CORPORATE CONQUEST OF ALL AMERICAN’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

CORPORATE CONQUEST OF ALL AMERICAN’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Origins of Economic Apartheid Systems on Indian Reservations in the United States  

The common factor initiating Indian land frauds is complicity of Congress enacting bills introduced by western states congressmen targeted to destroy treaty protection of Indian property managed by a federal trusteeship. State legislatures enacted “reservation/county” exclusive white jurisdictions upon Indian reservations. County court judges severed Indian land titles that provided void Patent-in-Fee titles to border-whites. The “Code of the West” maxim means no white man would testify against another white man in cases involving Indians. Cattlemen’s courts and judges decisions in Montana created “reservation/county” white territories on sovereign Indian reservations.  

Blackfeet property rights usurped by the Montana Legislature, Farmers Union, National Cattlemen’s Association, All Citizens Equal and Montanan’s Opposing Discrimination white supremacy organizations whose stated goal is to repeal Indian treaty rights. Glacier County government officials, United States Indian Agents and border-whites murdered hundreds of Blackfeet landowners 1913-1922 on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Glacier County border-whites own patent-in-fee allotments in every township on the reservation checker-boarded with Indian lands for political/economic control of the entire Blackfeet Reservation economy by white economic-apartheid.  

Breaking Glacier County Economic-Apartheid on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation        

President George Washington sent the Indian Trade and Non-Intercourse Act of 1790 to the Continental Congress to protect Indian treaty lands from depredations [“to plunder, to despoil, to lay waste”] of “states and speculators” prohibiting purchase of Indian property without prior approval of Congress and consent of the Indians.   

Glacier County is a white-apartheid “reservation/county” enacted by the Montana Legislature on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in 1919 to provide Patent-in-Fee titles to border-whites squatting on hundreds of stolen Blackfeet land allotments held by treaty.

Mrs. Mabel Monroe-Bond was a teenage Blackfoot girl in 1919, robbed along with her younger sister by Joe Sherburne, licensed agency trader, James J. Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway, and Glacier County Attorney Frisbee. The Monroe sisters owned land allotments located at the eastern entrance to Glacier Park, providing a right-of-way from the Blackfoot Highway to the entrance of Glacier Park at St. Mary Village.

The United States Government breach of fiduciary duty to Indian Wards in connection to corporate racketeering in real estate scams of Indian lands is documented in many Investigations and Hearings of Congress since 1904. Federal trusteeship is the highest legal standard for protection of Government Wards. A treaty signed by the United States Congress provided self-rule for Blackfeet Indians on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation under protections contained in the Constitution of the United States. Indian treaty rights are special contracts and agreements to accomplish economic goals in fulfilling treaty promises made by Congress in exchange for Indian land cessions.

In 1922, United States Senate Indian Committee Investigator Walter W. Liggett reported, “Scores of patent fees were issued to the Indians without the Indians having made applications for the same in clear defiance of the law. The issuance of the patent meant that the Indian was defrauded of his land consisting of 312.250 acres of the most valuable acreage of the reservation carried out by government agents and local whites.    

President Reagan trashes 17,000 individual Indian land claims to 100 million acres

In 1944, in U.S. vs. Glacier County and U.S. vs. Frisbee, Indian property frauds by real estate sharks, government officers, state legislatures, western states congressmen, corporations, individuals, and federal trustees of Indian property were charged in Federal District Court, and found guilty of illegal transfers of Indian titles to land and minerals.

In 1983, Covelo Indian Community, Plaintiff, vs. Secretary of the Interior James Watt and Attorney General of the United States, Defendants; Plaintiffs won summary judgments in class-action lawsuits to restore alienated Indian land trust titles for 17,000 individual Indian landowners claims to one hundred million acres of Indian lands.

Blackfeet lands robbed by Louis Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway include 1,200 Blackfeet Forced Fee Patents, Secretarial Sales of Deceased Indian Lands, and tribal oil structures on the Blackfeet Reservation that produced one billion dollars.

