
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Report in 1980 said $50,000,000 is needed to pipeline water to dry trust land allotments so Indian landowners and ranchers can have water for stock, hay production and domestic uses, and another $50,000,000 is needed to make the Blackfeet cattle ranchers "whole" for their losses from BIA mismanagement of the reservation cattle industry and for destroying the self-reliant, successful Blackfeet cattle industry. The funds would be used to purchase cattle for Blackfeet ranchers, improve their property, and to secure markets for beef products. A tribal trust landowners and cattle ranchers cooperative will be formed to take over the water compact funding to be held in a tribal trust account under BIA supervision. The water compact funds will be managed by the  Blackfeet landowners association and cattlemen's cooperative to "cut out the white men" from the reservation cattle industry as outlined in the Indian Reorganization Act Regulations and the 1896 Agreement/Article Five. The coop could build a beef processing plant to create jobs for tribal members and meat for the people! Chinese Government Purchasers were on the reservation requesting Blackfeet beef products to be shipped to China. They said a steak costs $100 in China.
I read the article on younger Blackfeet ranchers like Cowboy After Buffalo and others who want to ranch but find the doors closed to them despite Blackfeet ownership of 1.3 million acres of the best grazing lands in the nation. If the ranchers want to organize and take advantage of their special treaty rights and the Indian Reorganization Act, I will help them to research and file requests to Congress to make them "whole" for their losses in cattle ranching and to recognize special treaty rights to use tribal grazing tracts for their own cattle and to build their own cattle ranch. That is the law and treaty!
MY BUDGET FOR THE $150,000,000 WATER COMPACT MONEY:
$50,000,000 TO THE BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS FOR CATTLE PURCHASE ETC.
$50,000,000 TO BLACKFEET TRUST LANDOWNERS FOR PROPERTY IMPROVMENTS
$50,000,000 TO BE PAID TO TRIBAL MEMBERS PER CAPITA PAYMENTS
TRIBAL COUNCIL TO BE PAID-$00,000,000 TO DO THEIR JOBS IN SERVING THE PEOPLE
Bob Juneau Sr.  phone me @ 406-493-0894.

TRIBAL GOVERNMENT REFORM NEEDED TO SAVE THE PEOPLE FROM CORRUPTION

TRIBAL GOVERNMENT REFORM NEEDED TO SAVE THE PEOPLE FROM CORRUPTION

Suffering among destitute tribal members is rising every year even as more money pours into tribal coffers and disappears into that black hole of 099 the infamous tribal council account. Where is the money from the casino, hotel, oil leases, grazing leases, and $192,000,000 in treaty obligation federal funds for tribal housing, college, health, alcohol & drug programs, headstart, job training funds, I.H.S. and BIA programs and services for less than 8,000 tribal members who actually live on the reservation, the other 8,000 are refugees living in little Browning in Pablo, Seattle, Missoula etc. Where does all this money go to and who is stealing from the poor fund? The Forensic Audit found pilfering in tribal funds but the council tossed it in the trash like they always do. Where is the U.S. Attorney when tribal and federal funds are robbed leaving us cold and hungry. The self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry is gone to council third-party leases that sub-lease to white men for $5 per acre of the best grazing land in the west. The ghost of Joe Sherburne haunts the tribal office, an evil man who murdered hundreds of Blackfeet landowners during the allotment period 1912-1922 in complicity with BIA officials who tossed the Blackfeet chiefs in the agency jail to stop them from boarding the train to protest to Congress, so our tribal attorney Robert Hamilton lobbied Congress to stop the murders and land frauds. The Indian land titles were robbed in Glacier and Pondera county court for tax deeds and liens filed by Joe Sherburne and his crowd of murderers, the Commercial Clubs surrounding the reservation in Cut Bank, Conrad, and Valier of white supremacists-who started the racist “Montanans Opposing Discrimination” that came out of Glacier County in the 1980’s to end our treaty rights and steal our land and water. BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL VIOLATIONS OF THE INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT: 1. To establish a Blackfeet Cattle Ranchers Association, and use tribal credit to purchase cattle, and establish a cattle ranchers cooperative to process “cuts of beef” to retail and wholesale markets to supply the government and tribal food programs. 2. Preserve profits for Blackfeet landowners and ranchers by “cutting out the [white rancher] middleman” and third-party tribal members who sub-lease tribal and allotted land to white ranchers and pocket the profits for themselves. 3. Organize business charters to develop individual businesses for tribal landowners. 4. Establish “citizenship of cattle” on the reservation-Blackfeet cattle only allowed to graze on reserved tribal lands. 5. Eliminate tribal council land board and replace it with cattle ranchers and trust landowners land board to make decisions on tribal and allotted land use. 6. Reserve all water sources and grazing tracts for Blackfeet cattle ranchers per the 1896 Agreement/Article Five-special treaty rights of Blackfeet cattle ranchers. 7. Establish Home Rule in all districts on the reservation. 8. Reserve all water compact money for tribal members per capita payments, cattle ranchers cattle purchase, retail business loans, arts & crafts association to market Blackfeet traditional products to Glacier Park tourists, small business loans, equipment and subsidy for tribal ranchers, arts & crafts entrepreneurs, construction of Blackfeet Culture Center, Youth Center, equipment for free-range egg production, layers, and broilers, pork processing plant, retail and wholesale sales to the Government food programs, schools, bottled water sales, and everything else!  This will end the white apartheid system and council corruption that keeps us poor, We need to have organizing meetings to get our projects funded with the compact money. Bob Juneau Sr.

ATTENTION TO BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS AND LANDOWNERS

ATTENTION TO BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS AND LANDOWNERS

By Bob Juneau Sr. a trust landowner on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

I have been protesting the forced patents land frauds since the Blackfeet Chiefs asked me to help the people with their land problems in 1980 when I was director of the Blackfeet Natural Resources Department. We brought the claims to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and got approval to hold hearings in Browning but the tribal council shut it down. In the water compact meetings with federal, state and tribal council we were told to shut up by the tribal attorney and I was tossed out by Chairman Old Person. The water compact is the last chance “forever” for trust landowners and cattle ranchers to get their issues heard but even that is gone because the tribal council approved it without participation or testimony by tribal landowners and cattle ranchers. It is just a big gob of money to bail out tribal council debts of millions of dollars. Chief and Chairman Old Person has never testified to Congress on behalf of tribal landowners or cattle ranchers. We placed our trust in electing him for 66 years and he stabbed us in the back, even joining whites in denying our water rights in the water compact which ends our land claims, forever. A land fraud is in process right now by tribal council leasing valuable grazing land to third-party tribal members who sub-lease to white ranchers leaving out tribal landowners. The Cobell Case is being used to concentrate land ownership under the tribal council so individual landowners have to compete with white men to lease their own property. I am working on financing for tribal landowners and cattle ranchers to get them back in business and provide cash for leasing trust lands at market value. There is no reason to cheat the tribe and trust landowners out of a proper lease payment except the greed of tribal grafters. It is an old corrupt system that destroyed the original self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry successful by 1893 to replace the buffalo economy. The Blackfeet are excellent cattle ranchers and ranch children are endangered people due to tribal graft and BIA graft in denying the treaty rights and federal laws designed to bring the people to self-support by cattle ranching. White ranchers in Glacier County profit $61,000,000 in sales of crops and cows, and get $7,000,000 in federal subsidies, much of it on leased allotted and tribal lands. We are getting beat on every front on our own reservation. The Indian Reorganization Act provides for landowners cooperatives “ to cut out the middleman” meaning the white man and third-party tribal members exploiting us all. This is our last chance to get control of our own land and cattle economy. We must demand “Institutional Equity” that is a Congressional requirement that all parties to the settlement have an equal voice in the hearings and the division of money. I cannot do it alone because the tribal council throws me out every time I try to change things for our people. Earl is still around spreading lies and rumors saying nothing can be done, we must accept the water compact. It is a lie! But if we do not organize and protest, we are done. I tried to get a seminar at the college to bring people together but that was denied. Please help any way you can to get us a hearing before the tribal council to voice our issues. I will be there if someone can get a meeting with the tribal council. Let me know soon and I will bring the evidence! Bob juneau Sr.

