BLACKFEET CHIEF 'BLACKMAILED' TO SUPPRESS LAND CLAIMS

It is true that Blackfeet Chief Earl Old Person is guilty of incest and rape of his sisters child and has two children by her. Blackfeet traditional leaders investigated the charges and she verified it is true that he began raping her while her mother was laying in her casket at a wake in Starr School. I was told by his brother and nephew that during the wake of Earl's sister, that they had to drag Earl off of the child in the next room where his sister lay in her casket, and that Earl came back later that night and raped the child again. Chairman Old Person was known to use his powers as chairman of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to rape impoverished Indian women who came to the tribal office for help in paying electric bills or to purchase food for their children. Earl would force them into sex in order to receive cash assistance from the tribal hardship program. He traveled the nation with his concubines and layed up in Washington D.C. with prostitutes instead of doing tribal business. His incest and rape are known to federal and state law enforcement officials and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials who use him to suppress our land claims. The Cobell Case listed Earl Old Person as a co-plaintiff until they found out he was passing confidential information to his handlers at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior, who are defendants in robbing $3.5 billion from Indian Money Accounts. The Blackfeet Forced Fee Patents cases are part of a nationwide system of white-apartheid on Indian reservations whereby 17,000 individual Indian landowners were robbed by white men and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials. President Carter sent his Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs to testify under oath to Congress that the United States Government was guilty of complicity in the massive forced patents cases covering 100 million acres of Indian land robbed by states and real estate sharks. President Reagan tossed the 17,000 individual Indian land claims in the trash can and stonewalled efforts by Congress to provide justice for the heirs of original Indian landowners robbed by the government. Congress passed Public Law 96-217, Section 2, to provide justice for the 17,000 Indian landowners after a century of injustice, but President Reagan would not comply with the law and the Indian claims remain unresolved today. The Blackfeet Water Compact will "extinguish" all past, present, and future Blackfeet Indian land claims, forever. Chairman Old Person approved the Blackfeet Water Compact which is in Congress right now.  There is no doubt that federal officials have used Chief Old Person to suppress our forced patent claims since they will be defendants in the claims. I talked with the United States Attorney, who told me that, yes, they knew all about the forced patents claims, but had no plans to prosecute the claims despite Public Law 96-217, Section 2, a federal law that orders the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior to either litigate the Indian claims or to prepare legislative proposals to send to Congress to restore stolen Indian property with just compensation to the heirs of original Indian allottees robbed by the United States Government. President Reagan was taunted by South African apartheid government leaders and Communist Russian leaders for maintaining white-apartheid on Indian reservations in the United States. They were and are correct! The stolen Indian land allotments are now called "reservation/counties" by state legislatures to cover up the origins of massive Indian land frauds, and that is how the white man got on Indian reservations. Is this America and Christian values? President Obama has never been requested by Chairman Old Person to restore our stolen lands. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Secretary of the Interior or the United States Attorney General have not requested President Obama to litigate the 17,000 Indian land claims to 100 million acres stolen on Indian reservations across the United States creating white-apartheid land bases on sovereign Indian land. We live in poverty on our own reservations while white ranchers profit from stolen Indian lands. I have written a Blackfeet history of the land frauds, "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" available on Amazon.Com. but very few sales have resulted nor has the media been interested in exposing white-apartheid on Indian reservations in the United States. The world needs to know this sordid history.
Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