. President Ronald Reagan violated Public Law 96-217, Section 2, passed by Congress in 1983 to provide Just Compensation for Indian landowner’s loss of land, minerals, revenues, and future income. Just Compensation and Institutional Equity would seem to provide legal muscle to enforce the rule of law in massive land frauds of Indian property by federal trustees and corporate racketeering of reservation land and treaty rights of the Blackfeet Indians. The treaty is the sacred word of the treaty partners. President Reagan trashed President George Washington’s law to honor Indian treaties.  

United States Congress Complicity in Centuries of Indian Land Frauds

 The Indians could not violate treaties without suffering massacres and prisoner of war status. My grandmother’s tribe, the Oneida, brought corn to starving Revolutionary War soldiers at Valley Forge, and an Oneida woman, Polly Cooper taught the soldiers how to prepare the corn and cook it properly. Martha Washington invited her to the White House after the Revolutionary War and presented her a shawl. The Oneida tribe has land claims originating to the Indian Trade and Non-Intercourse Act of 1790.

President Lincoln in 1865 wrote, “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that un-nerve’s me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As result of the [Civil] war, corporations have been enthroned. An era of corruption in high places will follow and the MONEY POWER of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people.”

President Teddy Roosevelt, no “injun lover” agreed with the frontier maxim “the only good Indian is a dead Indian” nevertheless vetoed a Bill introduced by Senator Walsh of Montana, enacted by Congress that would have deprived the Blackfeet Indians of their reserved water rights on the Blackfeet Reservation. Mr. Roosevelt explained the bill would only benefit corporate “trusts” and not the Indians who owned the water. Great Northern Railway owner James J. Hill was given 400 million acres of public lands of the United States as he chugged westward toward Indian Country in the 1880’s.

The Blackfeet people survived 30 years of massacre, small pox, famine, whiskey trade, and removals in physical genocidal attacks by Montana Confederate’s policy of “extermination” of the Blackfeet Indians. Tribal population dropped from 7,800 in 1863 to just 1,811 Blackfeet treaty Indians left alive by 1890. The Blackfeet ceded 17,000,000 acres to the United States in 1887 to be paid in cattle and equipment over ten years.

The Blackfeet cattle ranchers brought the tribe back from near extinction in 1893 by a self-reliant cattle industry of 500 cattle ranchers, 25,000 cattle, shipping steers to Chicago Stockyards, building homes, barns, chicken coops, fencing, vegetable gardens, root cellars, selling beef and hay to the agency generating cash for all needful things.

 A gold rush developed in 1895 that did not find placer gold in the mountain lands of the reservation, but the tribal land cession of one million acres turned into Glacier Park tourist gold rush for James J. Hill’s hotels in Glacier Park that generate $168 million.  

A tribal genocide to force the Indians to sign away their lands from 1913 to 1922 murdered hundreds of Blackfeet landowners frozen in the unheated agency jail in forty degree below zero weather, and child landowners deaths caused by the agent died of malnutrition related diseases, and lymphatic tuberculosis epidemics in boarding schools.

One hundred and fifty Blackfeet soldiers, “Doughboys” fought on the Fields of France in World War One. Twenty veterans returned home to find their aged parents being starved by the agent, Great Northern Railway owner James J. Hill, Swift & Company, and Glacier County officials to force Blackfeet signatures on trust lands, and they joined their parents in dying by the roadside for want of food and medical care.   

Louis Hill, son of James J. Hill was diligently pilfering Blackfeet oil structures in 1944 while my father was fighting as a rifleman in General Patton’s Tank Corp. killing Hitler’s Nazi’s in World War Two. He helped to save Jewish death camp victims.  

Congress and the Executive Branch fail to provide Just Compensation for the Indians

In 1979, President Carter sent his Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs to testify under oath to Congress, “Litigation was thought inappropriate in these cases because the United States Government would have to sue itself on behalf of its Indian wards.”

In 1983, President Reagan defied Public Law 96-217, Section 2 passed by Congress to provide Just Compensation for 17,000 individual Indian landowners on Indian reservations across the United States to recover 100 million acres of Indian lands stolen by “speculators and states.” James Watt, Secretary of the Interior notified Congress President Reagan opposed extensions of the statute of limitations on all of the Indian claims thereby extinguishing 17,000 individual Indian claims.

