There has always been racketeering in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a rogue federal agency within the Interior Department, which has kept the Indians poor for centuries by complicity in the federal trusteeship of Indian lands under treaty with the United States. A system of white-apartheid grew by illegal state incorporation of stolen Indian lands converted to "Patent-in-Fee" titles in Glacier County court for the border-whites. Stolen Blackfeet treaty lands have been annexed, along with Blackfeet water rights by the Montana Legislature in 1919, in enacting "reservation/county" white-apartheid territory over free treaty Indians. Mr. Cullen was adopted into the Blackfeet Tribe and given the name of "Chief Medicine Talk" in hopes that he would assist the Indians to overcome the complicity of the Bureau of Indian Affairs by his "oil man's" political power over Congress and to bring the tribe to self-support, if not riches. Councilman Leo Kennerly opened the council meeting by stating, "We want to treat this meeting as strictly confidential because as soon as some of these [white] stockmen, oil men, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs know there is a possibility of getting financial aid to do our own developing for livestock, oil, and tourism, we all know what will immediately happen. I want to thank you gentlemen for coming in here. The Cullen interests haven't arrived at any particular program yet." Mr. Cullen addresses the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council: "Gentlemen, we have spent several days now being conducted over the reservation. I am trying to show you the vast development you can do. You have unlimited resources on this reservation. I understand the Government is trying to put a squeeze play on the Indians and take this away from the Indians. It would be a terrible tragedy for the Indians to lose, what in my opinion, is a financial empire to be developed here; you have ranching and farming that could be developed into an industry, there is a great profit in the refining of oil, you have timber here, a pulp mill to be developed into a lumber industry, and Theodore Last Star was telling me about a tourist attraction that could be combined with a hotel resort for the millions of Glacier Park tourists. Just your oil alone is worth a billion dollars all told, and there is a great profit in refining oil, if even three or four of eight prospects proves productive to any extent your financial worries will be over. The Reagan oil field is ridiculous that field is being developed at the rate it is, we know how to build a fire under the oil companies to get that oil field developed. We will not take any money, will not ask anything of the one-eighth royalty, but we would like to split 50-50 with you all that we make over and above the one-eighth royalty. It is ridiculous you have government personnel here and they do nothing for you. I understand the Blackfeet Tribe has unlimited powers to break away from the federal government under its treaty, that the tribe can more or less write their own ticket as to eventually become independent, probably with one exception that the land cannot be sold and it cannot be mortgaged. What I want to say, is you have unlimited possibilities in natural resources on this reservation. I have never seen such an opportunity to build a financial empire all accumulated in one spot, it is all here. It is a vast proposition and is going to be organized on a vast scale. You have so many phases. If you do not do it on that scale, well, it is like trying to cut down a Sequoia tree with a pocket knife." Councilman Leo Kennerly had the right idea but he could not overcome the combined conspiracy of the BIA, Glacier County white-apartheid, and the crooked oil men in Cut Bank draining the reservation of a billion dollars worth of oil while the BIA held up production of Blackfeet prospects. Powerful corporations like the Great Northern Railway owners, father & son robber barons James J. Hill and his son Louis, who are responsible for murdering hundreds of Blackfeet landowners by starving them until they died of malnutrition related diseases and illnesses, or frozen to death in forty degree below zero weather in the unheated agency jail by the agency jailer; the cruelest convict in the Montana Penitentiary brought to the reservation by the Blackfeet Agent. He was given a Blackfeet land allotment, an Indian wife, and a salary to torture the Indians into signing "forced Patents" opening their trust lands [tax-free] to the jurisdiction of the Montana border-whites racketeering. That is how the white man got on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Today it is the Blackfeet water resources that is in the sights of border-whites covetous eyes, and the century-old Blackfeet forced patents are not a part of the settlement on the water compact, and the stolen lands of my great-grandmothers will remain in the hands of border-whites because the water compact is forever! Please, Vote No on the Blackfeet Water Compact! It is just more money for the tribal council to piss away and billions of dollars for the border-whites to drain our water from under our feet while we watch!
Bob Juneau, the last treaty Indian.
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