TRIBAL GOVERNMENT REFORM NEEDED TO SAVE THE PEOPLE FROM CORRUPTION

TRIBAL GOVERNMENT REFORM NEEDED TO SAVE THE PEOPLE FROM CORRUPTION

Suffering among destitute tribal members is rising every year even as more money pours into tribal coffers and disappears into that black hole of 099 the infamous tribal council account. Where is the money from the casino, hotel, oil leases, grazing leases, and $192,000,000 in treaty obligation federal funds for tribal housing, college, health, alcohol & drug programs, headstart, job training funds, I.H.S. and BIA programs and services for less than 8,000 tribal members who actually live on the reservation, the other 8,000 are refugees living in little Browning in Pablo, Seattle, Missoula etc. Where does all this money go to and who is stealing from the poor fund? The Forensic Audit found pilfering in tribal funds but the council tossed it in the trash like they always do. Where is the U.S. Attorney when tribal and federal funds are robbed leaving us cold and hungry. The self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry is gone to council third-party leases that sub-lease to white men for $5 per acre of the best grazing land in the west. The ghost of Joe Sherburne haunts the tribal office, an evil man who murdered hundreds of Blackfeet landowners during the allotment period 1912-1922 in complicity with BIA officials who tossed the Blackfeet chiefs in the agency jail to stop them from boarding the train to protest to Congress, so our tribal attorney Robert Hamilton lobbied Congress to stop the murders and land frauds. The Indian land titles were robbed in Glacier and Pondera county court for tax deeds and liens filed by Joe Sherburne and his crowd of murderers, the Commercial Clubs surrounding the reservation in Cut Bank, Conrad, and Valier of white supremacists-who started the racist “Montanans Opposing Discrimination” that came out of Glacier County in the 1980’s to end our treaty rights and steal our land and water. BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL VIOLATIONS OF THE INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT: 1. To establish a Blackfeet Cattle Ranchers Association, and use tribal credit to purchase cattle, and establish a cattle ranchers cooperative to process “cuts of beef” to retail and wholesale markets to supply the government and tribal food programs. 2. Preserve profits for Blackfeet landowners and ranchers by “cutting out the [white rancher] middleman” and third-party tribal members who sub-lease tribal and allotted land to white ranchers and pocket the profits for themselves. 3. Organize business charters to develop individual businesses for tribal landowners. 4. Establish “citizenship of cattle” on the reservation-Blackfeet cattle only allowed to graze on reserved tribal lands. 5. Eliminate tribal council land board and replace it with cattle ranchers and trust landowners land board to make decisions on tribal and allotted land use. 6. Reserve all water sources and grazing tracts for Blackfeet cattle ranchers per the 1896 Agreement/Article Five-special treaty rights of Blackfeet cattle ranchers. 7. Establish Home Rule in all districts on the reservation. 8. Reserve all water compact money for tribal members per capita payments, cattle ranchers cattle purchase, retail business loans, arts & crafts association to market Blackfeet traditional products to Glacier Park tourists, small business loans, equipment and subsidy for tribal ranchers, arts & crafts entrepreneurs, construction of Blackfeet Culture Center, Youth Center, equipment for free-range egg production, layers, and broilers, pork processing plant, retail and wholesale sales to the Government food programs, schools, bottled water sales, and everything else!  This will end the white apartheid system and council corruption that keeps us poor, We need to have organizing meetings to get our projects funded with the compact money. Bob Juneau Sr.