THE FAULT OF TRIBAL POVERTY LIES WITH TRIBAL COUNCIL AND WHITE MEN

In 1934 the Blackfeet Chiefs met with Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier at the Indian Congress to discuss adopting a tribal constitution and charter. The commissioner stressed the bill in Congress, Wheeler-Howard Act intent was "To cut out the middleman's profits" meaning the white ranchers leasing tribal and allotted lands through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribal constitution and charter mandate was to establish a Blackfeet cattle ranchers association and an arts & crafts association for traditional Blackfeet to sell to tourists in Glacier Park. The first Blackfeet Tribal Business Council was elected in 1936 with 13 members and ten of the council members had incomes over $100,000 while chairman Wright Hagerty had an income over $500,000 in his first term of office by leasing tribal oil rights to Louis Hill owner of the Great Northern Railway. That is $1.5 million to tribal council members under the "Preference Clause" of the Blackfeet Constitution in 1936 and it has gotten worse until today we have a communist style tribal council that has made us poor and oppressed. Did Joe McKay advocate extinguishing the preference clause for elected tribal council members in his constitutional reform, or offer to return the McKay 100 year lease of the west end of Browning that still has 60 years to run or council members advocate ending sub-leases to white men of tribal grazing and farm lands as outlawed in the Wheeler-Howard Act? What will these politicians do with $470 million of water compact money? There is nothing in the water compact for traditional Blackfeet or cattle ranchers or to fund the credit program to loan money to individual business owners. All you see in their leaflet is tribal council initiatives and nothing for allotted landowners or traditional business enterprises. It is a plan to reduce us all to tribal serfs as we are today. The tribal charters were supposed to be organized for tribal communities and districts for self-government, and establish credit unions for tribal districts. The tribal council members feared Blackfeet cattle ranchers association and arts & crafts association would put tribal political families out of business exploiting tribal money. Instead of developing individual cattle ranching operations Wright Hagerty developed a million dollar ranch for himself and eight tribal council members owned all the cattle in partners with white ranchers. Today, we have a communistic style tribal council that owns all tribal enterprises and reduces tribal members to minimum wage slaves of Sayeh Corporation. The implied threat in the leaflet mailed to tribal members is that the tribe will lose $470 million if the water compact is rejected by tribal voters in April, 2017. The Blackfeet claim losses are $1.6 billion dollars for stolen allotted lands and a billion dollar loss of tribal oil rights due to tribal council embezzlements with oil companies. The water compact extinguishes all past, present, and future Blackfeet claims, forever! How do they know there will not be embezzlements in the future? We have had nothing but stolen tribal property by white men in complicity with the tribal council for 81 years now. We are giving up our treaty rights and trust property to a water board made of state, federal, and tribal council representatives.  Where is the Blackfeet cattle ranchers and traditional crafts associations representatives? I do not want the tribal council to have authority over my allotted lands or water rights! The Secretary of the Interior is vested by Congress to carry out our treaty rights and water rights, and if we go to state court the Attorney General and Senate Indian Affairs Committee will fulfill our treaty rights. That is the law! Any unlawful decision made in state court will be appealed to federal court where treaty rights are superior to state laws. That is our Treaty rights! Vote no on the tribal water compact, please! trust landowners know the fault of tribal poverty lies in the council.
Bob Juneau Sr. let us meet and discuss our allotted landowners issues before we vote on the compact.

"NEGRO" TROOPS EMANCIPATED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN DECIDED THE CIVIL WAR

Americans are not taught the true history of the United States for political reasons which conflict with reality. Historian George Bancroft wrote in June, 1865 immediately after President Lincoln was murdered by confederates, " The measure by which Abraham Lincoln takes his place, not in American history only, but in universal history, is his Proclamation of January 1, 1863, emancipating all slaves within the insurgent states. It was indeed a military necessity, and it decided the result of the war. It took from the public enemy one or two million bondmen and placed between one and two hundred thousand brave and gallant troops in arms on the side of the Union. A great deal has been said in time past of the wonderful results of the toil of the enslaved Negro in the creation of wealth by the culture of cotton; and now it is in part to the aid of the Negro in freedom that the country owes its success in its movement of regeneration-that the world of mankind owes the continuance of the United States as the example of a Republic. The death of President Lincoln sets the seal to that Proclamation, which must be maintained. It is the only rod that can safely carry off the thunderbolt. He came to it perhaps reluctantly; he was brought to adopt it, as it were, against his will, but compelled by inevitable necessity. He disclaimed all praise for the act, saying reverently, after it had succeeded, "The nation's condition God alone can claim." And what a futurity it opened before the country when its institutions became homogenous! From all civilized world the nations will send hosts to share the wealth and glory of this people. It will receive all good ideas from abroad; and its great principles of personal equality and freedom: freedom of conscience and mind, freedom of speech and action, freedom of government through ever renewed common consent, will undulate through the world like rays of light and heat from the sun. With one wing touching the waters of the Atlantic and the other the Pacific, it will grow into a greatness of which the past has no parallel and there can be no spot in Europe or in Asia so remote or so secluded as to shut out its influence. He was one of the mass of the people; he represented them, because he was one of them; and the mass of the people, the class that lives and thrives by self-imposed labor, felt that the work, which was to be done was a work of their own: The assertion of equality against the pride of oligarchy, of free labor against the lordship over slaves, of the great industrial people against all the expiring aristocracies of which any remnants had tided down from the Middle Ages. As he went along through his difficult journey, sounding his way, he held fast by the hand of the people, he committed faults, but the people were resolutely generous, magnanimous, and forgiving; and he in his turn was willing to take instructions from their wisdom." In my opinion, the American voters have been duped by what President Lincoln called "Money Power" and he feared that corporations would use their money power to use the government to inflame race hatred and divide the country. We have our first corporate presidency and corporate rule over the people in a modern day attempt to economically enslave all Americans. It will be a tough term of office for the poor and minority but we have overcome enslavement of African Americans and Indian massacres and now, because of the Republican Doctrine of corporate rule, the American people are fast becoming the laughingstock of the world under rule of oligarchs. I miss President Obama, he was the champion of the people, and he withstood the institutional racism of Republican controlled Congress for our sakes. No people or government are immune from the rule of oligarchs, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation we have been exploited by corporations and racist border-whites. The federal and state government is complicit in the massive Indian land claims on Indian reservations across the United States for the economic benefit of corporations. The visions of spiritual leaders call the current situation a contest between good and evil. Which side wins this war?Bob Juneau Sr.    