$350,000 TRIBAL COUNCIL "CULTURE FUND" UP FOR GRABS

Since the defeat of Earl Old Person on the tribal council his use of the $350,000 culture fund for his personal uses is up for grabs; it was set aside originally for Blackfeet traditional crafts people to organize the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative to sell crafts to Glacier Park tourists. Blackfeet women were the founders of the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative. Ethel B. Arnett, Director of the Works Progress Administration wrote in 1937, "The movement began when a small group of Indian women on the Two Medicine River-Mary Little Bull, Mary Little Plume, Angeline Williamson, Cecile Horn, Nellie Buel, Cecile Tailfeathers, Rose Big Beaver, Margaret Middle Calf, and Nora Spanish were encouraged by Mrs. Jessie Schultz, local welfare official, to make costumes to be sold at the Sun Ceremony encampment. Their experiment turned out well and three other women in Browning-Louise Berry Child, Gertrude No Chief, and Annie Calf Looking were pioneers in the Blackfeet crafts movement that organized local crafts groups, and paved the way for the formation of the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative Society in April, 1937 to encourage Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Culture and Traditions. The $350,000 Blackfeet Culture Fund controlled by the tribal council was supposed to fund self-help efforts of traditional communities to make a living on the sale of crafts to Glacier Park tourists. Mrs. Jessie Donaldson Schultz wrote, "The Indian women come to work laughing always, always cheerful, because they were doing something they could do well. The thought kept coming to my mind, just give them a chance. They can do anything if they have a chance to use the skills they know!" I brought the idea of building a culture center in Browning and St. Mary many times to Chairman Old Person and showed him the statistics of over a million Glacier Park tourists passing through Browning but only stopping at Bob Scrivers Museum, and the Museum of the Plains Indian. Earl paid Bob Scriver $68,000 to do sculptures that should have been done by Blackfeet traditionals. Bob Scriver was a white supremacist who sold sacred bundles to a Canadian museum for over $2,000,000 and wrote racist letters about the "dirty Blackfeet" that are in the Montana Historical Society in Helena. Bob Scriver led the Indian Days Parade for many years at the request of Chief Old Person and was holding sacred bundle openings for his rich friends back east in his teepee and wearing his coonskin cap taught by Chief Old Person. Earl Old Person has sold many sacred bundles for big money he got from museums across the United States and the rest are stored at his ranch at Starr School. Surveys of Glacier Park tourists show they want to experience Blackfeet culture and purchase Blackfeet crafts. There is an opportunity to showcase Blackfeet culture with dance exhibitions if we build a culture center in Browning and St. Mary. There is room across the highway from the hotel/casino to build the culture center where 1,355,000 tourists drive by in July and August, and in St. Mary Village where 957,000 tourists enter the reservation in St. Mary Village. The Old Person era is over and a new era is possible if the traditional people in Starr School, Heart Butte, and Moccasin Flat in Browning band together to do what our ancestors accomplished in 1937, to build a Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative Culture Center. It is time! Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.    

BLACKFEET CRAFTS WORKERS SAVE THE BLACKFEET CHILDREN

In 1934 only 138 Blackfeet families were self-supporting and 747 families had to be assisted through relief and distribution of rations while a whooping cough epidemic and measles killed many children. Jessie Donaldson Schultz, wife of James Willard Schultz, who had remarried after his Blackfoot wife Natahki  passed away. Jessie Schultz was an employee of the Civil Works Administration as a social worker assigned to the Blackfeet Reservation. She reported, "My first visit was to a family of twelve at Starr School. Several of the children were ill and two of the babies had died. So I entered that home with beautiful parents, fine people who had just lost two children. That was the beginning of my welfare work on the Blackfeet Reservation. These people did not want to accept relief. They were so willing to work, to do something they could do to make an income. This was the beginning of our crafts program." The Blackfeet Indians formed a cooperative crafts association, and a board of directors who would examine the craft work to test it for authenticity, perfectly made according to the Blackfoot traditions. When their work was accepted , the women were paid by checks. The crafts were done with native materials-natural dyestuffs, quill work, leather work, bead work, sculpting in wood carving, dolls, and sweet grass sold to tourists at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning and a log building at St. Mary. They set up a little village of teepees with perfect replicas of old time lodges and charged tourists to go through the lodges and see how the Indians lived in the old way." The Blackfeet Indians involved in making a success of the Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Association are Mary Little Bull, Agnes Chief All Over, Judith Sanderville, Leona Sanderville, Maggie Shoo Cat, Julia Iron Pipe, Delores Calf Tail, Millie Hall, Maggie Marceau, Angeline Williamson, Rosie Grant, Nellie Buel, Angeline Wells, Mary Little Plume, Annie Potts, Annie Calf Looking, Maggie Found A Gun, Annie Flat Tail, Rosie Big Beaver, Cecile Tail Feathers,  Louise Berry Child, Nora Spanish, Suzie Red Horn, Albert Racine, Isabell McKay, Stanley Croft, Victor Pepion, Insimaki Yellow Kidney, Cecile Black Boy. I got statistics from Glacier Park tourists that showed 1.355,000 tourists drove past the tribal hotel and casino and did not stop, and 897,000 tourists drove over Logan Pass to enter the reservation at St. Mary Village and spent $85,000,000 in June, July and August. Our ancestors showed us the way to become self-supporting by selling crafts and entertaining tourists! Imagine if we banded together and built Blackfeet Culture Center in Browning and a Culture Center at St. Mary Village, we could end tribal poverty if we "own" the enterprise through the Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Cooperative originated by the above named Blackfeet traditional people. If not we will be corporate slaves of Sayeh or a white owned tourist enterprise dancing for minimum wages like the tribal council did a few years ago. It was a success until the greedy council got their hands in it. I can help to write grants and do the research but only the traditional Blackfeet can lead this effort. I live in Missoula so I have access to a loan program that will give us a loan to do a business plan to get a small business loan to build the culture center. Where is Ed Spotted Eagle? Call me and I will help. (406) 493-0894. Bob Juneau Sr.

HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION CAUSED BY TRIBAL POVERTY

I live in Missoula, a University town, where it seems everyone is happy and content, that is until the poverty statistics revealed the truth of a bad economy. Missoula has the highest suicide rate in Montana, and there are over 500 homeless school children in Missoula Public Schools, and the Missoula food bank is overwhelmed with poor white people who cannot feed their families. I left Browning because I could not get a job because I would not stop investigating the land frauds and tribal chairman Old Person banished me from tribal government employment. I soon became homeless in Browning and I had a young son to care for so I had to leave the reservation. The forced patent claims was our last chance to get our stolen land back with $300 million in compensation for the heirs of the original Blackfeet allottees robbed by white men in Glacier County. That is how the white man got on the reservation by robbing our relatives and we proved it. The water compact signed by chairman Old Person awards the stolen Blackfeet lands to white men and "extinguishes" all past, present, and future Blackfeet claims, FOREVER! The tribal council will receive $15 million per year for 10 years under the water compact from the state of Montana. The Salish-Kootenai tribes get $2.5 billion dollars, Kerr Dam, one half of Flathead Lake, and water for their ranchers and farmers, FOREVER! The Salish-Kootenai tribes had water attorneys, hydrologists, biologists, and historians who proved the tribes owned the water and had been robbed by the state of Montana. The Montana legislators and tribal chairman were laughing on state t.v. at the "one man water department" of the Blackfeet Tribe and their old, broke down NARF attorney, who screamed at the Blackfeet landowners in the water compact meeting-"you don't own any water!" while the tribal council kicked me out of the meeting for bringing up the land frauds. There is no plan to develop Blackfeet cattle ranchers or to help trust landowners to improve their family lands in the water compact. Our children are suffering like the homeless white children in Missoula, but the white children do not own 1.3 million acres like the Blackfeet children do. Chairman Old Person had a $350,000 culture fund to spend on his concubines while our children had no money to spend at Indian Days or to build a tribal culture center where traditional people could enjoy tribal culture and our youth could play basketball in a gym owned by the Blackfeet Tribe. An old lady told Old Person, "you made bums out of all of us" and she would not go into his tribal office because he raped too many young girls on that conference table for a tribal check to pay their electric bill or buy food for their hungry children. The 1896 Agreement banished the white ranchers from the reservation and the tribal council brought them back under the lease and sub-lease policy that leaves out the Blackfeet ranchers to whom the reservation belongs. The Blackfeet cattle ranchers brought the tribe out of a tribal famine caused by white ranchers killing off the buffalo for their cattle herds to graze. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was adopted by the Blackfeet people to reserve tribal grazing lands for Blackfeet ranchers and to market steers to Chicago Stockyards from the herd of 25,000 Blackfeet cattle. today the tribal council allows white ranchers to graze on reserved grazing lands and it is the white ranchers who market 10,000 head of steers fattened on Blackfeet grazing lands. The reservation can graze 55,000 head of cattle and if the "citizenship of cattle" were Blackfeet owned we would be rich overnight by capturing the $67,000,000 profits that white men get each year they graze their "white cattle" on reservation lands, a treaty violation. Hunger and malnutrition will continue until we wise up and organize a Blackfeet cattle ranchers association and Blackfeet landowners association as authorized by the 1896 Agreement and 1934 Indian reorganization Act. I will be over to Browning in November to meet with landowners and ranchers to start the process of getting on our feet by our own efforts by cutting out the white ranchers and their Blackfeet middlemen from robbing our grass and profits that belong to the Blackfeet Indians. Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

