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.
Thank You Bob Juneau Sr. Truth speaker!
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