DO THE BLACKFEET VOTERS "TRUST" THE TRIBAL COUNCIL WITH $420,000,000

Promises made are promises broken by tribal politicians. Even the corrupt Bureau of Indian Affairs had reservations about the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council "evasion" of corporate responsibilities under the tribal constitution. In 1950 the Secretary of the Interior and Solicitor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Area Office, and Agency Superintendent met to discuss two specific questions: (1) what action can be taken by federal officials or by members of the Blackfeet Tribe to require conformity with the provisions of the Tribal Constitution and Charter? (2) what responsibility rests on the Secretary of the Interior and his representatives [BIA] to protect tribal and individual trust property against the actions of irresponsible [corrupt] tribal council members? In the first question tribal members would need convincing evidence that tribal council members had acted wrongfully, or beyond their authority in violation of specific constitution or charter provisions. Of course, tribal members have no idea of what the tribal council is doing with tribal money except for the Forensic Audit which revealed corruption throughout tribal government, and it was tossed in the trash can by the guilty tribal council members. In the second question the Solicitor ruled the trust responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior has not been diminished by adoption of the tribal constitution and charter. The Secretary of the Interior can require that all revenue from tribal sources be deposited to the credit of the Blackfeet Tribe in the United States Treasury, and thereby bring under control of Congress and the Secretary of the Interior the use of tribal funds. If we vote to accept the water compact settlement the supervisory powers of the trust responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior and Congress will be terminated. Until these supervisory powers are terminated, they remain in the Secretary and must be exercised by his office and Congressional Oversight. Blackfeet allottee trust lands water rights will be transferred to a Water Board made of tribal, federal and state officials under the water compact which means the tribal council controls all of tribal and allotted water rights, and all allotted land claims are extinguished, "forever." Do any of us have the money to pay a water attorney to defend our allotted lands against the claims of white men or the tribal council taking our water rights? The BIA report on tribal council management of tribal land and resources: "The record is discouraging at many points and unless corrective actions are taken at once the assets of the Blackfeet Tribe may be seriously depleted. Successive tribal councils have been progressively irresponsible as tribal council members have grown familiar with the technical provisions of the constitution and charter and have learned how to evade the duties imposed upon them as tribal officials." The agency, area office, central office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Secretary of the Interior failed to obtain corrective action in the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to act in accordance with the Blackfeet Constitution and Charter. The water compact settlement gives the tribal council authority to administer our allotted water rights and tribal water rights and manage all of the $420,000,000 at the tribal office!! The Cobell Case caused a reorganization of trust management of tribal and individual trust money under the United States Treasury Department. I would suggest that we vote no on the water compact until such time as our allotted land claims are resolved and our stolen lands are returned to us with $300,000,000 in just compensation, and that our $420,000,000 is secured in the Treasury Department so that tribal council thieves can be charged in federal court for theft of tribal and individual property and money. Section 9 of the tribal charter provides that "The officers of the tribal council shall maintain accurate and complete public accounts of the financial affairs of the Tribe, and shall furnish an annual balance sheet and report of financial affairs of the Tribe to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The tribal treasurer shall keep accounts of all receipts and disbursements  and shall make written reports to the Tribal Council at every regular and special meetings." The Bureau of Indian Affairs recommended "If necessary the United States Attorney should be called for assistance." The political organization of the tribe prevents any meaningful prosecution of tribal council criminals in tribal court and what tribal judge will lock up the "President of the Blackfeet Tribe" since we will only be tribal "citizens" instead of tribal members with special treaty rights to complain to Congress? I can see the robbery of $420,000,000 by the tribal council and we will be poor, "forever." The water compact helps only tribal political families and white men. It is our decision whether to accept another century of abuse by the tribal council and white men. My recommendation is to hold tribal meetings to discuss this water compact and to put our money in the Treasury of the United States to control the spending of the tribal council; whereas we would vote on every tribal council expenditure of our water compact money in public not in the secret meetings of the tribal council. We are Blackfeet Treaty Indians and our tribal culture is to make decisions by the whole tribe, that is tribal democracy far superior to the abuse of American "citizens" by the rich one percent Americans. Let us meet and eat together like Blackfeet Indians. Bob Juneau Sr. a Blackfeet patriot

