The "settlement" of America has been a treasure hunt on Indian lands by whites, causing Indian removals to make room for expansion of white-Americans, "free Indian land" until Indian treasures are depleted, but every new generation in America brings another treasure hunt on Indian reservations. This time it is water! Corporate America has poisoned most of America's landscape and farmers and ranchers have poisoned farm and range lands with pesticides and fertilizers, and the topsoil in Montana is down to one inch, and then the dirt storms begin anew like the Oklahoma "dust bowl" that caused mass migrations to California for the poor "okies." The Blackfeet people live under a "plantation on the reservation." A white-apartheid territory transplanted onto the reservation by the Montana Legislature in 1919, created "reservation/county" governments built upon stolen Indian property. "Jobbery" is defined as "underhanded means to secure private-ends at public expense." In the robbery of Indian property by changing the titles and sovereign status of the Indians to dependent people instead of Sovereign Treaty-Indians per our treaty with the United States since 1855. The Blackfeet Water Compact has been signed by the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, approved by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in Washington D.C. without any mention of white plantation on the reservation, and void patent-in-fee lands of white men robbed from illiterate Indians. Both of my great-grandmothers, who were successful cattle ranchers until robbed by white men in Cut Bank, Montana, the racist border-town guilty of murdering hundreds of Blackfeet landowners to get their lands with the complicity of the United States Congress! Now, the border-whites are rewarded with title to my grandma's lands and water rights in the water compact. We, the Blackfeet landowners, were not afforded an opportunity to testify on our behalf, in fact, I was tossed out of the state-federal-tribal water compact meeting at the tribal office on the Blackfeet Reservation. I will not vote for this fraudulent water agreement that simply pays off tribal politicians, who should be in federal prison for stealing tribal dollars. The "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" approved by Congress in 1983, but rejected in the water compact by the tribal council for cash payments. Tribal Government operates with no separation-of-powers in the tribal constitution; it is like the Iraq government whereby the head man in charge ran away with Iraqi money, and left the country broke and shattered, but he got his cash, and that was all that mattered! There are no restraints on the border-whites who have already drained billions of dollars of oil from under Blackfeet lands, now it is legal to drain our pure waters, signed off by tribal leaders. I will continue to fight for my grandmothers land rights, but hope is nearly gone when my chiefs join the border-whites against thousands of Blackfeet landowners, who were murdered by the same border-whites who occupy our lands, and discriminate against us in bank loans. This is a human rights case, but most nations are too gutless to challenge the United States apartheid on Indian reservations, but I will continue my protest in federal court and in publicizing the corrupt water compact, which is another historical injustice.
Bob Juneau Sr. author of "Sacred Buffalo Vision" on Amazon.Com. history of apartheid in America
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