The United States Government has a nasty habit of giving away Indian property to the latest robber barons in control of Congress. James J. Hill and his son Louis Hill bedeviled the Blackfeet Indians for a century with no end in sight, as Congress passed a bill in 1912 to give Blackfoot property to James Hill for his railway and hotels, and valued the property @ $10 per acre "because these sites have a special use value due to their locations near entrance to Glacier Park, that the special use value of the grant of Blackfoot lands to Louis Hill." The U.S. Government Indian Claims Commission does not put a "value" on life-long pain and suffering of Mrs. Mabel Monroe-Bond, who was robbed by the Hill's as a child only because her and her younger sisters land allotments were at the entrance to Glacier Park at St. Mary Village; a township built on Monroe's property. Hills hotels in Midvale are also built on Blackfoot property; and after impoverishing the Indians, Louis Hill had a thieves mind, to not only steal the Indian property, but also to steal the Indian culture, and the "Glacier Park" Indian dance troupe was born for Blackfeet chiefs to dance for tourists at Hills hotels; the entertainers paid by tourists change as Louis Hill passed the blanket, and he fed the chiefs table scraps scraped from tourists dinner plates. Today, we, the Blackfeet landowners cannot sell our pure waters to China as the global bottled water market for bottled "Indian" water sales is outlawed in the water compact; approved by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee without any consideration of our century old land claims like the Hill's hotels property robbed from teenage girls, Blackfeet allottees, the Monroe sisters, 12 and 14 year old minors at the time. And, what about the hundreds of Blackfeet landowners starved to death in the massive land frauds during 1913-1922 killed for their land titles, and many Indians tortured in the unheated agency jail where dissenters were slowly frozen to death listed as natural causes. A Montana border-white owns Blackfeet land titles in Glacier County, a white apartheid territory transplanted upon the stolen Indian lands. Now our water rights are usurped in the compact without any consent of the Indian landowners. I am a Vietnam veteran, my father was a rifleman in Patton's Tank Corp. and he helped to liberate the Jewish death camps in Europe, and my son is a Desert Storm Gulf War veteran, but do we get justice for our murdered grandmothers, and usurpation of our water rights by the same corporations that robbed my grandma's lands. Chinese Government Purchasers were on the Blackfeet Reservation a few years ago, and wished to buy Blackfeet beef, water, oil, and any other product we have to market, and we are sitting on an ocean of pure water, but the border-whites and corporations are set up to suck the water from under our property, all legal of course; the Indians too poor to drill, while corporate interests get richer!
The level of protest must come from global water markets to purchase Indian products free of corporate interference and deny Congress' approval of economic apartheid on Indian reservations.
There must be a honest person somewhere in the world to help us Indian landowners out of human economic bondage in America! Protest to THEWHITEHOUSE.COM. Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet.
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