THANKSGIVING FOR 150 YEARS OF STARVATION OF INDIAN PEOPLE?

The "death sticks" was a body count of Blackfeet people starved to death during the famine of 1881-1887 requested by Congress to survey the progress of the campaign to force another land cession of 17 million acres of Blackfoot Confederacy lands held by the 1855 Treaty with the United States, a treaty of peace, friendship, and amity duly ratified by Congress. Chief White Calf, Principal Chief of the Blackfeet Tribe was aggrieved to see his people suffering and wanted to know why his people could not get more food promised by the treaty, and why the Indians in Canada receive seeds and rations to live on, and he wants to be treated as the tribes in Canada. United States Indian Agent Allen reported the conditions of the Blackfeet people in 1884, three years into the tribal famine, "The Indians offer themselves to work for food, and where ten are called for fifty will appear, but while there are many ways where the agent could employ them, he is unable to because they must be paid in rations and there are none to spare. The Indians try to plant. For example, a patch of ground was seen where they had cut the ground with an axe, and scratched the ground with their fingers in order to plant some potatoes. None of their ponies are strong enough to break the soil, and what seeds and potatoes were furnished, they immediately ate. Everything about them indicates their poverty. They have not a fur or skins for moccasins and there is nothing in their lodges except for the people themselves. The Chiefs are very desirous that some of them should be allowed to go to Washington to represent their hardships to the Great Father, but their applications to that effect has been denied by the Indian Office on the score there is no money to pay the expenses of their trip. At present there is an abundance of berries, but they will soon be gone, and there will be nothing but meat and flour. In May and June there were times they stripped the trees and ate the inner bark to keep their souls and bodies together. In a very short time the carpenter will be kept busy making burial boxes. The Indians vital forces are so weakened by the famine of the past three years that the winter now approaching will find them unable to endure its severity, and still more dreadful suffering will occur. The Piegans are slowly starving to death, but in order to convince the government that an unnatural and inhuman state of affairs exists here, it would seem necessary that these Indians should break out in open revolt and all die at once. The Texas cattlemen refuse to sell any beef to the agency and provoke the Indians to start a range war. The conduct of affairs here is exceedingly unpleasant and unless matters can be remedied there will probably be bloodshed. The dissatisfaction is constantly on the increase and unless something can be done to alleviate the suffering of these people the employees at the agency will be in danger of losing their lives. Their physical condition is that of a slowly starving people, all of the people being very gaunt and thin, and shockingly emaciated. Scrofula prevails to a great extent among them, aggravated by lack of nourishment and a large number are suffering from consumption. Their systems are so impoverished that very slight hurts develop into serious complications. Of the births and deaths nothing is known by the Department of the Interior who are totally ignorant of the numbers of Indians it pretends to care for and feed. Last month the agency carpenter built 17 coffins while doctor Gillette reported only 6 deaths. Many Indians are buried without coffins and sometimes two Indians are placed in one coffin. The Indians prefer to bury their own dead by tying them in trees or placing them in high hills and the ridges and hills around the agency are dotted with these ghastly objects." In 1881 Father Prando wrote, "The injustice of the white man is the cause of suffering among the Indians. The Blackfeet are sunk in want and misery and in my opinion, they will have trouble getting through the winter without dying of hunger." In 1884 he wrote, " There was so much talk and so much noise in the newspapers about the deplorable conditions of these poor creatures, but till now they received no help. And, this year the effects of the famine are making themselves felt so horribly and the savages are dying rapidly. Each day there is someone dead. Indeed, we can say two-thirds of the tribe are diseased now. What a pity it is to see little boys and girls, with their small faces pale and emaciated, with languid eyes, and at an age when they should be happy, experiencing sorrow and consumption." In the middle of winter the United States Treaty Commissioners arrived in Blackfoot Country, in forty degree below zero weather, stayed a week, and completed a land cession of 17,000,000 acres of Blackfeet Treaty Lands for $1.5 million to be paid in ten annual installments for the purchase of cattle, equipment, supplies, rations, and improvements to their cattle ranches. By 1893 the Blackfeet cattle ranchers had built a self-reliant cattle industry of 500 tribal brands, 25,000 cattle, shipping steers to Chicago Stockyards, building ranch homes, fences, barns, vegetable gardens, and cash for all needful things. By 1904 the Montana border-whites and Blackfeet Agent George Steel robbed the entire Blackfeet cattle herd to build up their herds off the reservation. It is a history of border-whites robbing the Indians in complicity with the United States Government. Today the final blow of