GLACIER PARK TOURIST MARKETS PASS BY BLACKFEET TRADITIONAL PEOPLE

The Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Association was organized during the great depression in 1933 designed to produce traditional Blackfeet crafts to sell to Glacier Park tourists, and the Museum of the Plains Indian was built in Browning to provide a place for traditional Blackfeet to sell their crafts in the gift shop and another gift shop at St. Mary Village. 1.3 million tourists passed by the tribal casino last summer and 957,000 tourists came over Logan Pass to enter the reservation at St. Mary Village and spent $85,000,000 for hotel rooms, meals, gas, and souvenirs. A Glacier Park exit survey of tourists showed their only complaints were they did not get to experience Blackfeet culture in their visit. I would suggest the traditional Blackfeet to build a Blackfeet Culture Center At St. Mary Village to capture the millions of dollars tourists want to spend on witnessing Blackfeet culture and purchase genuine Blackfeet crafts. The market is huge! Let us say we got $10 per tourist to pay to watch a cultural show at the Blackfeet Culture Center and 1,000,000 tourists purchased tickets amounting to $10,000,000 for the traditional Blackfeet dancers and crafts people! As soon as Sayeh corporation hears of this they will try to take it away from the traditional people and pay the dancers minimum wage and pocket millions of dollars for tribal council crooks. The Blackfeet Bank loaned $600,000 to the white people in Browning who now dominate the Blackfeet crafts sales, and East Glacier and St. Mary dominate the Glacier Park tourism markets on the reservation. The water compact will bring $150,000,000 to the tribal council, but do you think they will help Blackfeet traditional people to capture their dreams of self-sufficiency without becoming white people? Federal laws protect the designs and artwork of traditional people and the tribal council and white people violate these laws.

Sayeh corporation will enslave traditional people and walk off with the millions of dollars when it is the traditional culture the tourists will pay to see. Joe McKay has been Indian dancing for years at the St. Mary visitors center for tourists, but did he invite traditional Blackfeet? Ed Spotted Eagle has promoted the culture center but the tribal council will not listen until we organize and demand a  share of the water compact money. Call me at (406) 493-0894 and I will help you, I have the research and information.

Bob Juneau Sr.

BLACKFEET LEASE POLICY LOSES $45,849,000 TO WHITE RANCHERS

The history of Blackfeet economic development shows the 1893 Blackfeet cattle industry is the only successful enterprise creating 500 tribal brands [citizenship of cattle] 25,000 cattle, improving cattle ranches with fencing, homes, barns, and selling beef to the agency, shipping steers to Chicago, watering hay meadows with ditches from reservation streams to produce hay for winter feed and cash for all needful things. In the 1896 Agreement/Article Five white ranchers were banished from the reservation and Blackfeet cattle ranchers were awarded a treaty right for "exclusive use and occupancy of reserved grazing lands" [citizenship of cattle] and the United States pledged the continued support of the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry. Blackfeet Chiefs called cattle the "new buffalo" meaning cattle ranching was the new staff of life of the Blackfeet people. For 80 years we have suffered a tribal council regime that is despotic, corrupt, stingy, arbitrary, that destroyed the successful cattle industry and began the corrupt leasing policy we have today. The Blackfeet Constitution "Preference Policy" is the clause elected tribal council members use to lease tribal lands to themselves and sub-lease to white ranchers leaving out Blackfeet ranchers. Blackfeet cattle ranchers do not have equality in leasing tribal grazing lands for their cattle operations, but must instead compete with third-party Blackfeet leasers who sub-lease to white ranchers and they profit from tribal and allotted lands instead of Blackfeet landowners and cattle ranchers. The current leasing system leaves Blackfeet landowners and Blackfeet ranchers out of the reservation economy. White ranchers are a security threat to the wellbeing of the Blackfeet people draining millions of dollars that ought to go to Blackfeet landowners and Blackfeet ranchers. The cost of leasing and sub-leasing to white ranchers is $12 million for the Blackfeet and $45 million for the white ranchers. The tribal council leasing policy and BIA leasing policy are threats to the well being of the Blackfeet people who live in third-world poverty on their own reservation. That is why we need Blackfeet landowners association and Blackfeet cattle ranchers association to elect our own people to the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council and to make the right decisions for our own good not the white man and tribal council. It is the only way to band together and fight back against the corrupt tribal council and BIA who are robbing us of our land and lease income-our only possession. I have all of the research we need to force a change in the lease  policy but who will help us? We need ranchers and landowners to band together to change the lease policy as per the 1896 Agreement banishing white cattle from the reservation on the orders of Chief White Calf. The tribal council and BIA have violated our treaty.
Bob Juneau Sr. Please call me to begin the process of organizing ourselves. (406) 493-0894

POLITICAL ECONOMY HISTORY OF BLACKFEET TRIBAL RESOURCES

POLITICAL ECONOMY HISTORY OF BLACKFEET TRIBAL RESOURCES

                                    By Bob Juneau Sr. September, 2016

BREAKING ECONOMIC APARTHEID ON THE BLACKFEET RESERVATION

Chief White Calf protested to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp in 1890 on trespass of Texas cattle kings on the reservation, “These stock barons are compelled to seek new pastures for their cattle and sheep, and they look with covetous eyes on our land-our only inheritance and our only possession. The past summer we had our reserve fenced, at which we labored faithfully with the hope that we would see the last of hordes of range cattle that continually annoy us, when our hopes were dashed to the ground by the government turning our country into a white man’s cow pasture.”

