BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL GUILTY OF TRIBAL GENOCIDE

BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL GUILTY OF TRIBAL GENOCIDE PRACTICES

The United Nations Genocide Convention defined a legal definition of genocide whereby a government or nation aims to plan, calculate, and implement, “destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and lives of individuals belonging to such groups.” The tribal poor ranks are growing of tribal members who do not possess political influence, clout, or legal means to challenge the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council actions, policies, and resolutions that brought about the “disintegration of the political, social, and economic structures of individual Blackfeet trust landowners, cattle ranchers, business owners, and others who are victims of the tribal courts decisions influenced by members of the tribal council in protecting their family members from prosecution for their crimes against tribal members who are not political families. Chairman Old Person protected his son, relatives and in-laws from tribal prosecutions and he even wrote to a federal judge requesting “leniency” for his nephew convicted in federal court of raping an infant. Chief Old Person was found guilty of incest by a Blackfeet traditional court but they had no power to punish him because he controls tribal courts. Therefore, the Blackfeet tribe has an incestuous chief to our collective shame. The Blackfeet tribal council corrupts the morals of the tribe by preventing the prosecution and conviction of political families by their absolute power over the people by concentrated powers contained in the constitution approved by the United States Government. The Blackfeet people “own” the reservation including approximately 897,000 acres of trust lands owned by individual Blackfeet Indians with 800,000 acre feet of water rights. These are individually owned lands usurped by tribal council and Bureau of Indian Affairs conspiracy to rob the revenues produced by these lands by third-party leasers who sub-lease to white ranchers and pocket millions of dollars due to trust landowners. This is a criminal conspiracy “preventing the preservation and economic development” of allotted landowners. The Cobell Case land buy-back program is spreading the tribal council/BIA conspiracy to rob allotted lands since once the ‘tribe’ gets ownership of ‘fragments’ of your family allotment, the tribal council attaches it to tribal lands and leases it to white ranchers through tribal council operatives for large profits while you get $5 per acre lease payment for the best grazing land in Montana. Tribal council land board chairman Archie St. Goddard was cited in an F.B.I. report for leasing up 35,000 acres of tribal land while an elected member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council. The tribal constitution contains a “Preference” clause that allows tribal council members to lease tribal lands and tribal oil reserves to corporations. Wright Hagerty, the first tribal chairman got rich by leasing tribal oil reserves to himself and sub-leasing tribal oil to oil corporations profiting millions of dollars for himself. Tribal council member Iliff McKay got a 100 year lease of 40 acres on the west end of Browning that still has 60 years to run. Under the tribal constitution preference clause all of these are legal actions by tribal council members. This is how tribal politicians “outlaw justice.” Slow-Death Measures genocide kills slowly by poverty, joblessness, disease, malnutrition, high unemployment, corruption, and criminal conspiracy by crooked politicians. Nothing is accomplished by changing the tribal constitution, everything can be accomplished by a revolution of the people. Our children are dying, our youth have no alternatives to drug and alcohol abuse, and the people are living in poverty in tribal housing slums. They are the faces of tribal council genocide.

Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot