BLACKFEET "DOUGHBOYS" WORLD WAR ONE SOLDIERS STARVED FOR LANDS

How did the white man get land on the Blackfeet Reservation? Joseph K. Dixon, President of the National Indian Memorial Association wrote General John J. Pershing, General of the Armies in World War One in 1921, that, "One hundred fifty Blackfeet Indians fought in World War One on the fields of France and only about twenty came back, and not one of them sound and many of them wounded; that these Indian veterans are now dying by the roadside and so are many of their other tribal members, from sheer hunger; that the tribe is being decimated by the pangs of hunger; that their hunting grounds have been pre-empted and their land filched. I want to know General Pershing, if you are able to find anywhere, in the annals of the deplorable conditions obtaining in starving Russia and hunger-ridden Armenia, anything more heart rending or deplorable than this condition on the Blackfeet Reservation-denied absolutely by Cato Sells, Indian Commissioner, unheeded by Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and why it is and how it is that this nation will pour out its treasures of food and clothing and sympathy on the children of foreign lands while they leave destitute and dying Indians under the control of a merciless bureaucracy. There is no speech, there is no language, there is no heart-rending cry that will in any fashion become adequate to the description of such a state of affairs. Please use your influence and great heart to strike a blow somewhere, somehow, that will rouse the people to a realization of the horrors that exist at their own door, and that the spirit of mercy and of good-will clustering about the manger and cradle in Bethlehem will bring gifts of food and clothing to these dependent, oppressed, and damaged Indians, old and blind, who lived to rear boys whom they sent to fight under your swords in France, who are likewise wounded, helpless and suffering with their fathers whom they cannot help. God have mercy on us if we do not do something and do it soon." Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior immediately protested, going so far as to send a special messenger to Mr. Rodman Wannamaker in New York stating that I am "abusing the United Stats Government." Not many weeks later the Women's Club of San Francisco wrote a letter to Senator W.P. Dillingham of Vermont detailing the awful conditions obtaining on the Blackfeet Reservation. Senator Dillingham sent the letter to Cato Sells, Commissioner of Indian Affairs who stated "No reports have been received by me of Indians starving to death under the jurisdiction  of the Federal Government suffering from want of food." That statement was made in the face of the fact that the Joint Commission of Congress to Investigate Indian Affairs, serial no. two, part 6-A, by Senator Harry Lane of Oregon, and in it you will find hunger, neglect, oppression, failure, injustice and horror personified. Cato Sells was in possession of that report at the very moment he wrote to Senator Dillingham." James Willard Schultz wrote, "I, myself saw that the rations doled out to the few families that had ration tickets could not possibly last them more than three days which would leave them nine days to starve. The bacon given out was not fit for a dog to eat; it was so rotten that it made a stench in the great building." Hart Merriam Schultz, son of James Willard Schultz,who  had a Blackfeet mother, wrote, "Well the Blackfeet are about finished. Excepting a few old people they get no rations. They have no grain crops and very little hay and the dreadful winter is yet to come. Yesterday Many Guns and Dog Gun came to see me and said they were so hungry they had to ask for help. Unless you all help they will all die off this winter. An old woman came to see me, walking all the way from Two Medicine. She was in rags and starving, I gave her a meal and bought coffee, sugar, and meat for her and she was so affected by this, she broke down and cried. I tell you, by God, it makes me so mad to see the condition these Indians are in, they are plumb out of food and their faces have turned grey from hunger. It serves well the interests of the purposes of those who are after this big grass country of the Blackfeet Reservation, now practically all taken by agents of the big meat trust Swift & Co. through its subsidiary the Portland Land & Cattle Co. The patents issued by Cato Sells resulted in the traders at Browning where one trader had 212 of the land allotments and other real estate sharks has hundreds more."
 Note by Bob Juneau: The Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation have sat in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee for a century now, and the water compact will hand over Patent-in-Fee titles to the white ranchers living on those stolen Blackfeet lands forever. I have fought for these claims since 1980 when the Blackfeet Chiefs asked me to help the people with their "land problems", which turned out to be these claims. I am at the end of my life and I fear I have failed to win our claims and the restoration of 1,200 Blackfeet Indian Allotted lands leaving us with poverty forever. Please, if you have any humanity, E-Mail President Obama to protest this century old historic injustice to a loyal ally of the United States since the 1855 Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Amity. The Blackfeet Tribe has an 80% unemployment rate due to border-whites occupation of the productive lands and usurpation of the cattle industry and economic rights of the Blackfeet Indians and the incorporation of Glacier and Pondera Counties on the stolen lands of the Blackfeet Indians.  