"SLOW-DEATH MEASURES" GENOCIDE OF INDIANS CONTINUES IN 2017

The sovereign Blackfeet Indian Reservation is occupied for over a century by "border-whites" in a white-apartheid territory created by the Montana Legislature in 1919 called a "reservation/county" for which there is no warrant under the constitution. Glacier and Pondera counties land base lies on stolen Blackfeet land allotments held under a treaty with the United States dating to 1855, and in the treaty the Congress and President promise to protect the Blackfeet Indians from "depredations committed by white men living in or crossing their territory, may commit." Instead of protecting the Indians, the United States is complicit in land frauds by issuing forged land titles of individual Indian allotments which Indian lands were stolen by border-whites in state courts. On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation border-whites generate $142 million in revenues annually from sales of livestock and crops on the void patent-in-fee lands robbed from the Blackfeet landowners. As a result of the century-old land frauds the Indians live in squalid third-world conditions in tribal housing slums. The remainder of Blackfeet allottees own one-million acres and live in poverty because the border-whites and federal trustee Secretary of the Interior mismanage the allotted lands to make them "unusable" for the Indian landowners. These are valuable grazing and farm lands that form the treaty lands that are supposed to be the "exclusive use and occupancy of Blackfeet Indians" according to the 1896 Agreement with the United States. These are the "facts" of white-apartheid territory in the United States of America. In fact, there are 17,000 unresolved individual Indian land claims on Indian reservations across the United States to 100 million acres of stolen Indian lands converted to "reservation/county" void patent-in-fee jurisdiction by the United States Government. This is the "Indian Problem" deemed unsolvable for over a century because the United States Government cannot bring itself to resolve the Indian land claims because it would mean removal of white men from Indian reservations. But, the whites would not suffer the century of torture inflicted upon the Indians because Congress has a fund to pay market value to the void patent-in-fee border-whites prior to removal to state reservations. Slow-Death Measures genocide is defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention as depriving a targeted group of the rights and privileges available to other inhabitants of the territory concerned, and looting of property that belongs to another, thus inflicting slow-death in poverty and diseases. The Blackfeet Indians live in third-world conditions in tribal housing slums and suffer hunger and deprivation, diabetes is epidemic among the children because they do not get three meals a day and will suffer heart disease and require kidney transplant by age of 20 according to Indian Health Service doctors. Border-whites have robbed over a billion dollars worth of tribal oil and gas reserves by leases approved by the Secretary of the Interior and lease Blackfeet grazing and farm lands for $5 per acre for the best grazing lands and irrigated farm lands in Montana. The Blackfeet cattle ranchers were self-reliant by 1893 with 500 ranchers, 25,000 cattle, shipping steers to Chicago stockyards, and had cash for all needful things, built ranch homes, barns, chicken coops, and gardens. By 1904 the Indians were broke and the border-whites leased Blackfeet grazing lands for ten cents an acre set by the Interior Department for white ranchers. Today, the Indians are forced into a water compact with the state of Montana that will leave the border-whites with our productive lands they stole, forever, and we, the Blackfeet people, will then be poor forever! None of the Blackfeet landowners got to testify or to participate in the water compact hearings or to present their own claims which will be extinguished forever in the water compact. How did the border-whites get on the sovereign Blackfeet Reservation? Government investigators reported in 1928 that Blackfeet Agency superintendent McFatridge was guilty of accepting bribes on grazing leases, stealing wire and supplies of the Indians, embezzlement, collusion with border-whites to sell tribal land and oil rights, illegal attachment of Indian cattle for debts and liens of white men filed in state courts, Indian estates liquidated without probate or record, illegal real estate arrangements on Blackfeet land allotments, receiving private and under-the-table cash payments, paying illegal debts and liens filed by border-whites on Indian money, foreclosing on hundreds of fee patents issued to illiterate Indian Wards of the United States Government, sold Indian oil rights to oil corporations, an estimated worth of one billion dollars, forced many private oil leases whereby Indians would pay all costs of production and in the end would get nothing for their oil rights, and found guilty of "sanction of corporate privileges by bribery" by United States Senate investigators in his dealings with the Great Northern Railway, Swift & Co., Conrad Investment Company, Texaco, Standard Oil, and state and county government officials. In the winter and spring of 1913 the Joint Commission of Congress To Investigate Indian Affairs led by chairman Harry Lane of Oregon found the agent and border-whites had starved to death over one hundred Blackfeet landowners to force their consent to sell 156,000 acres of irrigated farm lands and newly discovered oil fields. The Blackfeet Indians told senator Lane they were being starved in order to force their consent for a tribal land cession for Indians lands coveted by the border-whites. Once again in 1921 senator Lane found Blackfeet "Doughboys" veterans of World War One "dying by the roadside" along with their aged parents to force them to sign fee patents on their individual lands for sale to corporations and border-whites in complicity with the Secretary of the Interior. Senator Lane reported that over 100 Indians died because they refused to sign the fee patents on their land. In 1944 tribal council chairman John Sharp wrote the Congress that the Indian Bureau and border-whites, including Louis Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway had gone to Washington D.C. and got the tribal oil formations patented-in-fee so that he could foreclose on the patents in state courts and take the Indians oil rights. He reported that Louis Hill and county officials had targeted Blackfeet World War Two veterans for the land frauds since they were in Europe and Asia fighting the Nazi's. That is how white men like James J. Hill and his son Louis Hill got on the sovereign Blackfeet Indian Reservation, by inflicting slow death upon the Indians to force the Indians to sign the fee patents, but they were unsuccessful in their murders and tortures. The agent would toss the Indians in the unheated agency jail and let them die of exposure by freezing to death in the forty degree below zero weather. Now, the Montana border-whites and United States Congress are threatening to take the rest of our water rights if we do not sign the water compact settlement which extinguishes our land claims, forever! I will not sign the water compact and I am advocating my fellow Blackfeet people to vote no on the water compact because we have not received justice or just compensation and our stolen land returned to us. It is a human rights issue, not only at Blackfeet, but all over the Indian nations in America.
I am a Blackfeet patriot, who is a Vietnam veteran contaminated with Agent Orange sprayed on American troops in the Vietnam War and my sons are also suffering from Agent Orange illness denied by the United States Government. My son served in the Gulf War and he is suffering Gulf War Syndrome also denied by the government and my father was a veteran of World War Two in Patton's Tank Corp with eight medals, one awarded for disabling a German tank and saving his fellow troops. He died at age of 47 of his war experiences. I think we Indians deserve justice too.
Bob Juneau Sr.

