While we sit back or are tossed out of water compact meetings at the tribal office the whites have got our water rights to the entire western reservation watershed, St. Mary and Milk Rivers, tributaries and snow run-off and glacial melt from Glacier Park, and we got nothing! In 1980 the Bureau of Indian Affairs Report stated that it would take "fifty years and fifty million dollars before the full extent of beneficial use of water could be achieved. The limiting factor for water usage on the Blackfeet Indian lands is the "money." The Blackfeet Indian Reservation has a vast availability of water that can be utilized for water marketing of tribal and allotted trust lands but water usage on trust lands is very minimal. The danger for us is the "water wars" due to begin as soon as the water compact is signed and approved by the Blackfeet voters, and then it is "drill baby drill" as millions in profits from our water resources will go to whites because who will drill our water wells? The BIA? The rule of law is the "Rule of Capture" where your white neighbor will drain your trust property because it is legal. The tribal council did not protect allotted water rights in the compact except to claim it for themselves and all the money too. Today our" Pure" waters of the reservation streams are the most valuable resource on the planet, but before they reach Cut Bank are polluted by oil companies and farmers, so our water is drinking quality worth more money than oil-piss water of border-whites in Glacier County living on our stolen allotted lands. Did we have a say in the water compact negotiations? Or do we vote "blind" like in tribal council elections and just take a chance at "forever" which water compacts project. This is the "final solution" of the Congress to get rid of the "Indian problem" once and for all by his own hand in the final vote in the water compacts, which we do not understand, but are expected to vote on soon! What do we know? The tribal council under Earl rejected our water rights claims and threw me out of the meeting when I brought up our forced patents claims sitting in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee since 2001. We saved our century old claims which "our fore-fathers and fore-mothers and fore-children, and fore-babies, and fore-infants and fore-babies in the belly fought and died to keep our land. "Nits make lice" was the cry of Montana confederates and Texas cattle kings intent on genocide of the Black-Foot Indians led by Montana Governor Meagher celebrated in Helena saloons scalp tossing of Piegan women, children, old men & women, and babies and "simply danced with delight" for the massacre of Chief Heavy Runner's band, but that was in the past our chief and council says, we have to learn to live together on our land as brothers. Is there any more pitiful thing in the world than an uncle tomahawk who sells his people for favors of whites? The water compact represents the United Nations "Slow-Death Measures" genocide where a targeted people [Blackfeet Allottees] are denied property rights, looted and pillaged by the criminal class of politicians, who reduce the targeted group to poverty where they die in poor housing, poor health care, poor diets, diabetes epidemic, early deaths, no jobs, no hope, and the slow decay of a once vibrant, rich, free, treaty-Indian to a second-class status in Glacier and Pondera Counties on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation where the border-whites own the productive lands of the Blackfeet by massive land frauds called forced fee patents cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation given up by the tribal council in the water compact with no more concern than kicking a dog. Do we even know what is in the water compact? WATER COMPACTS ARE FOREVER!
Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet Patriot and Entrepreneur, watch this space for major announcement!
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