BLACKFEET WATER COMPACT ROBS BLACKFEET LANDOWNERS OF WATER RIGHTS

Incredibly stupid is the only accurate description I can give to the tribal council's management of water compact negotiations with the state of Montana and the United States Government. Nobody is going to save us from council stupidity this time as water attorneys warn "COMPACTS ARE FOREVER.!" A recent Supreme Court opinion issued by Justice Ginsberg says no longer will the federal government be responsible for tribal government mistakes in getting beat by business or state governments. The tribal council is sailing it's tribal ship forevermore and if they screw up, too bad! In addition, we, the Blackfeet allotted landowners were tossed from the tribal council meetings on the water compact by Chairman Old Person. I was pushed to the wall by tribal council security when I tried to bring up our unresolved forced fee patents cases of 1,200 Blackfeet trust land allotments robbed by Glacier County commissioners, county attorney, Blackfeet Agents, and border-whites who are the white ranchers and farmers who own grazing lands and irrigated farm lands covering 312,250 acres of prime reservation land and water rights. We have the winning hand in land claims and water compact negotiations but we never played it, instead being duped by state officials offer of $150 million dollars to be paid in 10 annual installments of $15 million to the tribal council. In the end it costs the state of Montana zero dollars for taking Blackfeet water for over a century because in 2013 the Montana Legislature set aside $150 million to draw interest to pay off the Blackfeet Tribe for a century of robbery of Blackfeet water rights in the Diversion of the St. Mary and Milk River to Canada and north central Montana farmers and towns. By contrast the Crow Tribe got $500 million for 6,000 acres of Crow land taken by the Reclamation Service to build Yellow Tail Dam in the 1950's. The Blackfeet Tribe was paid less than $10,000 for the diversion of St. Mary-Milk Rivers in 1904. Is that justice? More to the point, we, the Blackfeet landowners claims to recover our stolen allotted lands are extinguished forever by the water compact, therefore our claims to 1,200 allotments and water rights get nothing! In addition the valuable water rights of the remaining Blackfeet allotted lands cannot be developed without a "First Right of Refusal" to be offered to white men for any water marketing deal that we develop to sell bottled water to global water markets, a billion dollar giveaway. Chinese Government purchasers were in the tribal office a few years ago offering to purchase Blackfeet beef, water, oil, or any other product owned by Blackfeet Indians, and they called us their "relatives." White men murdered hundreds of Blackfeet landowners for fortunes made in the allotment period of 1919-1922 when Glacier and Pondera County incorporated county government on stolen Blackfeet allotments. That is "white-apartheid" on the reservation! Today the method of murdering Indians is defined as "Slow Death Measures" genocide by the United Nations whereby depriving people of the means of living and inducing poverty causes early deaths of victims. The past century of poverty of the Blackfeet Indians is the result of the forced patents robbery of the prime Blackfeet allotted lands, water rights, and the successful Blackfeet cattle industry. Chairman Old Person called us a "bureau problem" and refused to help us until 2001 when we forced him to sign tribal resolution 224-2001 which requested the return of all allotted lands and taxes to the Blackfeet landowners and Blackfeet Tribe. He refused to testify before Congress for our claims as directed by the tribal resolution passed in 2001,and our claims are not a part of the water negotiations although the compact reads that all past claims of tribal and allotted landowners are extinguished by the compact. Do the tribal council and chief Old Person see us Blackfeet Indians as important as saving the Badger-Two Medicine. What about saving our allotted land and water rights? Our people are slowly dying in tribal housing slums while the council lives in luxury on our money. The least they could do is to protect our land claims and water rights since we pay their huge salaries and travel vacations and they stab us in the back in the compact. Does anyone care that Babb and cabins on St. Mary Lake will be flooded as soon as the compact is approved? And, there will be state game wardens on St. Mary Lake to kick off the Indian recreation. I will not vote for the water compact because there is nothing for us to vote for except white rule over us and the end of our treaty rights,
Bob Juneau Sr.