Inspector Chubbuck argued, “The livestock industry is the one best suited to the natural conditions and inclinations of the people, and if developed along intelligent lines can be made to yield comfortable support to all the people of the tribe to whom the reservation belongs. The reservation could carry 50,000 head of cattle annually, permitting the Indians to market 10,000 head a year. The creeks on the reservation would be capable of irrigating enough grass and hay land to feed 50,000 head if a combination of small ditches to water grass and hay land was developed for winter feed and summer grazing.”

  Chief White Calf protested the Indian Bureau ten cents an acre lease price for Blackfeet grazing lands rated as the best grazing lands in the west. Ten cent lease fees were set by former governor of Montana Dixon appointed to Assistant Secretary of Agriculture as a favor to Railroad baron James J. Hill who leased the entire St. Mary Valley for the Great Northern Railway subsidiary, the Park Saddle Horse Company for ten cents an acre and Blackfeet ranchers were removed to the eastern reservations lands.

NO PLANS FOR BLACKFEET  CATTLE RANCHING-OUR ONLY INDUSTRY

The tribal council set the price for reserved tribal grazing lands at $5 per acre to be leased by Blackfeet middlemen and sub-leased to white ranchers who gain a profit of $67,000,000 annually on tribal and allotted lands. The market value of  grazing lands is $270 per acre, but is lowered by the tribal council to $5 an acre for racketeering of white ranchers and Blackfeet sub-leasers. This underground reservation economy leaves out trust landowners and Blackfeet cattle ranchers and hands reserved tribal grazing lands to white men. Trust landowners and Blackfeet ranchers are victims in this century old land fraud scheme. White men collect $67,000,000 by grazing their cattle on leased tribal and allotted lands. Trust landowners are cheated by selling “fractionated lands” to the tribe that are attached to large tribal grazing units that take over their whole allotment.

For instance, my great-grandmother’s 80 acre homestead allotment is divided because the tribe purchased shares and now controls the whole allotment and attached it to a 6,000 acre tribal grazing unit leased to a Blackfeet “middleman” for $5 an acre and sub-leased to a white rancher for $60,000 while we landowners get $25 for our share. We have to ask the leaser if we can build a home on our own land.

The Cobell Case buy-back program is a land fraud used to consolidate allotted lands under the tribal council control by purchasing “fractionated shares” that allow the tribal council to control the whole family allotment. Blackfeet ranchers cannot build their cattle herds under this land fraud and corrupt BIA and tribal council leasing system. Trust landowners cannot get market value of trust land by BIA leasing systems and Blackfeet cattle ranchers cannot build their cattle herds in competition with rich white ranchers.   

WATER COMPACT SETTLEMENT=  $150,000,000  TO THE BLACKFEET TRIBE

Did Chairman Barnes tell tribal members about the $150,000,000 settlement? Blackfeet Reservation land leases and natural resources are “big business” and if they were private –sector businesses would be on the list of Forbes and Fortune magazines most valuable enterprises. The Blackfeet Reservation “gross reservation product” is about $850 million dollars annually but lease revenues paid to the Blackfeet Tribe amount to about $10 million and allotted land lease revenues amount to about $2 million. Trust landowners own 1.3 million acres of the reservation land base but revenues for tribal and allotted leases total $12 million compared to $67 million for white men. This corrupt system is the economic drain on the Blackfeet Indians and why we are the poorest on our own reservation and why white cattlemen profit $67 million by leasing Blackfeet grazing lands. It is a century old fraudulent corrupt system of leasing Blackfeet grazing lands.

NO BUSINESS PLANS EXIST TO FUND BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS

The reservation produces many kinds of business opportunities including tourism, outdoor recreation, oil & gas, cattle industry, crops, wildlife, wood harvesting, and water leasing. Wall Street Bankers and experts in water marketing placed a value on Blackfeet water resources @ $500 million in annual revenues, but the tribal council and BIA have no “business plans” to market quality Blackfeet products such as bottled water, food and beverage processing plants, beef products and grains to global markets.

A Hutterite Colony on the Blackfeet Reservation signed a contract last month with a grocery food chain for $38,000,000 to produce “free-range organic eggs” produced without locking laying hens in cages for their entire life cycle. Consumers want organic free-range agriculture products and pay high prices for such products. A Tribal member tried to develop a turkey farm on the reservation and was laughed at by the tribal council, who are clueless on the value of agriculture products.

CATTLE RANCHERS AND TRUST LANDOWNERS ASSOCIATION

It is of paramount importance for landowners and ranchers to organize and take control of negotiating tribal and allotted land leases and to acquire the financial resources through the $150 million water compact settlement to develop trust property and cattle ranchers to benefit themselves. There is no funding set aside in the Blackfeet water compact to re-start the self-reliant successful Blackfeet cattle industry or to purchase cattle for Blackfeet ranchers or to produce free-range, grass fed beef cattle or small livestock products desired by food corporations.

The choice is either to continue to lease our lands to white men or to build the Blackfeet livestock and farming industries to grab the $67,000,000 for ourselves. There is money to budget $50,000,000 for the cattle ranchers, $50,000,000 for trust landowners, and $50,000,000 for a per capita payment to tribal members who desperately need cash.

Glacier and Pondera County Profile of white ranchers and farmers on the reservation shows revenues produced by white ranchers and farmers from crops and livestock that include grains, vegetables, nursery greenhouse, sweet potatoes, Christmas trees, hay, poultry and eggs, cattle and calves, milk and dairy products, hogs and pigs, sheep, goats, horses, burros, donkeys, aquaculture, wheat, barley, field and grass seeds, layers, broilers, turkeys, and pullets to replace laying flocks that produce $61,000,000 in sales of crops and livestock plus another $7,000,000 paid to white ranchers & farmers in federal agriculture subsidy payments they collect leasing tribal and allotted lands. The Blackfeet Indians have a century old tradition of cattle ranching since 1893.

GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC MARKETS FOR BLACKFEET PRODUCTS

Chinese Government Purchasers brought to the reservation by Blackfeet council member and cattle rancher Hugh Monroe offered to purchase bottled water and beef products from the Blackfeet Indians. I was in full support of Mr. Monroe and I thought he was one of the most effective councilmen we ever had, but the council would not listen to him and his project was rejected. It would have made all of us rich! Las Vegas casino owners offered a deal to pipeline Blackfeet water to Las Vegas, a distance of 1,700 miles! Water marketing and cattle ranching will make us all rich forever, so long as the grass grows and the water flows as guaranteed in our 1855 treaty with the United States. 

BLACKFEET CHIEFS BANISH WHITEMEN FROM THE RESERVATION

The Agent reported in 1890, “The Blackfeet Indians are active, intelligent, progressive people. They are unusually polite and sociable people, and as far as manners and politeness go, have very little to learn from their white brothers. It is well known to this department, this is not an agricultural country, and it is but a waste of time to plant crops as frost will kill grains and vegetables from blizzards in July and August. This country is well adapted to stock raising and making hay. The Indians recognize this and are devoting their time and energy to making hay and raising stock.”

Usurpation means “unlawful encroachment or assumption of the use of property, power, or authority which belongs to another.” Who is unlawfully using Blackfeet tribal and allotted resources? Tribal council members and third-party Blackfeet leasers who sub-lease tribal and allotted lands to white men have turned the Blackfeet Reservation into a “white man’s cow pasture.” The Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal council are conducting a criminal scheme to devalue tribal and allotted lands and resources and pocket lease money that should go directly to the tribe and Blackfeet trust landowners. The goal of white men is to make the remaining Indians lands “unusable” for Blackfeet cattle ranchers and trust landowners. The Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a report in 1980 it would take a million dollars a year for fifty years to develop “dry” Blackfeet lands and build pipelines to water hay meadows to improve grazing lands or $50,000,000 total.

“CITIZENSHIP OF CATTLE” ISSUE IN BLACKFEET CATTLE IDENTITY

Our 1896 Agreement/Article Five outlaws white men’s cattle from the reservation and reserves the entire reservation grazing lands for the “exclusive use and occupancy of Blackfeet Indians and cattle where their herds may feed, undisturbed.” We need a set aside of $50,000,000 of water compact money budgeted for Blackfeet allotted land improvements to be administered by a “Blackfeet Landowners Trust Account” and a “Blackfeet Cattle Ranchers Trust Account” set aside in the Interior Department for Blackfeet cattle ranchers to purchase cattle and improve their ranch property, and set aside another $50,000,000 to be distributed to tribal members per capita to give them cash for some hope and subsistence.  