BLACKFEET TRIBE OWNS ALL MINERALS ON THE BLACKFEET RESERVATION

In United States of America, Plaintiff, v. C.E. Frisbee, [Glacier County Attorney] J.L. Sherburne, [Agency Trader] Texas Co. [Texaco] et al, Defendants. Judge Pray In The District Court of the United States In and For the District of Montana; Decision No. 313: The question before the court at this time in the above entitled cause is on the motion by plaintiff for a summary judgment. This suit was brought by the plaintiff to quiet title to the lands described in the complaint, wherein through inadvertence and mistake on February 15th, 1930 a fee simple patent, numbered 1034812, to said lands was issued to Amy Sherman, who was also known as Amy Rides At The Door and Amy Running Fisher, wherein the alleged requirement of reservation of all of the mineral rights, including coal, oil & gas to the United States of America, for the benefit of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians, was omitted, without authority of law, from the provisions of the said patent, all of which is alleged to be contrary to the terms of the Act of June 30th, 1919; the pertinent provisions of which are as follows: That any and all minerals including coal, oil and gas are hereby reserved for the benefit of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians until Congress shall otherwise direct, and patents hereafter issued shall contain a reservation accordingly. The patent in question was issued after the enactment of the above statute and without the reservation therein required. From a perusal of the complaint and answer it does not appear that any material question of fact remains to be considered and that only questions of law are now involved. The court has examined the briefs of counsel for the respective parties and many of the numerous statutes and authorities cited. It is the estimation of counsel for plaintiffs that the reservation [of minerals] should have been incorporated in the patent, and since the officers responsible failed in their duty to include the reservation in question in the patent at the time of the issuance, the law itself becomes a part of the patent, and the reservations must be regarded the same as if incorporated therein. Defendants contend that the terms and provisions respecting reservation of minerals do not apply to general allotments of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians, but that the reservation applies only to the 80 acre homestead allotments. Defendants therefore allege in their cross-complaint that reservations of minerals contained in restricted fee patents numbered 866535 and 1018647 were erroneously included therein and without authority of law, wherefore defendants claim that the fee simple patent issued to Amy Sherman, No. 1034812 is good and valid and so also is their title to the coal, oil and gas underlying the lands described herein. The only question presented here is whether the fee simple patent to Amy Sherman, to the lands in question, was lawfully issued under the general allotment act of 1887, without restrictions contained in the Act of June 30th, 1919. It also appears from paragraph 12 of the complaint that on November 14, 1922 another patent, No. 887819, was issued to Annie Rides At The Door, under the Act of June 30, 1919, containing the reservation aforesaid, although this particular piece of land is not involved in this suit. The court is of the opinion that the act of June 30, 1919, became a part of the general allotment act of 1887 and that ALL FEE SIMPLE PATENTS SUBSEQUENTLY ISSUED WERE REQUIRED TO CONTAIN A RESERVATION OF "ANY AND ALL MINERALS, INCLUDING COAL, OIL AND GAS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BLACKFEET TRIBE OF INDIANS-AND THEN FOLLOWS THE CONCLUDING SENTENCE WHICH MAKES THE REQUIREMENT DOUBLY MANDATORY; "AND PATENTS HEREAFTER ISSUED SHALL CONTAIN A RESERVATION ACCORDINGLY." Judge Pray lectured the officers of the government [Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs] "The issuing of the patent without the reservations did not convey what the law reserved, and all persons are chargeable with notice thereof. From the authorities cited it appears that the act of the executive officers issuing the patent without including the reservations aforesaid could not affect such reservations and the purchasers were chargeable with knowledge of the limitations imposed upon the title by Act of Congress; and it was further held that the law becomes a part of the patent that no federal official can waive or render inoperative because of failure to incorporate the limitation or reservation in the patent. There seems to be nothing ambiguous or uncertain about the provisions of the statute in question, nor doubt as to their applicability to the patent to the lands described in complaint. The motion of plaintiff for a summary judgment should be granted and such is the order of the court. Judge Pray. In another jurisdictional issue of state lands on the reservation granted for school purposes, the state of Montana is claiming mineral rights on the Blackfeet Reservation. In 1931 Forrest Stone, Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, stated to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, "In looking over the record here, I cannot find anywhere where any part of this reservation is designated as state school land. The only lands set aside for school purposes is the Blackfeet Boarding School. It would be appreciated if the Indian Office could furnish me with some kind of schedule showing what lands are set aside on the Blackfeet Reservation as State School Lands." In addition to no state school lands there are no townships on the reservation incorporated under state jurisdiction, the townships of Browning and Babb are designated as tribal townships because the Blackfeet Chiefs protested any state law or jurisdiction on the reservation, and the Blackfeet Agency township is a federal reservation for the purpose of fulfilling treaty obligations. There is no jurisdiction on the reservation except Blackfeet Tribal Jurisdiction with federal laws that enforce the Blackfeet Treaty, all others are nothing but squatters. But, the ignorant tribal council is so greedy to get their hands on the water compact money they have sold us to white men and things will get worse after the compact because void patent in fee titles of white men in Glacier and Pondera counties will be legitimized if we vote to approve the water compact already approved by the council. WHAT HAPPENED TO REQUEST FOR A SENATE INVESTIGATION OF LAND FRAUDS?Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Resolution no. 224-2001 passed unanimously by the tribal council on August 9, 2001 states in part: Whereas, The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has completed a study on Blackfeet allotted lands, minerals, forced patents, and state and county government illegal incorporation on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; and, Whereas, The Blackfeet forced patents are a result of a criminal conspiracy of Indian Bureau employees and local whites documented by a United States Senate investigation in 1929; and Whereas, The creation of Glacier and Pondera counties on the Blackfeet Reservation by the Montana Legislature in 1919 violates disclaimers contained in the 1889 and 1972 state constitutions; violating the Blackfeet treaty with the United States; and Whereas, The Blackfeet Allottees and Blackfeet Nation have suffered epic poverty and diminished tribal sovereignty as a result of these actions; now, Therefore Be It Resolved: That repatriation of allotted lands and minerals be made to affected allottees and reparations be paid affected allottees; and tribal sovereignty be re-established upon the Blackfeet Nation and that all tax monies collected by the state of Montana, Glacier and Pondera counties be refunded to the Blackfeet Tribe, and further that the Senate Indian Affairs Committee investigate the Blackfeet Tribe and Blackfeet allottee complaints. Signed: Earl Old Person, Chairman and Leo Kennerly Jr. Secretary.
[historical note by Bob Juneau]: when we got this resolution passed in 2001 with the help of Jim St. Goddard, who lobbied for us, chairman Old Person was traveling around the country with his niece, and was very angry that Ed Spotted Eagle and I, had outflanked him and got the request for a senate investigation passed, but he told us he was going to get it rescinded, and he told the lawyer for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that the Blackfeet allottees and heirs did not want to pursue their land and oil claims. That is the treason Old Person has done to the Blackfeet people, he sided with the BIA and white men in the water compact. He is the tribal demon. Vote no on the compact until we get our stolen land and oil returned with $1. 6 billion dollars in just compensation from the Congress.