POPE FRANCIS SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR TAKING INDIAN LAND AND ABUSING INDIAN CHILDREN

The assault by the Christian Churches on the Sun Religion of the Blackfoot Indians caused the border whites to view the Indians as savages and the United States Government to institute policies to stamp out Indian religion, language, dance, and religious ceremonies necessary to mental and spiritual health of the Indian people. Jesuit priests wrote the Indian religion was a mixture of pantheism and animism in which the Indians believed in evil spirits and labeled the Sun religion as a "superstition." The church joined with President Grant to form the "Peace Policy" in which the Indian children would be separated from their tribe and family, which the president hoped would "advance the metamorphosis of the savages." Special Agent Horatio L. Seward reported in 1890 that of the 1,811 genocide survivors out of tribal population of 7,800 in 1860 that "Perhaps 5% of these Indians are Roman Catholic and the others remain sun worshippers." The church and government schools policy is to beat the Indian out of the child and a white man will emerge from the human wreckage of the Peace Policy. Browning Public Schools have a drop-out rate of 50% that is a major factor in tribal poverty as only 8% go on to higher education after the beatings they take in public schools on the reservation. The Holy Family Mission on the Blackfeet Reservation had baptized 665 Indians, mostly children after being captured by the agency police and returned to the mission and by cutting food rations caused the Indian parents to relent on sending their children to the mission instead of starving. The Holy Family Mission and other church sects were given Blackfeet land to conduct schools and missionary work by the government. In 1881 Agent Young reported the Jesuit priest had run off with three Indian boys and had not put them in school and was living with them somewhere in Montana. There were hundreds of children sexually exploited by Catholic priests in Heart Butte and Browning but it took a century for the lawsuit to finally pay a few hundred dollars to the victims. These priests were on the reservation for 65 years and never charged with molesting girls & boys of their parish. As for tribal and allotted lands taken by the church and never returned the Holy Family Mission has been closed for 50 years but white men live there and own the property. I asked the Bureau of Catholic Missions to help us win our land claims but no! The monsignor merely said, "I will continue to try to understand the points of injustices and duplicity that has been the curse of the Blackfeet Nation." That is the extent of the mission since 1874. Justice is due the Indians. Bob Juneau Sr.

DISPOSSESSED BLACKFEET HEIRS NEED HELP TO RECOVER 1,200 ORIGINAL BLACKFEET ALLOTMENTS

Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Resolution Number 224-2001 passed 15 years ago by the tribal council and signed by Chairman Old Person requests the return of all allotted Blackfeet lands taken under the "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" compiled by the Blackfeet Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1982 as required by Congress per the twin bills titled "Ancient Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1982" which provide for the "retroactive validation" of Indian land transfers and "extinguishment" of Indian claims arising from transfers not previously approved either by Congress or the Executive Branch Officials. In 1982 we had a tribal delegation to Washington D.C. which met with the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on the Blackfeet allotted land claims and were successful in getting a senate approval to bring our claims to the committee on the requirement that we get a tribal council resolution requesting a senate investigation of hundreds of forced patents of Blackfeet allotments in 1919-1922 when Glacier and Pondera County Courts severed 1,200 Blackfeet original allotments for illegal tax and liens of white men. The BIA officials and Secretary of the Interior are defendants in Covelo Indian Community v. James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, for complicity [partners-in-crime] in the Blackfeet allotted land frauds. The local white men also robbed the successful Blackfeet cattle industry and a billion dollars worth of oil from allotted lands through county courts. None of these losses were part of the Cobell Case Settlement and that is why the Indian landowners got chump change for billions of dollars in losses since 1919; per land frauds of the Blackfeet land allotments. The void Patent-in-Fee lands of white men cover every township of the reservation and are exclusive white territory [white-apartheid] of white men since the Blackfeet were not allowed to vote in elections or hold public office in Montana. Now the door is being closed on our century old claims by the Blackfeet/Cree Glacier County Commissioners. Arthur Lazurus, an expert in Indian claims says, Many Supreme Court Decisions emphasized that "Legislative or executive branch "retroactive validation" of Indian land transfers should be preceded by a determination that "no fraud or imposition had been practiced upon the Indians from whom the deed was originally purchased." The Supreme Court also ruled that "Just and equitable title, not title obtained by fraud, may be retroactively validated" and that "A deed conveyed by an incompetent Indian would not be effective." My only hope left is the "new" tribal council help Blackfeet victims of ancient land frauds. We need a tribal delegation to Washington D.C. but I wonder why the tribal council never mentioned unresolved allotted land claims in the water compact? Bob Juneau, patriot

WE NEED TRIBAL NATION-BUILDING ON THE BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION

A tribal nation-building policy is needed to energize reservation economies and create jobs for the 80% of Blackfeet Indians unemployed on the reservation. Tribal housing slums brought crime and drug abuse among the people and 80% unemployment rate caused juvenile diabetes epidemic among Blackfeet children. Iraq after Bush's bombing is in better shape than the Blackfeet Reservation who have been hit by an economic bombshell of poor and stupid policy from the federal government "professionals" who are bureaucrats that manage the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the rogue federal agency created by Congress to control reservation economies and to control the Indian people by paternalistic policies that kill individual initiative to get out of poverty. Every time Indian landowners try to change the land leasing policies created by the Bureau of Indian Affairs their initiative is challenged by the white ranchers who lease individual Blackfeet lands from the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a pittance leaving the Indian landowners out of the profits from his own property. It is an Indian land leasing fraud that has gone on for over a century and is the policy that keeps the Blackfeet landowners in a perpetual state of poverty. The Blackfeet people still own 1.3 million acres of the reservation and have unresolved land fraud claims awaiting resolution by Congress since 1928. Tribal nation-building is more than providing health care and welfare which is itself inadequate and rationed out like a brick of government cheese.  Federal Indian policy is needed that follows the special treaty rights that each tribe possesses from treaties signed to make way for the white man in America. The Blackfeet Tribe signed treaties that gave the United States a vast territory stretching from the Dakota border in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Canadian border in the north to the Yellowstone River in the south. The Blackfeet 1896 Agreement reserved the Blackfeet Reservation for the Indian cattle ranchers and the Blackfeet landowners for the purpose of rebuilding the tribal economy destroyed by the deliberate extermination of tribal buffalo herds which provided food, shelter and clothing for the tribe to survive the cold winters. The Blackfeet cattle ranchers had succeeded by 1893 in the new economy by building the self-reliant tribal cattle industry for 500 tribal ranchers, 25,000 cattle, improvements to the land for ranch houses, barns, gardens, root cellars fences, and small livestock, dairy, egg production, hay, and were shipping cattle to Chicago Stockyards, selling beef and hay to the government and everyone had cash and food! Today the cattle industry is destroyed by the federal government policy of leasing land to white ranchers for a tiny lease payment for the Indian landowners inadequate for even a subsistence on the ranch. Tribal housing slums were built in town and there the people starve and die early deaths. We are outdoor people who love our country much as the white Americans love their property. Today, because of the land frauds conducted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, we have "white treaty Indians" on our reservation, who robbed the best reservation lands and a billion dollars worth of oil, and are back to take our precious water because the white man has poisoned his own water and now needs our pure waters. We still own 1.3 million acres of prime grazing lands that produce upwards of $85 million for white ranchers living on the stolen Blackfeet lands in a white-apartheid territory called Glacier County transplanted by the State of Montana Legislature onto the Blackfeet Reservation to cover up the massive land frauds and to give the white man a void Patent-in-Fee title awarded in county court by a cattlemen judge and jury living up to the "Code of the West" which means no Indian has any rights in state courts or state laws. The Indians live in a political  "Prisoner's Dilemma" having no recourse for justice.and add to this century old injustice the United States Government "complicity" in the Indian land frauds and the fact of a century of stonewalling our land claims in Congress. What chance do we have in American Justice? I brought our claims to Congress in 2001 but our chiefs made regular delegations of diplomatic missions to officially protest the white apartheid systems on our reservation since 1928. The land frauds were exposed for a century with no removals of a single white squatter from reservation lands. Is justice only for white men in America?
Bob Juneau Sr.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S "ART OF THE DEAL" WILL MAKE INDIANS RICH ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS

President Trump would immediately make better deals for Indian trust landowners who wish to develop their real estate holdings worth billions of dollars. Indian land contains oil, gold, uranium, coal, natural gas, mining ores, water aquifers, timber, etc. but the government has not made the Indian landowners rich as it has for white landowners not under direct trust management of federal government officials.  We, the Blackfeet Indian trust landowners, own 1.3 million acres of prime real estate next to Glacier National Park, yet we are the poorest people on the Blackfeet Reservation, while a tiny group of white ranchers, businessmen, farmers, oil men, etc. have gotten rich on our own lands while we qualify for every federal, state, county, or tribal welfare programs. Welfare is the economy of the Blackfeet Tribe! That is a shame as well as an indication of the performance of the United States Congress; the President, and Secretary of the Interior in protecting and developing Indian property to make the Indian self-reliant in the new economy as a treaty goal. DONALD TRUMP! Come to the Blackfeet Reservation and I will show you the "CROWN OF THE CONTINENT" where the next Trump Resort should be built in connection with the tax-free lands of the Blackfeet Indians for a year around resort with Glacier Park tourism in July & August [$168 million] in lodging, meals, beverage, gas, souvenirs, and the ski possibilities of Divide Mountain Ski Resort of 9,000 to 12,000 skiers on the hill at St. Mary Village, as well as snow mobile and ice fishing for winter vacationers. There are investment possibilities for bottled water plants, food and beverage processing, cattle ranching and irrigated farming on a vast scale, and ready markets for beef, bottled water, and food and beverage plants, all within the reservation land base and tax-free tribal and allotted Blackfeet lands. President Trump would immediately see the rich possibilities on many Indian reservations across the United States. My people love money too! It is a dirty lie told about Indians that we don't like money! We don't like being cheated and we don't like being treated like imbeciles either! President Trump set your ship of state toward the Indian reservations and make the Indians Rich too! Please read the "Sacred Buffalo Vision" and be warned it is a story of greed not development. I quit the "cheese-eating" Democrats and join the Trump Campaign for Rich Indians! We own 1.3 million acres of the finest land in the nation, yet we are the poorest in our own land, and it is the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of the Interior, and Presidents who are responsible for this outrage on Indian landowners! I am Bob Juneau Sr. owner of 1,000 acres of tax-free land with a river running through the property. Please President Trump, Call me for promoting  a better deal! Here is my Phone No. (406) 493-0894,

A CENTURY OF OUTRAGE, MURDERS, ROBBERY, AND USURPATION OF BLACKFEET TREATY LANDS

In 1921 the National Indian Memorial Association who are friends of the Blackfeet Indians reported the latest outrage on the Indians. It was a concerted effort by Glacier County Attorney, local white men, the Great Northern Railway, its subsidiary the Park Saddle Horse Company and owners James J. Hill, and his son Louis Hill, Swift & Armor Company, the big meat trust and its subsidiary the Portland Land & Cattle Company, United States Indian Agents F.C. Campbell, H.G. Wilson, and the Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, a Texan, who allowed the Texas Cattle Kings trespass on the Blackfeet Reservation. Joe Sherburne, kingpin of the racketeering was the agency trader, local banker, real estate, insurance, grocery, freight, and all other money-making enterprises on the reservation. This is the so-called "agency ring" a criminal gang operating on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation by starving the Indian landowners to force their signatures on applications for "fee patents" on their [tax-free] trust land allotments, so that the Indian lands may be taxed in county court and tax deeds issued for hundreds of delinquent taxes or liens of white men filed in county court. Protests against the mass starvation of hundreds of the Blackfeet landowners caused by the Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, a Texan who refused to eject illegal Texas cattle herds trespass on the reservation or to enforce any collection of fees or permits from white cattlemen operating illegally on the "big grass country" of the Blackfeet Indians. These land frauds are the modern day "Forced Fee Patents Cases on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation" which alienated 529,000 acres of prime grazing lands and irrigated farm lands, oil fields that produced over a billion dollars for the border-whites and oil companies. In 1979 Congress held a Hearing on Statute of Limitations Extension of the Pre-1966 Indian Money Damage Claims, and Mr. Forrest Gerard, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, Testified under Oath, That: By the end of summer of 1979 we had uncovered over 4,500 Indian claims, but potential claims continued to arrive and by December of 1970 the number of cases reached a grand total of 9,768, but our search experience leads us to believe that another 5,00 or more claims in the field may not yet be inventoried. The 2415 Indian claims program has affected a significant number of our [white] citizens in this country. In many of these suits we are dealing with regaining Indian trust titles to these Indian lands in which [white] Patent-in-Fee are holding by void titles. A great majority of the thousands of legal heirs to deceased allottees and trust patentees are the dispossessed heirs to an estimated 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands on Indian reservations across the United States. Another problem is the complicity of the Government in these Indian Money Damage Claims presenting the public spectacle of the United States Government suing itself on behalf of its Indian wards. President Reagan decided not only not to litigate the Indian claims, but also refused to send the Indian claims to Congress for resolution by restoring Indian trust land titles and just compensation for over a century of illegal trespass by the State of Montana and Glacier County border-whites. The Blackfeet people have lived in tribal poverty for over a century due to encroachment by border-whites in the Sovereign Blackfeet Nation. Bob Juneau Sr. Please purchase "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" available on Amazon.Com