It is impossible for us to profit under the corrupt system of tribal council crooks in cahoots with BIA and white cattlemen. They are even stealing tribal hay that is supposed to feed to our buffalo herd, and selling it to white cattlemen. I pity our poor buffalo, they too will starve and be victims of tribal crooks along with trust landowners and tribal ranchers cheated by a council system of corruption. Federal prison is the only way to stop crooks. We need an “Inspector Incognito” to infiltrate the tribal council and BIA to catch the crooks who are stealing our land and hay. The rule of law is that only Blackfeet cattle allowed to graze on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, no white cattle brands allowed!

SALISH-KOOTNAI WATER COMPACT ENDS TRIBAL POVERTY

The Salish-Kootenai tribes negotiated a water compact- $2.5 billion, Kerr Dam, one-half of Flathead Lake, and an economic development plan to fund tribal members ranching and farming operations on irrigated lands, business loans, credit, and markets for tribal products and sales of power from Kerr Dam amounting to $25,000,000 per year forever! They had a 15 man water compact negotiating team of lawyers, hydrologists, biologists, and historians that proved they “owned” their tribal water resources. They got so much water they felt sorry for white landowners and “gave” them surplus waters.

Montana legislators laughed at Chairman Old Person’s “one-man tribal water department” that showed up in Helena to negotiate for the Blackfeet Tribe. Chairman Old Person kicked us out of the water compact meeting in Browning when we brought up our land claims and water rights. Chairman Barnes is clueless on value of tribal water.

THE SUCCESSFUL, SELF-RELIANT BLACKFEET CATTLE INDUSTRY OF 1893

            Blackfeet cattle ranchers are true tribal heroes because they saved the tribe from starvation caused by Texas cattle kings who destroyed tribal buffalo herds to make room for their vast cattle herds that reached the Judith Basin in 1863. It was the beginning of the physical genocide era that killed tribal populations from 7,800 in 1863 to just 1,811 Blackfeet left alive in 1890. Blackfeet Chiefs began “selling land for a living” in the 1887 land cession of 17,000,000 acres for $1.5 million to be paid in 10 annual installments of $150,000 in cattle, rations, equipment, supplies, and improvements that brought the tribe out of a starving condition by 1893. The Blackfeet cattle industry consisted of 500 tribal brands, 25,000 cattle, and cash for all needful things, and a general prosperity for all tribal members. How many cattle do Blackfeet ranchers own today?

BLACKFEET RANCH CHILDREN ARE AN ENDANGERED HUMAN SPECIES

            Studies show the loss of the role of children in systems of land use endangers their future when parents are forced off ranch lands and knowledge of cattle ranching operations is being lost. Professor Kenneth R. Young writes, “The primary social unit is the ranch household, which is often nearly self-sufficient in the production of basic foods. Complex networks of shared labor and barter organized around ranch households show the importance of children in these land-use systems and consistent with the historical need for large families in traditional families. Children are an important source of labor in subsistence agriculture and participate in almost all subsistence activities as soon as they are physically able. It is common to see 12 to 15 year olds working with adults in all activities except those that require the strength of an adult. Younger children often do errands or serve in auxiliary roles. The learning process is the critical link in maintaining knowledge and practices of the ranching operations that are only available through oral transmission or observation. Social interactions create social networks that lead to later marriages, friendships, and extended families formed through childhood experiences or critical information is lost forever.” Blackfeet ranch children may not become ranchers.     

BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS ASSOCIATION NEEDED FOR CHANGE

            To prosper Blackfeet landowners and cattle ranchers need cooperatives to advance and protect their interests. A non-profit cooperative is required by the Indian Reorganization Act to “cut out the white man” from tribal and allotted land leases and profits and to secure those profits for the Blackfeet Indians. Blackfeet Chiefs adopted the constitution and charter to organize tribal credit to develop tribal cooperatives for cattle ranchers, and Indian crafts sales to tourists and for retail businesses for tribal members. 

             

             

   

BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS LEFT OUT OF WATER COMPACT