permanent poverty is contained in the water compacts awarding the border-whites stolen property and water rights within the reservation boundaries. Psychologist Edwardo Duran wrote, "Most Indians deal with issues of injustice, conquest, dishonored treaties, land thefts, and a common thread that weaves across much of the pain and suffering found in Indian communities in the United States and much of the Western Hemisphere. The common thread image is the concept termed the "soul wound." He states, "If one accepts the terms soul, psyche, myth, dream, and culture as part of being in the world in their particular reality, then one can begin to understand the soul wound. The notion of soul wound is one which is at the core of so much of the suffering of the Indigenous peoples have undergone for centuries." Anthropologist Ruth Hill Useem stated regarding the Indian people's relation with the American Government; (1) That over the years the Indian people can expect no consistency in policies regarding him; (2) That the interests of the dominant society will take precedence over the interests of Indians in any policy decision; (3) That the Indian can do little to affect decisions concerning Indians; (4) That whatever the policy enacted the Indian will be told that such policy is in his best interest; (5) That the stated goals of a policy may be and usually are quite different from the consequences with the goals being more favorable to the Indians than the consequences." Robert J. Hamilton, the great Blackfoot lawyer and interpreter for Blackfeet Chiefs testified before Congress; "In view of the principles enunciated and adopted by your highest judicial tribunals, the fact can not be controverted or questioned that the Blackfeet Indians have been unconstitutionally and unconscionably deprived of their vested rights under the 1855 Treaty by Executive Orders and acts of Congress of 1873 and 1874, and that the Government of the United States is answerable therefor. The property of these people has, as a matter of fact, been confiscated by the United States and diverted to purposes for which there is no warrant under the Constitution, and which upon grounds of good faith and fair dealing can not be defended. Horatio Seymour, a great apostle of democracy, in regard to the treatment of Indians, once said, "Every human being born upon our continent, or who comes here from any quarter of the world, whether savage or civilized, can go to our courts for protection except those who belong to the tribes who once owned this country. The cannibals from the islands of the Pacific, the worst criminals from Europe, Asia, Africa, can appeal to the laws and courts for their rights of person and property, all save but our native Indians, who, above all, should be protected from Wrong." Robert Hamilton testified to Congress that "We strongly protest the opening of any part of our reservation because we know it would be a mistake, therefore we ask the Blackfeet be permitted to hold our lands intact." Chairman Cohen of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs stated in 1983, " On the one hand the Indian claims were originally founded in a breach of contract and a title claim, but the fact that the state has been in wrongful possession of Indian lands for the past 112 years in a trespass against the Indian's interest and therefore lies in tort rather than contract, and is not precluded by the statute of limitations. There are countless Indian people and Indian tribes whose potential claims have not yet been given a fair opportunity to be reviewed in terms of their validity. The remaining question that both Congress and the Executive Branch must face is whether there is continuing exposure to the United States Government in the unresolved Indian claims and violations of tribal sovereignty and the loss of Indian property." The white ranchers are living our lives on our reservations on white-apartheid territories called "reservation/counties" enacted by state legislatures to provide void patent-in-fee titles to border-whites sanctioned by the secretary of the Interior and General Land Office of the United States in approving the fee patents of Indian property. President Reagan rejected two centuries of Indian treaty-making begun with President George Washington and founder Thomas Jefferson. That is why I have spent 35 years fighting for my great-grandmothers lands stolen by white men and the 17,000 individual Indian landowners cited in the Class Action Suit filed in the Covelo Indian Community v. James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, Defendant, who lost in federal court. The Reagan dictatorship stonewalled the Indian claims, still unresolved, but soon to end in the water compact settlements. None of the 17,000 Indian landowners heirs were allowed to testify or to object to the water compacts. The Bureau of Indian Affairs that starved the Indians has completed the genocides by approving neocolonialism and white apartheid on Indian reservations. I no longer believe justice is available for Indians in the United States. That is why I need a sponsor to the United Nations Genocide Convention and to petition the World Criminal Court for justice outside of the United States. The State of Montana is in an illegal trespass and possession of Blackfeet property since 1919. I have all of the evidence needed to win if I can find a lawyer for billions in torts and  claims for 17,000 individual Indian land claims to 100 million acres of stolen Indian property.
   Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

