FOLLOW THE MONEY, CATCH THE CROOKS, SEND THEM TO PRISON

FOLLOW THE MONEY, CATCH THE CROOKS, SEND THEM TO PRISON

In Glacier county there are over 500 farmers & ranchers who generate revenues of $67,000,000 while in Pondera county there are over 500 farmers & ranchers who generate $75,000,000 in sales of cows & crops with another $15,000,000 in federal subsidies. The Blackfeet ranch families have been destroyed by the tribal council and Bureau of Indian Affairs criminal conspiracy to lease and sub-lease tribal and allotted lands to white men through third-party Blackfeet fronts who use tribal preference to lease up tribal and allotted lands and sub-lease to white ranchers while trust landowners get $5 per acre. Chief White Calf went to Washington D.C. and protested the government turning the reservation into a “white man’s cow pasture” and ended leasing to white men in the 1896 Agreement/Article Five which reserves tribal grazing lands for the “exclusive use and occupancy of Blackfeet cattle ranchers.” In 1896 there were 500 tribal brands and the Blackfeet Indians owned 25,000 cattle, shipping steers to Chicago Stockyards, and had cash for all needful things, as well as equipment and supplies. The people were self-sufficient by cattle ranching while tribal members got cash for leasing their lands to Blackfeet ranchers. “Citizenship of cattle” is the issue and the key to developing the Blackfeet cattle industry in a full market integration of processing beef in plants owned by the cattle ranchers and trust landowners and selling “choice cuts of beef” to special markets to gain the highest return on investment. That means the development of a Blackfeet Cattle Ranchers Association as required by the constitution and charter under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act requirement to “cut out the [white] middleman” from exploiting the vast grasslands of the reservation. In 1910 the Bureau of Indian Affairs leased the entire St. Mary Valley for ten cents an acre to James J. Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway, while agency trader Joe Sherburne robbed the Monroe teenage sisters of their allotments that make up the township of St. Mary Village and a right-of-way from the highway to the entrance to Glacier Park. The Blackfeet ranchers and trust landowners live under an economic apartheid system created by tribal politicians and Bureau of Indian Affairs officers. Freedom to the old time Blackfeet Indians was to avoid white rule on the reservation. The tribal constitution allows the people to vote in tribal elections but denies civil liberties in tribal courts allowing tribal council members to rob with impunity. It is a federal felony to defraud trust landowners of their revenues managed in individual Indian Money Accounts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that are diverted to the perpetrators of this massive lease fraud. In economic terms, the tribal council has reversed the economic gains made by Blackfeet cattle ranchers by 1896. The tribe and allotted landowners “profit” for leasing their lands under this fraudulent leasing system is ½ of one percent while third-party Blackfeet fronts and white men get the remaining 99 and ½ percent of revenues generated by allotted lands and tribal lands under the current lease policy of the Blackfeet Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs. That is a fraud upon the Blackfeet people and trust landowners.

Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot