INDIAN WATER COMPACTS COVER UP A CENTURY OF INDIAN LAND FRAUDS

INDIAN WATER COMPACTS COVER UP A CENTURY OF INDIAN LAND FRAUDS

No water compact can be approved by Congress until the century old Indian land claims concerning property disputes originally held by Indians are cleared up. The Supreme Court ruled that “retroactive validation” or “extinguishment” of Indian land claims must be preceded by a determination that “no fraud or imposition” had been practiced upon the Indian landowner from whom the deed was originally purchased, and that retroactive validation of tainted title is “destructive” perpetuating an injustice and defeating claims of swindled Indians. The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council and Chairman Earl Old Person had prior knowledge of swindled Blackfeet Indians in the enactment of Resolution #224-2001 passed by the tribal council in August, 2001. The resolution called for a Senate Indian Affairs Committee investigation of the “Forced Fee Patents Cases” on the Blackfeet Reservation, the return of trust titles to the original Blackfeet Allottees and Heirs, and refund of all taxes and revenues originating from said Blackfeet lands, minerals and resources. The senate lawyer told us the amount would be $300,000,000 to the heirs of the Blackfeet allottees, which is now estimated to be $600,000,000. Chairman Old Person is well aware of the claims since he has served on the council since 1954 and we brought the claims to him in 1980, 2001, 2005, and 2013 prior to tribal council approval of the water compact. In fact, the tribal council throwed me out of the water compact meeting at the tribal office with federal, state, and county government officials when I tried to bring up our land claims. We met with Earl Old Person in his office on the land claims and he threatened to rescind the resolution requesting the Senate Indian Affairs Committee investigation of our allotted land claims. Prior to approving the water compact the tribal council should have recommended that action be brought to set aside all sales, deeds, and mortgages of Blackfeet allotted land titles taken in Glacier and Pondera county courts and transferred to white men in void Patent-in-Fee titles now existent on the reservation by illegal land transactions. Criminal indictments by the United States Attorney for Montana should be brought against persons shown to be guilty of conspiracy in connection with these illegal Blackfeet land transactions including the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council and Chairman Old Person, who had prior knowledge of the illegal land transfers and refused to request the senate investigations and he impeded the senate committee from holding hearings on the reservation violating resolution #224-2001, thereby violating the trust of the Blackfeet people that he represents. The Assistant United States Attorney told me that, yes, they were aware of the forced patents land frauds, but had no intentions of prosecuting the Indian land claims. The United States Government is a co-conspirator in the Indian land frauds, who not only swindled the illiterate Indian landowners, wards of the government, but prepared the applications for fee patents and prepared affidavits on which to base patents-in-fee applications with the intent to deceive the Secretary of the Interior and the General Land Office of the United States. There is evidence that hundreds of Blackfeet landowners, Indian wards were placed in the unheated agency jail, in forty degree below zero weather in 1919-1922, by the agency superintendant and died of exposure, or were made to sign papers to avoid being sent to the penitentiary on false charges, or sent to the state insane asylum by the superintendant, and the agent became his representative and sold his land to white men, and that children were starved and robbed by forcing them to make their mark on an application for a fee patent and robbed by the agency trader for bills, and absolute forgery in deeds signed over to white men for liens and tax deeds issued by Glacier and Pondera county courts to take Indian property. That is how the white man got on the Blackfeet Reservation. President Reagan tossed out 17,000 individual Indian claims in 1983 violating Public Law 96-217, Section 2, mandating the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States to prepare legislative proposals to send to Congress to restore Indian titles, or to litigate Indian claims, but President Reagan decided to stonewall all Indian claims, and end the claims forever. Congress is well aware of this sordid history of Indian claims but has done nothing to protect the treaty Indians to this day, and therefore are co-conspirators to the century old Indian land claims. It is a world public spectacle and a diplomatic shame for the United States of America to travel the world pointing their fingers at dictators and human rights violators when these Indian land claims will be ended forever in the water compacts sentencing the heirs of the original treaty Indians to endless poverty caused by the Indian treaty promises yet unfulfilled. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell was on the Blackfeet Reservation last year and made remarks to the effect on the poor Blackfeet who seem to be suffering, but did not comment on her status as a co-conspirator in upholding the century old Blackfeet land claims. The Blackfeet people have been faithful to the United States since the 1855 Treaty was agreed to allowing settlers safe passage through Blackfoot Confederacy lands to Oregon Territory, and sent back small pox to the Indians. I cannot reach President Obama, but maybe the people of the world can shame the Congress of the United States to finally provide justice for a class of Indian people defrauded by the richest nation on Earth. Send your protests to THEWHITEHOUSE.COM, PLEASE!

Bob Juneau. Blackfeet Heir to stolen lands of my great-grandmothers E-MAIL, blkftpatriot@yahoo.com

AUTHOR: “The Sacred Buffalo Vision” History of Indian genocide in Montana, @ Amazon.com