HISTORY OF CYCLES OF DEMISE OF EMPIRES AND NATIONS

HISTORY OF CYCLES OF DEMISE OF EMPIRES AND NATIONS

            Genocide and Economic-Apartheid on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

            Excerpted from “The Sacred Buffalo Vision” available on Amazon.com

                        By Bob Juneau Sr., Blackfeet Patriot

Historical Fact: The Blackfoot Nation is a treaty nation recognized by the United States Congress as a sovereign Indian nation in the 1855 Treaty. The United States Government promised to protect the Blackfeet Indians from ‘depredations and unlawful acts of white men living in and crossing their territory, may commit.”

Montana Territory Genocide Policy: United States Indian Agent, George B. Wright, Monthly Report, “Soon after my arrival at Fort Benton on the 28^th of September, 1866, there was seen on the opposite bank of the Missouri river eleven Paiegan Indians desirous of crossing over to the Benton side, whereupon a body of some twenty whites, residents of Fort Benton, returning [confederate gold] miners to the States, ran down to the bend in the river, and as the boat touched the shore, these men fired into them, wounding three and killing one. The Indians ran back to the opposite shore leaving the dead one with the whites, who immediately scalped him. On the following day, the whites chased Indians seen above Fort Benton, killing six, bringing the scalps into the town. I endeavored to get the scalps but was refused. [$50 Indian scalp bounty paid by territorial government]. It is well known that citizens carry with them a hostility towards the Indians, and spare no efforts in obliterating them from existence. A few Chiefs of the Blackfeet Tribe called recently to see me and strongly expressed a desire to remain in peace with the whites, and requested to remove the agency from Fort Benton. Governor Meagher’s Indian War in Montana is the biggest humbug of the age, got up to advance his political interest and to enable a lot of bummers who surround him to make a big raid on the United States Treasury by starting Indian wars. Parties, and hundreds of them were traveling from Helena to Fort Benton, some mounted, some on foot, and some in wagons, in squads of two, four, six and eight-some armed and some unarmed. None appeared to apprehend any more danger than they would in Washington City. The boat I came down the river on, the Yorktown, did not even load the guns furnished them by the War Department, and Indians were allowed on the boat when they wished to come on board, neither did I hear of a single boat that had been disturbed by Indians on the Missouri River. I am satisfied no trouble need be apprehended from the tribes, notwithstanding newspaper accounts, unless trouble is brought on by General Meagher and militia troops under his command.”

MASSACRE OF CHIEF HEAVY RUNNERS BAND: General P.H. Sheridan telegraph to General W.T. Sherman, “In compliance with your permission of November 4, 1869, to punish the Blackfeet Indians who have been robbing and murdering in Montana. I have the honor to report the complete success of an expedition sent against them, under the command of Colonel E.M. Baker, Second Cavalry, in which one hundred and seventy three Indians were killed, forty four lodges destroyed, a large amount of winter provisions destroyed, and three hundred horses captured. I think this will end the Indian troubles in Montana and do away with the necessity of sending additional troops there in the spring as contemplated.” INSPECTOR GENERALS REPORT, January 29, 1870: On the date of November 22, 1869 General De Trobriand makes a report on the condition of Indian Affairs, from which it will be seen that reports of Indian depredations are exaggerated, and also a second report of November 26, from  which it appears that the conditions of Indian affairs is by no means alarming.” Lt. Pease met with the Blackfeet Chiefs a week after the massacre and reported that only 15 of the dead Indians were of fighting age, the rest were elderly men, women, and children. The warriors were on a winter hunt for buffalo. The Indians were suffering from small pox, lay dying in their lodges, and burned alive in their beds by the drunken troops. 1300 horses and several thousand buffalo robes stolen by Montana Militia troops. A few little children hid in the brush and made it down to Mountain Chiefs camp in the forty degree below zero weather. It was Montana border-whites lies and the beginning of a campaign of genocide of Blackfeet people by massacre, starvation, small pox, whiskey trade and removals, Tribal population dropped from 7,800 in 1863 to 1,811 left alive in 1896.”  

