Tuesday, September 30, 2014

WORLD NEEDS WATER-INDIANS NEED CASH-LETS MAKE A DEAL

Shakespeare said, "The evil men do, lives after them." The Blackfeet Indians have parasites called border-whites who have robbed Blackfeet land, water, oil, gold, cattle industry, and our special treaty rights to own all of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. There is an ocean of clean water aquifers underlying the reservation and clean mountain streams flowing from the east slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The Montana Legislature enacted legal anomaly "reservation/counties" under state laws within reservation boundaries to cover-up their massive land frauds and called it Glacier County. That is how the border-white man got on the reservation, an " illegal emigrant from the states" as Agent Wright reported in 1867 on confederate gold miners in Blackfoot Treaty Lands. Today it is the "blue-gold" of clean water supplies that attracts the parasites on the Indians. The Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewel, is a billionaire, so I assume as trustee of Blackfeet water supplies that she would know the market value of the drinking quality water supplies, and she also has the authority to hold bids on the lease of Blackfeet water supplies for corporations to pay market value in the billions of dollars to an impoverished Indian people, as is her sworn duty in the federal-Indian trusteeship. The issue is breaking economic apartheid of border-whites over the Blackfeet Indians on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The reservation/county is simply a system of economic apartheid of border-whites sucking the economic lifeblood of the Indians operating under state law that is itself outlawed under the 1896 Agreement between the Blackfeet Indians and the United States Congress. The state-tribal water compact forced on the Indians by western states Congressmen is designed to subject treaty Indians to the jurisdiction of state courts-the Indians are prohibited from marketing their water supplies off-reservation, a violation of Constitutional Rights to participate in the Free-Market Economy of the world nations. Please help the Blackfeet Indians-protest to the Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel, who would never allow such market restrictions on her businesses, but then she is white and a market free business-person in the freest country in the world, and we, the Blackfeet Indians, are the 100 year Indian landowners victims of border-whites, and a merciless bureaucracy; the bureaucracy that she controls and administers. The Blackfeet people need cash and the world needs clean water, lets make a deal!  Bob Juneau Sr. a Blackfeet landowner with reserved water rights on the Blackfeet Reservation. Call me-406-493-0894, or E-Mail at blkftpatriot@yahoo.com

Monday, September 29, 2014

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.24

"The U.S. Government and Christian Churches plan for "civilizing by Christianizing" the Indians depended upon isolation from immoral white influences, but the priests found the Indian territory was entirely swept away; "The truth is the Indian was gone, swallowed up in the flood of settlement and no longer a factor in the life of the country." There was no further hope of isolating the Indians from degrading white influences, so the Jesuits focused their special ministry on the small Indian children whose religious conversion they felt required isolation from their savage/pagan parents. The era of Christian church-contract schools began on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, but the Jesuit priest's constant ridicule of the Blackfeet Sun religion undermined their religious conversion program. The Indian mission school children on the return home, in attempting to be re-accepted into the tribe and family were determined to be "Indian" like their relatives."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.24

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.24

"Little Plume was elected Head Chief and Generous Woman and White Calf were elected Subordinate Chiefs. There was little left with which to rebuild their tribal organization, and the government and church were determined to extinguish traditional tribal governance, culture, language, customs, religion, polygamy and paganism among the Indians as the goals of the civilizing process of the Indian Assimilation Policy. 
Christian churches assault the Sun Religion 
The Jesuit priests wrote "In the passage of time, the white man daily approached and pushed the Piegan Tribe, even up to the mountains." The next assault upon the Piegan Indians was the Sun religion, which the Jesuits labeled "a mixture of pantheism and animism" in which religion the Indians believed evil spirits were the source of illness and misfortune, and a belief in a "Great Spirit" that was present in all things. The Piegan religious beliefs were scorned by Jesuits and labeled as "a superstition." The Jesuits religious conversion program had in mind the general principle of "civilizing by Christianizing" the Indians, which Indian religious-conversion, vocational-education program curriculum became President Grant's Peace Policy, by which means the President "hoped to advance the metamorphosis of the savages."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.24

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.24

The U.S. Government and Christian Churches plan for "civilizing by Christianizing" the Indians depended upon isolation from immoral white influences, but the priests found the Indian territory was entirely swept away; "The truth is the Indian was gone, swallowed up in the flood of settlement and no longer a factor in the life of the country." There was no further hope of isolating the Indians from degrading white influences, so the Jesuits focused their special ministry on the small Indian children whose religious conversion they felt required isolation from their savage/pagan parents. The era of Christian church-contract schools began on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, but the Jesuit priest's constant ridicule of the Blackfeet Sun religion undermined their religious conversion program. The Indian mission school children on the return home, in attempting to be re-accepted into the tribe and family were determined to be "Indian" like their relatives."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.24

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.23

The tribal council opened with prayers and songs to the Divine Father, the Indians all kneeling. The meeting was called to order by Agent John S. Wood, who began by saying,"That before commencing on any great and good work, we have been taught by the word of the Great Spirit to invoke his blessings, and all we said and done would be heard and remembered by him, and we would be held accountable. If we did not intend living up to our pledges, we had better not make them. For many years you have been without unity, without a Head Chief, and without laws, roaming over the prairies in small, unfriendly, if not hostile bands, killing each other under the influence of whiskey. During the last year, you have killed one hundred and thirty one of your own people through whiskey. I want you to elect a Head Chief who does not drink whiskey and who will care for and control his people."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.23

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.23

"When Father Constantine Scollen first met the Blackfeet Indians in 1861 he saw them as a proud, haughty, numerous people, having a regular politico-religious organization [Blackfoot Confederacy-Sun Religion]. After 1870 however, the Blackfeet-Piegans had lost more than half their population and their social organization was in deep decay. Father Scollen observed, "They have been utterly demoralized as a people; the surviving relatives of the small pox epidemic of 1870 and the survivors of the massacred went more and more for the use of alcohol. They endeavored to drown their grief in the poisonous beverage, sold their robes and horses by the hundreds for it, and now had begun killing one another, so that in a short time they were divided into small parties, afraid to meet on the prairie. Formerly, they had been the most opulent Indians in the country, and now they walked without horses, clothed in rags." At a Council of the Blackfeet, Blood and Piegan Tribes of Indians, held at the Blackfeet Agency, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, days of April, A.D., 1875, an election was had and a code of laws adopted outlawing whiskey in Blackfoot Confederacy lands, and the killing of persons while under the influence of whiskey."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.23

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.22-23

Small-pox horrors" 
"The early part of the 1860's saw a devastating small pox outbreak among the various camps of the Blackfeet Tribe. By 1869 Chief Heavy Runner's band was suffering from a small pox outbreak at the time of Colonel Baker's massacre, and many of the Indians were dying from the disease when the soldiers fired into them, and burned them alive in their beds. Small Pox epidemics had resulted in destruction and demoralization of entire Indian tribes since the English colonists arrived in the Indian Country. William Bradford of Plymouth Colony conveyed some of the horrors of small pox in his description of the disease and its effects on the native populations: "A sorer disease cannot befall [the Indians] they fear it more than the plague. For usually they that have this disease have them in abundance, and for want of bedding and linen and other helps they fall into a lamentable condition as they lie on their hard mats, the pox breaking and mattering and running one into another, their skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a gore blood, most fearful to behold. And then being very sore, what with cold and other distempers, they die like rotten sheep."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.22-23