The reservation/county is the bastard child of King George and Scarlett O'Hara's southern plantation bred in Montana Territory by the confederate renegades captured by the Union Army, sent up the Missouri River to Blackfoot Confederacy lands held by the 1855 Treaty, wisely containing a clause protecting the Indians from "Depredations of white men passing through, or living in their country, may commit" The Blackfeet Chiefs knew border-whites had already murdered and raped their way across the lands of other tribes, and that it would be a hard work to survive the coming onslaught of the civilization and Christianity of the whites. In the period of 1863-1890 the population of the Blackfeet Indians dropped from 7,800 to just 1,811 left alive. Civilization included massacre, small-pox, whiskey trade, land thefts, extermination of four million buffalo, and Indian removals to tiny reservations suffering poverty due to thefts of Indian land and cash leaving the Indians nearly dead. Congress hatched a conspiracy concocted by western states congressmen by introducing bills leaving the way open to robbing the Indians forever. The reservation/county was invented by the Montana Legislature in 1919 to convert thousands of Indian land titles to patent-in-fee titles of white men after the Indian title was severed in county courts where Indians were not considered citizens, could not vote, could not hold public office, and are still under the "prisoner's dilemma" of being subjected to white rule, state law and county courts whereby the "code of the west" will not allow the white man to vote against another white man in court cases concerning Indians. In Congress, the western states congressmen take their orders from the corporations against the family farm in many cases where the corporate interests outweigh the private property constitutional rights of individuals who do not possess lobbying cash to sway congressmen to their benefit. One man said in the frontier days that if James J. Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway, could get a church to hold benefits to pay for the costs of his steel rails, he would smile most broadly and take food from the mouths of babes to save a penny. He was given "free stuff" by Congress, 400 million acres of public lands, got by an Act of Congress and he was given free Indian lands adjacent to national parks for his hotels for tourists but made the Indians dance for tourists fed with table scraps and passed the hat for their pay. The illiterate Blackfeet landowners and their heirs have been starved for over a century now, with 80% unemployment rate, no cattle herds left after border-whites rustled their herds and the border-whites moved onto their reservation lands as a "reservation/county" It's kind of like King George's soldiers living in English colonists homes, to feed the bums and put up with arrogant attitudes of parasitic British Royalty was too much and sparked a revolution. Corporate quartering of King George's troops has reached the so-called American middle-class, who now feel threatened by the usurpation of their constitutional and economic rights represented by loud mouth corporate shill Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. Welcome to the Indian reservation and Black ghetto white middle-class, there is nowhere to go but down from here. President George Bush has taught the nation it can be destroyed in an instant, from within and not the long decay like Rome. The nations of the world have a buyers choice in world markets that neutralizes the American military as the critical factor in the immediate future if the world is to survive. President Obama has cleaned up after Bush's war left the nation and world broke and divided, but the war isn't that important in the world politics. Conquering world poverty, however it is done or whatever name or philosophy or religious belief it carries, it must be first and then the world will have a chance to heal and new ideas can come forth to use our planet wisely. The Indians will never get justice for all the Indian genocides while western Congressmen rule, but a world ban on the blood-money beef and crops produced on stolen Indian lands called "reservation/counties" will produce justice that will never come out of racist Congress.
Bob Juneau Sr. author of "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" on how Indians survived corporate genocides available on Amazon.Com.
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