A frontier newspaper reported, “The settlers simply danced with delight” when hearing of the massacre. The massacre site is now owned by white ranchers who call it “dead Injun coulee.” White ranchers report Blackfeet skulls and bones kicked out of bushes by their cattle as late as 1910. Some of the Blackfeet skulls ended up in the Cowboy Bar in Great Falls displayed for cowboy fun until the Spotted Eagle warriors liberated them in a fight with cowboy patrons, as Indian skulls tossed from Indian to Indian until they got out of the bar in a gruesome scrum with white supremacists.

 A young female skeleton was found at the University of Montana in 2001 that was picked up afterwards and placed in Hill County morgue and somehow ended up in the Geology Dept. A forensic exam by an Indian student showed she had a bullet hole in her forehead and injuries to her pelvic bones indicating rape. A newspaper reported, “The settlers simply danced with delight” upon hearing of the Indian massacre.

            Lt. John Meacom, stationed at Fort Shaw recorded the stories of Blackfoot Orator Nis-su’ kai-yo, but also wrote of the genocides of the Indians and the buffalo and all the other prairie animals the tribe depended on for food, shelter, clothing, and wealth, Lt. Beacom wrote, “Ni-su’ kai-yo was already an old man. During his boyhood his people his people had held sway over a vast domain extending from the Yellowstone to the Saskatchewan, and from the Rocky Mountains to the far Eastward; but before he had passed his prime their fortunes had begun to recede before the pitiless advance of another race, and he lived to see them driven gradually Northward and then Westward further and further towards the great rocky barrier, until, as he expressed it, they were forced “to lean against the mountains.” He fully realized the extent of the disasters that had come upon his people, but he seldom spoke of them in the presence of white men. He could readily recall the time when the buffalo roamed over the prairie in vast herds, and deer, antelope and other game abounded everywhere. He remembered also that his people in those days were rich and powerful. Now, however, the buffalo was almost extinct and other species were terribly decimated, and as a result, the Indian was reduced to beggary and utter helplessness. Few realize that the sudden extermination of the buffalo was a greater calamity to the Plains Indian than has ever befallen to the lot of any other people, but such is the fact. No other people have been deprived in a moment of their accustomed food and stripped of their means of shelter or have been forced to adapt themselves to such new and strange environment. My race had mastered his and had dealt harshly with him and all other dwellers of the plains. It doubtless occurred to him, that if the dead could rise again, they would choose the Indian and not the white man for their chief. He sat there calm and impenetrable as became one of his race and dignity.”    

 A CENTURY OF “SLOW-DEATH MEASURES BLACKFEET GENOCIDE

The “Slow-Death Genocide” campaign of economic and political apartheid 1896-2016, caused by the Montana Legislature enacting Glacier and Pondera counties within Blackfeet Reservation borders on a white land base consisting of stolen Blackfeet land allotments in complicity with the United States Congress and Executive Branch. Indian land frauds for over a century is causing 80% reservation unemployment rate and despair, hopelessness and poverty of an abused treaty people continuing to 2016 and beyond.

  When you drive through the reservation town of Browning it seems you have left the United States of America and entered a dead zone of impoverishment more akin to third-world nations, or the bombed out cities of Iraq.

            The 2015 water compact signals the end stage of a century of colonization of the Blackfeet Reservation and Blackfeet people by the Territory and State of Montana; despite treaty promises made in the 1855 Treaty. Ending political and economic apartheid on the Blackfeet Reservation  by border-whites is the only solution possible in making the Blackfeet people whole for their losses by the removal of the State of Montana and ending Montana border-whites illegal trespass on the sovereign Blackfeet Reservation.

            The Blackfeet Water Compact ends all of our political and economic gains as a sovereign nation forever. It “legitimizes” illegal trespass of border-whites upon stolen Blackfeet land allotments. Patent-in-Fee titles of border-whites and water rights have been legitimized by the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council approval of the water compact. It ends “forever” a century of Blackfeet land claims for treaty violations. The Blackfeet Indians will be economically and politically colonized forever by the water compact because the border-whites have money power and political power.

The imperial tribal council has been corrupt for 75 years since tribal democracy was forced upon the Blackfeet people by the Interior Department in 1935. Interior Department lawyers drew up a tribal constitution with no separation of powers clause with a provision for Indian preference allowing elected tribal council members “preference” in leasing tribal property. That was the beginning of the “chain conspiracy” upon which all of the following criminal acts committed by the tribal council “continuing conspiracy” in place today, and justice denied to the people.  