Senator Cohen, Chair of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs noted, “If the Reagan administration Interior and Justice Departments are allowed to succeed in their plan to let the statute of limitations run out, the remainder of 17,000 Indian claims covering land, minerals, and water rights of the Indians will be extinguished.”    

I was in Washington D.C. in the 1980’s trying to resolve century-old land frauds of Blackfeet landowners like my great-grandmother’s lands stolen by the Montana Legislature, Glacier County, Bureau of Indian Affairs, General Land Office of the United States, white ranchers, and corporate vultures like James J. Hill, Swift & Armor, Texaco.

            President Obama’s Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel was in Browning last week to encourage the Blackfeet Indians to sell land fragments to the tribe instead of taking responsibility for Executive Branch Conspiracy in defrauding thousands of Blackfeet trust landowners in complicity of the Secretary of the Interior.

Sally Jewel is a billionaire developer of outdoor recreation properties near national parks, but she never uttered a word to support Blackfeet cultural tourism industry development. Why should Sally Jewel enforce the rule of law on an Indian reservation adjacent to Glacier Park? It might set a legal precedent for all tourism developers.

A Century of  Economic Apartheid of the rich one percent ”Trusts”     

In U.S. Senate Hearings in 1912, held to examine the issue, “Trusts vs. the Populace” documented in the book, The Titanic by Wyn Craig Wade tells the story of the disaster of the sinking of the Titanic. The senate hearing concluded the “House of Morgan Trust” could not be held economically responsible for corporate negligence in the drowning deaths of 1,500 Titanic passengers drowned at sea when the ship struck an iceberg plowing full steam ahead despite several warnings of an ice field in its path.

I am the Last Treaty Indian fighting for my great-grandmothers stolen land to the  end

I am a dead treaty-Indian. For over a century my people starved to death, each generation in turn suffering famines inflicted by white supremacists squatting on the reservation. The United States Government chose to protect the corporate thief, and now that corporate thief is a threat to destroy the constitutional rights and privileges of all Americans, as though it is just another Indian tribe in the way of corporate greed.

The Indian water compact settlements forced on Indian tribes by Congress ends FOREVER, all past, and future Indian claims. We are dead Indians, no longer free treaty Indians living on our own reservations. Corporate power over Congress ended my great, grandmothers century-old land claims, and we, her heirs are welfare people now. Donald Trump, billionaire is the tip of the corporate iceberg history of economic domination by robber barons James J. Hill and his son Louis Hill, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller etc.   

“Slow-Death Measures” Suicide Genocides hit the American Middle-Class

The AARP Bulletin of June 2016 reported, “A surge of suicides in recent years, especially among boomers and Generation X  has raised concerns that many middle-aged Americans are suffering from financial despair in the wake of the Great Recession. Government figures released in April show that suicide rates soared from 1999 to 2014 and accelerated after 2006 when the nation was jolted by a housing crisis followed by a long period of joblessness. Rising sharply among nearly all age groups except those 75 and older, the suicide rate grew by 24 percent to reach an average of 13 for every 100,000 people, the highest rate in 30 years. The biggest increase in suicide rates for both women and men was in the age group 45 to 64. The data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics found a rising sense of hopelessness among middle-aged Americans, especially those with limited education and skills. Increased suicides are related to job loss, foreclosure, and bankruptsy-not related to the recession.”

“Past is Prologue” etched above the National Archives Building in Washington D.C.

            Origins of the rich one percent are stored in the national archives in the Records of Indian Affairs. “Bankers more despotic than monarchy, systematically corrupt the United States, the Earth to be their inheritance.” Indian people are genocide survivors, the Indian reservations set aside by the rich, exploited for profits through the centuries.  Oceans are garbage pits, the land is sterile except by pouring fertilizers and pesticides onto crops that produce higher yields with less protein, unpolluted water is scarce, topsoil in Montana is less than an inch deep, forests are rotting from insects unknown just a century ago spawned by climate change, humans worked like animals in minimum wage bondage, providing more money for rich corporations. Slow death genocide is upon us.