WATER COMPACT BRINGS MORE POVERTY, DESPAIR, DISEASE AND HOPELESSNESS

United Nations declaration that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, and that these principles are basic to happiness, harmonious relations and security of all people. Indians in Montana die at 50 years on average while white citizens live to 70 years on average, while the most recent statistics show Indian children commit suicide at higher rates than white children, and Indians live in a state of poverty in tribal housing slums with high unemployment rates above 50% on average. Blackfeet children suffer a juvenile diabetes epidemic caused by a lack of proper diet. Indian Health Service doctors told me our children do not get three good meals per day, they have rotten teeth because dentists do not fix teeth and pull teeth of children so they have already lost their permanent teeth as teens and it leads to heart disease and lung cancer later in life, and that they will need kidney transplants by age of 20 years. The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has expenditures in the hundreds of millions of dollars each year from federal poverty grants, which federal funds have become the tribal welfare economy that supports tribal government but does not reach the tribal poor due to council pilfering of the poor funds. A forensic audit of tribal council spending found corruption in every tribal program. Council members and their families were taking thousands of dollars per week in 'salary advances' that were never paid back while the chief had a $350,000 culture fund to pay his blackmailers who caught his incest and rapes of Indian women at the tribal office. One council member had 35,000 acres of tribal lands sub-leased to white men. The white men in Glacier and pondera counties are living on stolen Blackfeet land allotments got by forged land titles issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and who profit $142,000,000 per year in sales of cows and crops on the stolen allotted lands of original Blackfeet allottees robbed in 1918-1922. Blackfeet claims include a billion dollars of oil revenues stolen by the Great Northern Railway owners, father & son robber barons James J. Hill and Louis Hill who was still robbing Blackfeet World War Two veterans while they were fighting the Nazi's and Japan. Nationwide there are 17,000 forced fee patents claims to 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands on Indian reservations across the United States, a vast system of white-apartheid still in existence in white territory called "reservation/counties" transplanted on Indian reservations by void patent-in-fee titles for which there is no warrant in the Constitution of the United States. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is a rogue federal agency used by corporations to exploit Indian land and resources by leases approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. In 1979 Forrest Gerard, the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs testified under oath to the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs that, "The United States Government would have to sue itself on behalf of its Indian wards." The United States Government was complicit; it had robbed allotted Indian lands and resources, calling it a "public spectacle." I call it a world class crime against the humanity of the Indian people deserving of sanctions by the World Court against the states of Montana and the Dakotas. Therefore, since the conspiracy of the century was exposed in 1979, the western states got a bill in Congress to force Indian landowners to accept state jurisdiction and water compact settlements for which the Indian landowners had no representation or legal assistance in defending treaty rights over states rights. The preamble to the Blackfeet water compact settlement "extinguishes" all past, present and future Blackfeet land and water claims, "forever."! The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council approved this water compact in 2009 in secret council meetings with state, federal and Congressional representatives. It seems they all had a vested interest in burying the century old forced fee patent claims since tribal council members, the Secretary of the Interior, and state of Montana are all defendants in the conspiracy. Our ancestors treaty is the only reason that we exist today as a treaty people and the only reason we still have our own reservation, and if we do not fight for our treaty rights today, then our future generations will not exist as treaty Indians. If, on the other hand, it is the secret goal of white-oriented Blackfeet politicians to turn the Blackfeet people into white citizens, the water compact is the perfect instrument to kill off all of our century old claims and then the white-oriented tribal politicians appear on the other side of the water compact $420,000,000 richer and whiter as President Joe McKay and his white tribal politicians with a new tribal constitution! The water compact states quite clearly that all past, present and future Blackfeet allotted land claims are "extinguished, forever," That was the decision of Chairman Earl Old Peron and Vice-Chairman Sassy Running Crane and the tribal council to end our treaty rights to all of the reservation for the exclusive use and occupancy of the Blackfeet Indians. Chief White Calf told the United States Government to remove the white men from the reservation; "they have no Indian blood in their veins." If we had a treaty right to all of our reservation in the 1896 Agreement, then we still have a treaty right to all of our land in 2017! We are still wards of the United States Government and if we go to federal or state court to defend our water rights and forced patents claims, it is the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States who must defend us. The tribal council dim-shits were unemployed bummers before they got on the council and they will go back to the commodity house when they are all defeated in the next tribal council election. Chairman Barnes is a new-age Indian in a cavalry hat clueless to Blackfeet treaty rights, a hardware store manager prior to his election. Chairman Old Person was a special pet of white men and BIA, a tribal leader who had a "one man tribal water department" while negotiating the water compact. In 1928 Chief Rides-At-The-Door told the Senate Indian Affairs Committee "This reservation belongs to the Indians by the allotment; you should give me the same privilege as yours, to have the full say of my own land in my own country." The Blackfeet have been poor since the massive land frauds in 1918-1922 of allotted Blackfeet lands and robbery of the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry by white ranchers. There is not enough land for both white men and Blackfeet on our reservation, we will remain poor, forever, if we do not remove the white man from our stolen lands. The water compact money will be wasted and stolen by the tribal council and the despair and early deaths of Blackfeet children and tribal poverty will continue in tribal housing slums. There is nothing in the water compact for the people-no per capita-the Salish-Kootenai got $12,000 each and loans for cattle and business development. Where is our benefit from the water compact? It is a dumb deal done by dumber council members. Vote no on the water compact referendum, it puts all of the money into the tribal council families and nothing for us tribal members and trust landowners and cattle ranchers.  Bob Juneau Sr. a Blackfeet patriot