 The inaugural tribal council in 1936 pointed the way for future tribal councils and a century of poverty of the Blackfeet people. The first Blackfeet Chairman Wright Hagerty leased tribal oil and grazing lands to himself and profited $500,000 in 1936, and nine other tribal council members had incomes over $100,000. Standard Oil and many other oil companies, and real estate sharks were on the reservation in 1936 buying votes with whiskey and cash payments to tribal council candidates, who in turn passed tribal oil leases favoring the oil companies when they were elected to the tribal council.  

James J. Hill and his son Louis Hill got tribal oil structures “patented” by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. that produced over a BILLION DOLLARS worth of oil revenues from oil wells still pumping today for the profits of Wright Hagerty and the Hills. The modern day Blackfeet Tribal Business Council costs us $4,000,000 to support nine tribal council members over a four year term of office that we foolishly approved in a tribal referendum by council lies that a two year term was not long enough to get things done. Reform of tribal government is a sick joke on us. New Reforms of the Blackfeet Constitution calls for a Blackfeet President and Vice-President and fifteen district council members who will never agree on anything and will double the cost of tribal council administration. Who will have the guts to prosecute the President of the Blackfeet Nation and District Council members? Tribal Government is so corrupt and the constitution so weak it is unable to prosecute crimes by tribal government officials.

The United States Justice Department will not prosecute elected tribal government officials. Petty criminals are hauled into federal court with headlines that the U.S. Attorney for Montana is tough on crime. Bullshit for public consumption! The U.S. Attorney for Montana will not spend his resources to convict council crooks, but millions of federal dollars are routinely pilfered by tribal council members. Tribal Chairman Old Person and council members plea bargained to pay back millions in missing federal dollars with tribal dollars to avoid federal prison sentences.

Federal Funds on the Blackfeet Reservation amount to $192,000,000 annually to serve less than 8,000 Indians who actually live on the reservation, the rest are refugees. It would solve tribal poverty if the money was just given to the people and the federal government could leave the reservation. Poverty programs do no good; the people need cash. The Blackfeet people could elect tribal chiefs to oversee critical law enforcement.

Indian Property crimes that involved corruption by state officials and federal officials over the past century are “extinguished” by the water compact. Indian land thefts have not been prosecuted for a century because the United States Government would have to sue itself on behalf of its Indian Trust landowners. The United States Government is federal trustee of Indian property. President Reagan was chided by South African and Russian leaders for maintaining white-apartheid systems on Indian Reservations allowing corporate exploitation of the Natives. President Reagan responded by throwing out 17,000 Indian land claims, and calling the Indians “backward.”

A Special Federal Magistrate must be appointed by the Justice Department to prosecute on-going, in-house Indian ring of crooks in tribal government and in federal agencies serving Indian reservations. Why is the Blackfeet Tribe $16,000,000 in debt? Where did our money go? What will the council do with water compact money? We should even pay the special federal magistrates salary to serve our interests to send council crooks and federal officials to the federal penitentiary where they really belong.

Indian Health Service Officials in the Billings Area Office conspire with tribal health officials to kick back $350,000 in federal dollars to provide the Area Director with play money for trips and extra cash depriving the Blackfeet Indians of drug and alcohol funds needed at the reservation. Indian Health Service Hospital Inspections routinely passed by AREA OFFICE IHS Inspectors to hide real health violations in hospitals administered by “Indian” Service Unit Directors, a good old boy system.

IHS doctors told me the juvenile diabetes epidemic on the reservation is caused because our children are not getting three good meals a day and their lives will end by age of twenty if they do not get kidney transplants. They are losing their permanent teeth as teenagers because IHS dentists do not have the funds to repair teeth, they only pull teeth. It is a medical fact that rotten teeth lead to heart attacks, cancers, and lung disease. Where are the IHS funds to repair our children’s teeth? IHS is a rotten, corrupt system.  

