BLACKFEET LANDOWNERS SURROUNDED BY BORDER-WHITES

A Bureau of Indian Affairs Report in 1934 documented the existence of an "exclusive white territory" of void patent-in-fee white landowners who generated three and one/half times the revenues of other counties due to leasing of Blackfeet allotted lands, and the fact that the white men grabbed the water holes and water courses leaving "dry" Blackfeet allotments "unusable" for Blackfeet ranchers. By 1934 border-whites robbed 312,250 acres of productive Blackfeet allotments through forgeries of Blackfeet trust allottees land titles in county courts in complicity [partners-in-crime] with the BIA. All of these Blackfeet allotted land claims were "extinguished, forever" by the approval of the water compact. Where do we go from here? First, we have to correct the criminal conspiracy to devalue allotted and tribal grazing lands conducted by the tribal council and BIA to generate profits for third-party Blackfeet leasers who sub-lease to white ranchers while Blackfeet landowners get nothing but $5 per acre lease payments. White ranchers & farmers generate $142,000,000 annually in sales of cows and crops in Glacier and Pondera counties, much of the money comes from fattening cattle on allotted and tribal lands. There is nothing in the water compact to help Blackfeet ranchers & trust landowners. I am exploring the possibility of a class-action lawsuit to compensate the Blackfeet landowners for loss of revenues since the BIA lease policy was established allowing white ranchers to graze cattle on the reservation, thereby violating the 1896 Agreement/Article Five which reserves the entire reservation for the "exclusive use and occupancy" of Blackfeet ranchers. I have also sent an E-Mail to Secretary of the Interior Zinke requesting a federal investigation of the BIA and tribal council fraudulent lease policy cheating the Blackfeet trust landowners of millions of dollars each year when the white ranchers cattle trucks bring white cattle to fatten their beef on our grass for a paltry lease payment to the landowners and profits to third-party Blackfeet fronts who sub-lease to white ranchers and pocket the profits generated from our grass and grazing lands in a criminal enterprise operated by the Blackfeet Agency and Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to defraud us.
Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet trust landowner.