FUTURE GENERATIONS OF RANCH CHILDREN ENDANGERED HUMAN SPECIES

In 1893 there were 500 Blackfeet brands, 25,000 Blackfeet owned cattle, cash for all needful things, rations, supplies, equipment and the people were self-sufficient. Today there are few Blackfeet ranchers, few Blackfeet owned cattle, and a system in place that exploits trust landowners in favor of white ranchers and third-party leasers who garner profits Blackfeet ranchers and landowners are entitled to under the 1896 Agreement/Article 5 reserving the entire reservation for the exclusive use and occupancy of Blackfeet ranchers. Glacier county land base is made of stolen Blackfeet allotted lands except for two townships on the eastern boundary and Pondera county land base is entirely on the reservation except for two townships on the southern boundary, and each county has over 500 ranches and farms located primarily on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. White men have stolen and usurped Blackfeet treaty rights to graze Blackfeet-owned cattle on the reservation. A lease policy enacted by the tribal council and BIA allows third-party Blackfeet to front for white men in obtaining leases under Indian preference. "Citizenship of cattle" is the issue here because when Blackfeet owned cattle grazed the reservation in 1893 the Indian ranchers obtained self-sufficiency. Under the current lease policy white ranchers in Glacier county profit $67,000,000 in sales of cows and crops while white ranchers in Pondera county profit $75,000,000 in sales of cows and crops. How much does the tribal council and BIA lease policy profit for Blackfeet ranchers and trust landowners? I worked at the boarding school where many ranch kids lived during the school year but they did not have a future in ranching because of the tribal council and BIA lease policy favoring white men and third-party Blackfeet lessors. It is a criminal scheme and I have requested an investigation by the new Secretary of the Interior Zinke to correct the Bureau of Indian Affairs lease policy and to investigate third-party schemes to defraud the trust landowners of lease money and ranchers of their treaty right to graze Blackfeet-owned cattle on the reservation. The knowledge obtained by generations of Blackfeet ranchers on managing the range and water systems to become self-sufficient in production of basic foods and to produce a surplus to generate cash for all needful things. We live in a global economy and Chinese Government Purchasers came to the tribal council to offer to buy Blackfeet beef products and rated our beef superior to all other ranches in the United States. The tribal council and BIA are operating a century old exploitation of Blackfeet grazing lands for the white man. Chief White Calf protested the BIA turning our reservation into a white man's cow pasture. In the 'return on investment' of the lease policy trust landowners suffer under the BIA, we get 1/2 of one percent of the returns white men and third-party Blackfeet profit from leasing tribal and allotted lands. That is stealing the grass and treaty rights of the Blackfeet Indians. And, that is how the white man profits $67,000,000 and $75,000,000 from leasing our remaining lands and stealing 605 Blackfeet allotments in the forced patents cases. All of our problems stem from white men and crooked BIA and tribal council members usurpation of treaty rights of the Blackfeet people. In addition to all of these crimes the tribal council approved the water compact without any input from Blackfeet ranchers, trust landowners, or water rights owners and extinguished our allotted land claims. How will we able to function in the future if we lose all of our treaty rights and stolen lands? Vote no on the water compact it will give the white man title to our stolen lands and water rights, forever! Let us meet and discuss the issues before we vote on the water compact. What do we, the people, want from the water compact, and how can we secure the future for our coming generations. What changes do we want from the BIA and tribal council including funding Blackfeet cattle ranchers. Let us meet in a general council of the people as we did before we became white men under tribal democracy. Bob Juneau Sr.

LARGEST INDIAN LAND SWINDLE IN THE UNITED STATES

The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs in S. 2222 to extend the statute of limitations for commencing actions on behalf of an Indian tribe, band or group, or on behalf of an individual Indian whose land is held in trust or restricted status. Funding of Statue of Limitations Project (2415 Project) was not included in the President's budget for fiscal year 1979 but Congress provided $6 million for this project for fiscal year 1980. In January of 1979, the Bureau of Indian Affairs had identified approximately 700 cases, but after contracting with Legal Services Agency and the All Indian Pueblo Council to conduct independent research on outstanding claims led to quantum leap in the number of cases to 9,500 cases. BIA thought there might be an additional 5,800 outstanding Indian land claims which has grown to in excess of 17,000 claims on Indian reservations nationwide. The number and nature of the potential claims identified in Committee hearings involve large numbers of "forced fee" cases involving individually owned trust allotments in which the Department of the Interior issued fee patents to Indian land without the consent or approval of the Indian owner, thus subjecting the property to state and local taxation, exposing the property to debt foreclosures or freeing it for sale without requirement of Secretarial consent. Many other claims arise from trespass over Indian owned property by utility companies or state or local governments. There are claims for improper pumping or diversion of water and significant claims for extraction of mineral resources. Individual Indians may have meritorious claims on large numbers of allotments, title to which may have been unlawfully acquired. Old Age Assistance claims in which tribal elders were forced to sell trust property to white men as a prerequisite to receiving welfare assistance by state and county government. Environmental damage claims arising from leasing of Indian lands in extractive industries and water rights claims from pollution of fish stocks and Indian waters.
STATEMENT OF FORREST GERARD, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS
 Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is a pleasure to appear before you to discuss matters relating to the statute of limitations program. Our plans called for an all out search for unidentified claims and referral of all worthwhile claims to the Justice Department no later than November 30, 1979, they needed four months to prepare and file the claims in court. The all out search was conducted in the summer of 1979, by the end of summer we had potential claims of over 4,500 and by December of 1979 the number of identified potential claims climbed to a grand total of 9,768. Our search experience leads us to believe that another 5,000 or more identifiable claims in the field may not yet be inventoried. Our claims program has affected a significant number of our citizens in this country. In many instances hardships may result as a result of our suits. In many of these claims we are dealing with regaining title to property under circumstances in which defendants are holding void titles. The title issues in these claims are not subject to the statute of limitations as are the tort issues. Many prospective defendants are Indians [tribal council members and BIA officials]. Other defendants are immune to suit such as Indian Tribes and the Federal Government. Some defendants are corporate entities. A great many of Indian claimants are heirs of deceased allottees or trust patentees. We are unable to locate many of them. The United States Government has a [trust] responsibility to them just as it does to recognized tribes, bands, or groups. The eastern land claims and smaller land title cases have tort damage aspects subject to the statute of limitations. These claims are included in our claims program.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BARS INDIAN TORT CLAIMS ON STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
President Reagan stonewalled the Indian Money Damage Claims under the 2415 Indian Claims Program tossing out 17,000 unresolved Indian land claims defying federal court decisions and Public Law 96-217, Section 2, which he signed into law enacted by Congress ordering the swift and just completion of the ancient Indian land claims, a historical injustice. Congress passed laws in the 2415 Indian claims program as follows: (c) Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the time for bringing an action to establish the title to, or right of possession of, real or personal property.
BLACKFEET WATER COMPACT SETTLEMENT ACT EXTINGUISHES INDIAN TITLES
The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council approved the water compact in 2009 despite our protests that it would extinguish our allotted land claims for forced patents and other claims mentioned above to get our allotted lands returned from white men void patent in fee titles forgeries in state and county courts and $300 million in just compensation. VOTE NO ON THE WATER COMPACT, IT IS A FORGERY AND CRIMINAL ACT BY THE TRIBAL COUNCIL AND BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS TO DEFRAUD US OF OUR ALLOTTED LANDS. Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot  

United States Lawsuit Cancels Forced Patents in 1944; Decision No. 2947

In the District Court of the United States In And For The District of Montana, U.S., Plaintiff, v. Glacier County, et al, Defendants, Judge Pray Ruled; This is a suit in equity submitted to the court upon stipulation of counsel and documentary evidence. The facts may be briefly stated, likewise the theories of counsel for the respective parties. The lands of the [Blackfeet] Indian wards were described in the complaint are situated on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, were to be held by the United States under trust patents in favor of the Indians named therein for the period of twenty-five years and were to be free from taxation during that period. It appears that within two years after the issuance of these trust patents the government, under a statute hereinafter referred to, issued patents in fee to the Indians without any application therefor by the Indians and without their consent. Thereafter the lands were listed for taxation in Glacier County and the Indian owners were required to pay taxes. Some of the Indians defaulted in the payment of taxes and later the county obtained tax titles to their lands. Why the patents in fee were issued in such numbers and under such circumstances before two years of the trust period had expired does not clearly appear [forced patents conspiracy]. However, all of these patents in fee were later cancelled under the acts of Congress of Feb. 26, 1927 and of Feb. 21, 1931. The government contends that upon the issuance of the trust patents the Indians acquired vested rights to tax free lands for the period of the trust which could not be destroyed or impaired under the forgoing state of facts in any improvident or unauthorized manner, and that consequently the government is entitled to reimbursement on behalf of the Indians for the taxes collected. It is quite evident from the citations contained in complainants brief that the Indians lands were to be held for the Indians during that period, and that such period might be extended in the discretion of the President; and that any deed or contract for the conveyance of these lands during that time would be "absolutely null and void" It was well said by the Attorney General of the United States in 1888 "that the allotment lands provided for in the Act of 1887 are exempt from state or territorial taxation." That the lands covered by the act are held by the United States for the period of twenty-five years in trust for the Indians, such trust being an agency for the exercise of a federal power, and therefore outside the province of state or territorial authority." No authority exists for the state to tax lands which are held in trust for the purpose of carrying out its policy in reference to these Indians. There is no reason why the court should not hold here, as it has held heretofore, when the same question in substance has been presented, that the Indians possessed the right to have his lands free from state taxation for the period expressed in the patent, and that no act of Congress could disturb that right. Let a decree be entered as prayed for in the bill and in accordance  with the views of the court, to include the substance of the stipulation referred to in the complainants brief. Judge Pray, 1944
CHAIRMAN JOHN SHARP, BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL, SEPT. 25, 1944
Letter to Hon. James F. O'Connor, House of Representatives, Washington D.C.
Dear Sir: Patents in fee were issued to Indians as early as 1918, in many cases the Indian not knowing of the issuance of the patent in fee of his allotment. They were advised that they must accept the patent from the office of the Indian Bureau and whether or not they accepted the patent, the taxes must be paid. This procedure was promoted by white traders on the reservation to put the Indians landless. Many of these are valuable oil lands, one tract was taken from the Indian for a $2,000 mortgage and tax and produced $3,000,000 in oil revenues for the white man. Louis Hill of the Great Northern Railway was one of the major lessees through his lobbyists in Washington D.C. was able to get the Milk River Anticline, the most promising oil structure on the reservation patented in fee through the Indian Bureau. We find 275,578 acres alienated to white men by the issuance of fee patents to Indians and subsequently stolen by white men. We, the Blackfeet Indians, feel our lands remain in trust forever.
John Sharp, Chairman
Leo Kennerly, Councilman

FORGERY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS ROBS THE INDIANS

Forgery is commonly used by criminals to authenticate false documents and land titles like the trust land titles of 17,000 trust patents of Indian allottees nationwide that were tossed in the trash can by President Reagan in 1983. Among the thousands of forced patents of individual Indian allottees are hundreds of Blackfeet landowners starved to death in 1918-1922 to "force" them to sign consent documents to transfer their land to border-whites in state courts in complicity with United States Government trustees of Indian property. In 1919 the Montana Legislature enacted land titles called Patent-in-Fees to transfer 605 Blackfeet landowners to border-whites in Glacier and Pondera counties created within the sovereign borders of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. These white-apartheid territories had neither the consent of the Indians nor the prior approval of Congress required by sacred treaties between the United States and Indian tribes. The white-apartheid nation of South Africa suffered economic sanctions until it ended apartheid with the release of Nelson Mandela but the state of Montana maintains white-apartheid territories called "reservation/counties" extending white rule over the Indians and maintaining jurisdiction over stolen Indian property held by treaty with the United States. The secretary of the Interior has approved the Blackfeet Water Compact Settlement Act which extinguishes all Blackfeet land claims including the forced patents of Blackfeet allotments, water rights, oil & gas, and resources stolen by border-whites and the state of Montana estimated worth of a billion dollars and 325,250 acres of the most productive lands of the Blackfeet reservation producing $67,000,000 in sales of cows and crops on former Blackfeet land allotments annually while the descendants of those original Blackfeet allottees live in poverty in tribal housing slums. It is a human rights issue. Our people never got a day in court or justice for over a century and the water compact extinguishes our claims, "forever." The 1896 Agreement reserves tribal grazing lands for the exclusive use and occupancy of Blackfeet cattle ranchers and Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 authorizes the Indians to form tribal cooperatives to "cut out the middleman" white ranchers who lease allotted lands for $5 per acre for the best grazing lands in the northwest. In the water compact free trade of the Indians is usurped by white landowners and border-towns awarded first right of refusal of any business deal consummated by Blackfeet landowners to market bottled water, beef, agricultural products to global markets. Chinese Government Purchasers were on the reservation offering to buy bottled water, beef, or any type of product produced by the Blackfeet Indians and called us Indians "relatives." Las Vegas Casinos are interested in our pure water resources flowing out of Glacier National Park, the last of millennium glacier water. The water compact subordinates our treaty rights to a group of border-whites who are in an illegal trespass on the reservation for over a century. It would only take a first year law student to win a massive tort claim against the state of Montana and the United States Government if Indians were not under white rule. Therefore, we must petition world nations and people to boycott Montana corporations and white ranchers and farmers who are responsible for this human rights violation. We, the Indian people, are not allowed to bring our grievances to the World Court, and remain under the trust of the secretary of the Interior. If the Indians do not get our stolen lands returned with just compensation for a century of loss of revenues, and are not allowed to sell Indian products in the global markets then why should white landowners and corporations be allowed access to global markets. We appeal for justice for a group of Indians who have not received justice in Congress or the courts of the United States and we are about to be annihilated economically for another century of starvation and epic poverty in the water compact forced upon us by the United States and state of Montana. In this world economy freedom equals "money power" and we have no money, it is stolen by white-apartheid in Montana and the United States of America. Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.