Chairman Earl Old Person had a $350,000 tribal culture fund to pay his sex bills and to travel the nation with his concubines paid by tribal money. His niece walked out of tribal finance with $65,000. During the council civil war, he refused to sign tribal checks for welfare recipients and tribal government employees payroll while our people were sleeping in their cars in the winter because they could not pay their energy bills, and Glacier Electric shut off the electricity. Their children only had meals at school due to the fact they could not purchase food, the tribal food warehouse locked them out, and food trucks had to come from Great Falls and Missoula to avoid starvation. Hay and supplies for the tribal buffalo herd is stolen at night and sold to white ranchers. Everywhere there is corruption in tribal government.

In 1930, Mrs. Mabel Monroe-Bond wrote to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier to send an “Inspector Incognito” to catch the Agent and white cattlemen rustling Blackfeet cattle. She was our “detective incognito” traveling to Cut Bank to mail her letters to Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier because the agent and agency postmaster were in cahoots. The agent and white men pilfering Blackfeet lease checks and cashing them at Joe Sherburne’s bank. She wrote, “”Who is Joe Sherburne? He is our local merchant for the last 35 years and owns the First National Bank (that explains it). All the money from the Office goes through his bank; that is how he comes to exert so much influence over the Indian Office. They are linked up like a log chain-Swift & Armor, the Great Northern Railway, the agent and Joe Sherburne. Results, they have built up a nice little Tammany Hall Clique at Browning. Graft is a hard thing to prove where members are handy at padding up accounts, but one can always put 2 and 2 together. Joe Sherburne doesn’t even stop to put on a mask. Sherburne’s political machine is secretly running the county and the Indian office. It was a great calamity to lose our lands.”

The old time Blackfeet Chiefs died for the survival of the Blackfeet Nation, and they starved alongside the people and sold their cattle herds to feed starving people until they too were in a starving condition. In 1980, Blackfeet Chiefs Willie Running Crane and Joe Bear Medicine were still fighting for our claims and they educated me on the Blackfeet land claims still outstanding in Congress. They asked me to help the people with their “land problems” which turned out to be the forced patents cases.

These are the same land claims our ancestors Blackfeet Chiefs Wolf Plume, Black Weasel. Young Man Chief, White Calf, Mountain Chief, Rides-At-The-Door, and our genius tribal lawyer Robert Hamilton fought and won in defeating Senator Walsh of Montana’s Bill in Congress to open up our reservation to white settlement.

In 1913, Bureau of Indian Affairs Agents and Commercial Clubs in Cut Bank, Conrad, Valier, and other border-whites on the reservation borders were starving the Indians to force a land cession of 156,000 acres of irrigated farm lands and oil fields.

 In 1919, the white men got on the reservation by murdering hundreds of Blackfeet trust landowners for their allotted lands and oil rights. Mrs. Mabel Monroe-Bond was robbed along with her sister when they were teenagers by Joe Sherburne and the county attorney of their allotted lands, located at St. Mary Village and she led the fight to expose the massive land frauds to Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier.

 Border-whites stole 325,250 acres of allotted lands that form the land base of Glacier and Pondera Counties inside of the reservation borders created by the Montana Legislature on stolen Blackfeet land allotments. Mrs. Monroe-Bond reported Blackfeet landowners were starved to death by withholding rations, and frozen to death in the unheated agency jail by Blackfeet Agency Superintendants and agency employees.

Blackfeet Chiefs were thrown in the agency jail until the train passed Browning, so the chiefs could not travel to Washington D.C. to go to Congress and expose the land frauds, and murders of Indian landowners. Robert Hamilton boarded the train in Cut Bank off the reservation and worked for six months in Congress to get Senator Walsh’s Blackfeet Land Cession Bill defeated to keep the white man on his own reservation in Glacier County and Pondera County across Cut Bank River and Birch Creek where the reservation boundary lies and where the border-whites really belong. Mass Murders and starvation in conspiracy is how the white man got on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

Robert Hamilton telegraphed Blackfeet Chiefs Wolf Plume, White Antelope, Curley Bear, and Black Weasel from Washington D.C.: “ My Dear Friends, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your joint letter setting forth the reasons why you object to the McFatridge Delegation and upholding my attitude concerning our affairs. Yesterday the Blackfeet matters were discussed by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the proceedings of the general council of the Black-Feet Indians, wherein we adopted the platform setting forth the reasons why our reservation should never be thrown open to settlement. In conclusion, the victory is ours, and you men who have stood by the right and by your own people will always be highly respected by the members of Congress who have been with us in this fight. And, those of you who have stood by the right may justly consider themselves the leaders of their tribe, and not among those who are controlled by the Indian Agent. Very Sincerely Yours. Robert J. Hamilton.”

