HISTORY RIDDLE FOR AMERICA. Q. WHY IS INDIAN LAND FREE? A. BECAUSE THE WHITE MAN STOLE IT!

American Historian Frederick Jackson Turner wrote, "The western wilds, from the Alleganies to the Pacific, constituted the richest free gift that was ever spread out before civilized man. Never again can such an opportunity come to the Sons of Men. The most significant thing about the American Frontier is that it lies at the hither edge of free land." The Blackfeet History book, Sacred Buffalo Vision, [available on Amazon.Com] documents the unending encroachments of white men on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, raping, murdering, scalping Blackfeet women, children, and old people for $50 bounty payments, still searching for free land with gold. The condition of white men looking for free land is up to the minute as they scan the Indian reservations for a nugget of leftover scrounge or the missed oil well or the devils gas hissing like a snake from the bowels of hell. I watched the white landowners testify for five years against Indian water compacts on state t.v. but at the Blackfeet tribal office the Indians were not allowed to testify on our water rights or the massive thefts of 312,250 acres of Blackfeet allotments,and one billion dollars worth of oil. Today it is "free water" the white man seeks on the Blackfeet Reservation, not content with robbing the western reservation waters, now envies our ocean of aquifers and reservation streams, to be put under state regulations by the Montana Department of Natural Resources for permits to use our own water. I recognize there will be a water board with two Indians to be outvoted by three white men who rule on the compact, but it will not be a working board for the Indians who will be subjected to an avalanche of paperwork and notices that will diminish our use of our own water including water marketing. The water compact has nothing for the Blackfeet landowners. In the past years I have seen thousands of white landowners protest Indian water rights in water compact meetings but I have never witnessed an Indian leader tell a white man get off the reservation, it was made for Indians! The water compact has the potential to produce an economic miracle for Blackfeet people who own the reservation. The Blackfeet landowners will become the wealthiest in the state if we get the restrictions on off-reservation water marketing out of the compact because we need to sell our high quality drinking water to global water markets. Just because white "reservation squatters" demands the Indian water rights doesn't mean he owns the water, and it isn't free like the Blackfeet land he stole and got away with unless Congress holds up the compact until our land claims are paid and the white man gets a free ticket to Cut Bank, Valier, and Conrad to his own "Montana reservation." Do not vote for the compact, there is nothing for the Blackfeet landowners, and it is a free water giveaway to the white parasites on the Blackfeet Reservation. They want us to vote on the compact, but what is in it for us?Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet Patriot