No money is set aside in Congress to pay the Blackfeet for approving the water compact, call it off, call the cops, congress lied to the chiefs! Jeanne Whiting is the same NARF attorney who screamed at Blackfeet trust landowners, "You people don't own any water rights!" and the BIA man stood up and said, "We didn't steal your land and there is no such thing as forced patents!". There is also no money in the water compact for the Blackfeet trust landowners or cattle ranchers who still own 987,000 acres of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Chief Rides-At-The-Door told the senators, "The Indians own the reservation by the allotment act." He was right! In 1944 Judge Pray ruled in U.S. v. Glacier County that, "The lands of the Blackfeet Indians situated on the Blackfeet Reservation were to be held by the United States under TRUST PATENTS in favor of the Indians for the period of 25 years and were to be free of 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 [Blackfeet] Indians without any application therefore by the Indians and without their consent. Thereafter the [Blackfeet] lands were listed for taxation in Glacier County and the Indian owners were required to pay taxes. Some of the Indians defaulted [1,417 Blackfeet landowners] 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 within two years of the trust period had expired does not clearly appear. The government contends that upon the issuance of the trust patents the [Blackfeet] Indians acquired vested property rights to tax free lands for the period of the trust which could not be destroyed or impaired under the foregoing state of facts in any improvident or unauthorized manner and 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 lands in question 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 would be "ABSOLUTELY NULL AND VOID"!!! It was therefore well said by the Attorney General of the United States, in an opinion delivered in 1888, "That the allotment lands provided for in the Act of 1887 are exempt from state or territorial taxation upon the grounds above stated, namely, that the lands covered by this act are held by the United States for the period of 25 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. Such exemption will be found in Sec. 4 of the Enabling Act, State of Montana, of Feb. 22, 1889, and the state constitution carries a like provision-"No authority exists for the state to tax lands which are held in trust by the United States for the purposes of carrying out its policy in reference to these Indians."
GLACIER AND PONDERA COUNTIES MURDER HUNDREDS OF BLACKFEET ALLOTTEES
The early settlers in Montana came from Confederate states and they commenced to murder the Blackfeet people to force land cessions. From 1863 to 1881 these confederates murdered thousands of Blackfeet people, killed off tribal buffalo herds and caused tribal starvation so that Blackfeet populations dropped from 7,800 in 1863 to just 1,811 Blackfeet people left alive by 1890, a campaign of Blackfeet genocide that we chronicled in "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" a history book of the Blackfeet Tribe available on Amazon.Com. We traced the whole history of border-whites robbing and murdering the Blackfeet Indians for land, gold, oil, and now our water resources. We die at age of 50 years while white people live on average to the age of 70 years. This is called "Slow-Death" genocide by the United Nations whereby a people are targeted by a more powerful nation and their property is looted and they are denied the same privileges and rights available to others in the territory concerned and they die "slowly" from hunger, diseases, malnutrition, and poverty, with no jobs or economic opportunity and their rights usurped by the more politically powerful people. Indian Health Service doctors told me our children are suffering a juvenile diabetes epidemic due to a lack of proper nutrition-our children do not get three good meals per day, proper shelter, or a good education in public schools. The doctors said the children are losing their permanent teeth which will lead to heart disease, cancers, and kidney disease which will require kidney transplants by age of twenty. Meanwhile the tribal council has raised their salaries above $100,000 each costing us $900,000 annually in addition to millions of dollars in travel and $4.2 million for their four year terms of office. The reform of the tribal constitution is coming up in the tribal referendum vote soon, and what will happen to the water compact if we approve it before we actually know what is in it or what the consequences of the change in tribal council organization and separation of powers? In any case Congress is controlled by republicans who will never fund $425 million to the Blackfeet Tribe. President Trump is a real Indian-hater since tribal casinos beat his casinos causing him $18 million in debts and he hates tribal sovereignty and will veto the water compact. Our claims for the return of 1,417 Blackfeet allotments with $600 million in just compensation and the tribal claims for robbery of a billion dollars worth of oil brings tribal and allotted claims to $1.6 billion, quite a bit more money than the water compact promises in which we give our stolen allotted lands to the white racists in Glacier County who murdered and robbed hundreds of our relatives during 1918-1922. Congress has an Indian Claims Fund already set aside to pay off tribal and allotted land claims as we were told by the senate lawyer when we won our forced patents land claims and oil claims in 1983, but once again chairman Old Person vetoed our claims. That is an interesting question. Why is Earl Old Person always on the side of white men and state of Montana? It also brings up the question why President Trump will not criticize Russian President Putin. We now know Earl is guilty of incest and serial rapes of Indian women at the tribal office and is blackmailed by the BIA and white men. It is not unusual for powerful politicians to be blackmailed, it is rumored President Trump is blackmailed by Putin for "pee tapes" of Trump with Russian prostitutes. That rumor was on national television! Chairman Barnes and the tribal council only see the money for themselves to get richer on our poverty and helplessness. Whatever would they do with $425 million? The money for the forced patents will go the tribal members and to get our cattle ranchers back on their feet so we can feed ourselves and get lease payments for our allotted grazing lands in the amount of $67,000,000 that white ranchers take from the reservation. We want our land back! And our lost revenues before we give away more tribal water and lands to the white man. Vote no on the compact! It is evil and dirty.
Bob Juneau Sr.
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