In 1944, Chairman John Sharp wrote Hon. James F. O’Connor, House of Representatives, Washington D.C. to report, “Patents-in-Fee were issued to Indians as early as the year 1918, in many cases the Indian not knowing of the issuance of the patent in fee of his allotment. Some refused to accept the patent, knowing they would be unable to pay the taxes assessed against the land. They were advised that they must accept the patent in fee from the office of the Indian agent, and whether or not they accepted the patent, their lands would be assessed and taxed, the taxes must be paid. This procedure was promoted by white traders who were trying to put the Indian landless. Under these circumstances many Indians, both full and mixed bloods, lost their lands through taxes, loans, mortgages, and transfer sales, not knowing the real value of their lands so eagerly sought by the avaricious white post traders, local white men, real estate sharks, and professional land traders, who flocked to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation making land deals, and foreclosing of their interests, receiving as low as $250 for a 320 acre allotment. About one-third of the Indians have become landless with the exception of 80 acre homestead allotments. Many of these lands are valuable oil lands. One tract in particular produced $3,000,000 in oil revenues for the white man. Louis Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway, who was at the time one of the major oil lessees through his lobbyists in Washington D.C. was able to get major oil structures on Indian trust land patented in fee by the Indian Bureau. We feel that we are not asking too much when we ask that our lands be held in trust and non-assessable, and be given the opportunity to govern ourselves; after all we are citizens of the United States and protecting our country by our boys fighting for our country overseas, so when they return they may enjoy the heritage of land from their ancestors. All we ever wanted is a fair, just, equal, and unbiased deal for each and every Indian of the Blackfeet Tribe.”

In the 1980’s we discovered massive oil rights frauds by Glacier County Officials and oil men who robbed a billion dollars worth of oil from reservation oil fields. The tribal council passed a tribal council resolution in 1982 to pursue an oil claim for all of the oil stolen from the reservation, but once again, Chairman Old Person did not carry the resolution to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and we lost a billion dollar oil claim.  

Chief Earl Old Person is the only Blackfeet Chief in our history who is a proven traitor to the Blackfeet Nation. He is honored by white people, and dresses in the traditional ways and speaks the language and knows the old warrior songs, but he is no warrior. He has deprived the Blackfeet people of their treaty rights to recover their stolen allotted lands. A few years ago, I tried to bring the historical facts of the land frauds and murders of Blackfeet landowners to the Blackfeet College but I was rejected by President Kipp, the grand-daughter of Joe Brown. A white author was paid $5,000 to teach the students about Blackfeet history and he made fun of my book, “The Sacred Buffalo Vision” published on Amazon.com  and he denied the historical fact that hundreds of Blackfeet were murdered in 1913 and 1919-1922 by saying “dead Indians were seen walking around the reservation.” How does he know that and why was a white racist paid by the college to make a sick joke of our suffering and genocide? This author blamed the Blackfeet people for causing so much trouble that the tribal council could not do their jobs and make us prosperous. He only interviewed the tribal political families who also blame the Blackfeet people for their failures of the past 75 years. President Kipp hired her husband to give seminars. He is not an enrolled Blackfeet, but is an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, a violation of the hiring policy of the Blackfeet College.

The people wanted to know what the tribal council is doing with millions of tribal dollars, why the tribal council suppressed the Forensic Audit which found corruption in tribal government, and why the tribal council is in violation of the Blackfeet Constitution and corporate charter in not providing quarterly financial reports to the people.

The water compact was negotiated in secret and did not allow tribal members to testify. Tribal political families do not want the Blackfeet people to learn the truth of white encroachment on the reservation and tribal council history of corruption in tribal government that has kept us poor since Blackfeet Chiefs were replaced by political families. Complicity means being an accomplice in a crime and involvement in crime as principal or as accessory before fact, a conspirator, and a partner in racketeering.