The 1896 Agreement/ Article Five reserves reservation grazing tracts for the "exclusive use and occupancy" of Blackfeet cattle ranchers, "where their herds may feed, undisturbed." The goal of the Blackfeet Chiefs was to get rid of white cattlemen who came on the reservation by trespassing or by leasing tribal and allotted lands for ten cents an acre leaving the Indians broke and out of the cattle business. Chief White Calf told the Congress, "We wish you would give us a lock to keep out the whites who are always bothering us and driving their herds onto the reservation and ruining our hay lands." Curly Bear told the Congress, "The whites are envious and desire our grazing lands and will be the ruin of our successful cattle industry. Did you tell the agent he could graze his cows on our lands? He does not have any Indian blood in his veins! If he is allowed to graze his cows the other white men will claim the same rights and we will be overrun." It was clear the Blackfeet Chiefs did not want any white cattle on the reservation to compete with Blackfeet owned cattle for the precious grass and water for building a cattle industry, so they wrote the Article Five into the 1896 Agreement to keep the white man out of the Blackfeet Reservation. In 1934 the Blackfeet Chiefs were talked into accepting the Indian Reorganization Act which provided for the Blackfeet Constitution and Charter and it also provided for the tribal credit program to support ranchers with loans and cattle feed for their cattle herds and for subsistence until the ranchers were profitable. It worked! The Plan of Operations for the Blackfeet Credit Program and the Blackfeet ranchers is an excellent business plan and it should be followed by the BIA and tribal council to re-start the successful, self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry. The 1896 Agreement and the Indian Reorganization Act are our guiding rules of law so far as the Blackfeet Tribe and United States Congress are concerned, but like so many good ideas, it has been the domain of tribal crooks and BIA operatives that steal hay, lease fees, and grazing tracts meant for Blackfeet ranchers. The "Inspector Incognito" sent to the reservation by Congress found white cattlemen trespassing and an "in-house Indian-ring" of tribal council ranchers hogging tribal grazing lands in conspiracy with white cattle companies to steal the grass and water holes of allotted landowners and collecting lease fees for tribal and allotted grazing lands. It is the same system in place that allowed Chairman Old Person and Vice-Chairman Archie St. Goddard to steal tribal leases and fees for their use of 35,000 acres of tribal grazing tracts. The tribal buffalo herd will be history soon if pilfering of tribal hay and feed is not stopped and the buffalo starve in winter.
TOO MANY CHIEFS AND NOT ENOUGH INDIANS: The people have suffered for 75 years under the tribal council, put in by the BIA to control the Indians, by allowing a few council members to rob the tribe and keep the people poor so BIA can keep their jobs and the Indians poor, forever, by the water compact. This is our last chance to get on our feet financially by using the $150,000,000 to be paid to the tribal council in the water compact. The trust landowners and cattle ranchers are not even mentioned in the water compact except as it ends all tribal and allotted land claims forever! Why is that? It is because Chairman Old Person was trying to sneak the money by the people to keep his personal $350,000 culture fund that paid for his concubines and whores in Washington D.C.
$150,000,000 TO BE PAID OUT IN THE WATER COMPACT:
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Report in 1980 said $50,000,000 is needed to pipeline water to dry trust land allotments so Indian landowners and ranchers can have water for stock, hay production and domestic uses, and another $50,000,000 is needed to make the Blackfeet cattle ranchers "whole" for their losses from BIA mismanagement of the reservation cattle industry and for destroying the self-reliant, successful Blackfeet cattle industry. The funds would be used to purchase cattle for Blackfeet ranchers, improve their property, and to secure markets for beef products. A tribal trust landowners and cattle ranchers cooperative will be formed to take over the water compact funding to be held in a tribal trust account under BIA supervision. The water compact funds will be managed by the  Blackfeet landowners association and cattlemen's cooperative to "cut out the white men" from the reservation cattle industry as outlined in the Indian Reorganization Act Regulations and the 1896 Agreement/Article Five. The coop could build a beef processing plant to create jobs for tribal members and meat for the people! Chinese Government Purchasers were on the reservation requesting Blackfeet beef products to be shipped to China. They said a steak costs $100 in China.
I read the article on younger Blackfeet ranchers like Cowboy After Buffalo and others who want to ranch but find the doors closed to them despite Blackfeet ownership of 1.3 million acres of the best grazing lands in the nation. If the ranchers want to organize and take advantage of their special treaty rights and the Indian Reorganization Act, I will help them to research and file requests to Congress to make them "whole" for their losses in cattle ranching and to recognize special treaty rights to use tribal grazing tracts for their own cattle and to build their own cattle ranch. That is the law and treaty!
MY BUDGET FOR THE $150,000,000 WATER COMPACT MONEY:
$50,000,000 TO THE BLACKFEET CATTLE RANCHERS FOR CATTLE PURCHASE ETC.
$50,000,000 TO BLACKFEET TRUST LANDOWNERS FOR PROPERTY IMPROVMENTS
$50,000,000 TO BE PAID TO TRIBAL MEMBERS PER CAPITA PAYMENTS
TRIBAL COUNCIL TO BE PAID-$00,000,000 TO DO THEIR JOBS IN SERVING THE PEOPLE
Bob Juneau Sr.  phone me @ 406-493-0894.