Earl Old Person is the most hated Indian leader in the United States because he was found to be giving confidential information to the Bureau of Indian Affairs when he was co-plaintiff in the Cobell Case, and he was kicked out of the case by Mrs. Cobell for his treason. But that is only one of his many treasonous acts. I have told you before of his treasonous acts to the Blackfeet Tribe in stonewalling our forced fee patents claims.

 Shakespeare said, “The evil that men do lives after them.” We made progress on our claims when Chairman Allen Talks About and Chairman Bill Old Chief were leaders of the tribal council, but vicious rumors were started by Earl Old Person’s supporters to get these honest men defeated in tribal elections and the claims died when he took office again. In 2001, we got tribal council resolution #224-2001 passed by the tribal council unanimously and Earl Old Person was forced to sign it, but he never went to Washington D.C. since 2001 to request a senate investigation as ordered by Tribal Resolution #224-2001. In fact, he told the senate lawyer the Blackfeet did not want to pursue their land claims and once again the claims died in his office by his hand. The water compact is another example of his treason since it ends all of our land claims, “FOREVER!”

In the history of the cycles of the demise of empires and nations corruption from within is the cause from vice, theft, perversions, greed and corruption as crooks, perverts and cowards take over the reins of government and bring ruin to the people.

The United States Government is the original cause of our demise and co-conspirator in massive land frauds still unresolved.

In 1928, The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held hearings on the Blackfeet Reservation in a “Survey of Conditions of Indians in the United States” a nationwide survey by members of Congress, and they came to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Prior to the field hearings, Senator Lane of Oregon sent Investigator Liggitt to report on the conditions of the Indians, and found the Indians being starved by the agent and county officials to force another land cession.

Senator Lane testified to the Joint Commission of Congress to Investigate Indian Affairs the Indians were eating prairie dogs and skunks to stay alive, “With me it has been merely a matter securing justice for a class of people whose affairs were intrusted to me to take care of for them. A while ago the Senator from Montana implied the effort on the part of the senators from other states to correct this was intended to be a personal affront to him. The Indians asked me if I would protest against the passage of this surplus land sale bill of Senator Walsh and the Commercial Clubs surrounding the reservation. They said if their lands had to be sold to keep them from starving, rather than starve to death they would sell their lands, but they would prefer not to sell them if they could hold onto them. They were starving and eating prairie dogs and skunks. Did you ever eat a skunk? It will keep you alive, but it is not good to eat. I said I would object to the bill for them, and that I would do so without prejudice to the Senator from Montana. I would be a dog if I did not voice the objections of these poor folk. The Senator from Montana had been on the reservation but a short time before I was there, but he did not go into the Indians homes, look into their grub boxes, or see how they lived. I did, and that is the different point from which we view the subject. He has said that I hurt his feelings that I reported the conditions and that I objected to his bill and that I deemed it my duty to report the awful conditions. These Indians are human beings. The white man might take a lesson in kindness from the Blackfeet Indians, he is a man who divides his food to the last bite and does it with no hope of reward. That is what has become of the Indian’s cattle. They are eating one another’s cattle and many are poor because they have been feeding their starving neighbors. Helen Clark, the well known Blackfoot woman, well educated, one of the finest women anywhere, told me she was feeding her cattle to the Indians and in two years would have none. It takes a good woman to do that. What an example for us! I have resisted these things; I have fought against them, and because I have fought them, I have brought the insulting letter from the parasites on the Indians, put in here by Senator Walsh, but I say unto you now that as long as I stay in the Senate, I am going to keep on protesting every time there is an opportunity, without fear of God, man, or the devil, for I will not stand for that kind of game!”  

There is quite a bit of evidence the tribal council has become cannibals on the people, eating their flesh, their subsistence grants, and getting fat on the proceeds. Millions of dollars of federal and tribal funds are robbed and no tribal council member has ever been prosecuted and sent to federal prison in 75 years. I talked to an Assistant United States Attorney for Montana and told that, yes, they knew all about the land frauds, but had no plans to prosecute the Indian land claims. In the water compact meeting I was thrown out of the meeting for bringing up the Blackfeet forced patent claims. There is no hope left on the reservation for justice. This is America?

Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet Patriot