AMERICAN APARTHEID IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

The United Nations Security Council unanimously accepted that "Apartheid is a crime against the conscience and dignity of mankind," refers to genocide and institutionalized discrimination on racial, ethnic, or religious grounds. In South Africa President DeClerk apologized for apartheid after the rebellion of Africans stating, "Apartheid was wrong. I apologize to the millions of South Africans who suffered the unending disruption of forced removals in respect to their homes, businesses, and land and prevented from exercising their full democratic rights in the land of their birth." But, the whites and corporations were allowed to keep their ill gotten gains produced from the stolen lands of the victims and the Africans are in an economic depression once again.
        In the United States there are exclusive white territories planted on Indian reservations called "reservation/counties" enacted by state legislatures to give the border-whites a void title called patent-in-fees on stolen Indian land allotments within reservation boundaries without any consent of the Indians or the prior approval of Congress as required by treaties. The United States Government is complicit in the massive unresolved land frauds of 17,000 individual Indian land allotments covering 100 million acres. The Organic Acts of states all contain "disclaimers" any right or title to any Indian land or jurisdiction over any treaty Indians. Public Law 96-217, section 2 was passed by Congress in 1982 to provide justice for a century of unresolved Indian land claims, but President Reagan refused to follow the rule of law and cancelled the Indian claims.
        South African and Soviet Union leaders taunted President Reagan by stating the United States maintained white apartheid territories on Indian reservations. Imagine that! In the past 35 years I have used my efforts to bring a measure of justice for both of my great-grandmothers robbed by the border-whites on the Blackfeet Reservation who established Glacier and Pondera Counties on stolen Blackfeet lands. I found records of government complicity in the forced fee patents claims and evidence of genocides of hundreds of Blackfeet landowners frozen in the agency jail when they refused to sign the forced patents to sell their lands. while the county officials and whites filed liens on the Indian lands in county courts where the Indians could not defend their property. People think the Indians were backward as President Reagan called Indians in Moscow when Russian students asked about his ill treatment of Indians, but he did not mention the pending Indian land claims. Nobody in the world is fooled by the empty rhetoric of the United States, but who is going to confront the bully of the world. There are treaty protests of the Blackfeet Indians to Congress beginning in 1870 when the Indian women and children were massacred by the United States army instigated by lies of Montana border-whites to force Indian land cessions. We can back up no further with our backs to the Rocky Mountains and Canada on the north, Montana on the south and east, where do we go from here. The United States is in violation of the United Nations Security Council Genocide Convention and the International Criminal Court but we, the Indian victims, cannot reach the United Nations Justice. There are 17,000 original forced patents cases robbing 100 million acres of Indian land by the border-whites and their white apartheid territories called "reservation/counties" on Indian reservations. Congress passed legislation forcing Indian tribes into state courts to settle water rights, and to extinguish all past, present, and future Indian claims, forever in the water compacts. In this way apartheid will be a permanent parasite on the Indians, forever. I welcome any legal assistance to prepare a human rights case to present to the United Nations Genocide Court and the International Criminal Court to prosecute the border-whites and states and corporations who got away with genocide in America. I have the documented evidence, I need the legal help to proceed to international courts since we won in federal courts and in Congress but Reagan struck us down and the water compacts extinguish all of our century old claims. Please read, THE SACRED BUFFALO VISION, available on Amazon.Com a history of genocide of the Blackfeet people. Bob Juneau Sr.

BLACKFEET CHIEF 'BLACKMAILED' TO SUPPRESS LAND CLAIMS

It is true that Blackfeet Chief Earl Old Person is guilty of incest and rape of his sisters child and has two children by her. Blackfeet traditional leaders investigated the charges and she verified it is true that he began raping her while her mother was laying in her casket at a wake in Starr School. I was told by his brother and nephew that during the wake of Earl's sister, that they had to drag Earl off of the child in the next room where his sister lay in her casket, and that Earl came back later that night and raped the child again. Chairman Old Person was known to use his powers as chairman of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to rape impoverished Indian women who came to the tribal office for help in paying electric bills or to purchase food for their children. Earl would force them into sex in order to receive cash assistance from the tribal hardship program. He traveled the nation with his concubines and layed up in Washington D.C. with prostitutes instead of doing tribal business. His incest and rape are known to federal and state law enforcement officials and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials who use him to suppress our land claims. The Cobell Case listed Earl Old Person as a co-plaintiff until they found out he was passing confidential information to his handlers at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior, who are defendants in robbing $3.5 billion from Indian Money Accounts. The Blackfeet Forced Fee Patents cases are part of a nationwide system of white-apartheid on Indian reservations whereby 17,000 individual Indian landowners were robbed by white men and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials. President Carter sent his Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs to testify under oath to Congress that the United States Government was guilty of complicity in the massive forced patents cases covering 100 million acres of Indian land robbed by states and real estate sharks. President Reagan tossed the 17,000 individual Indian land claims in the trash can and stonewalled efforts by Congress to provide justice for the heirs of original Indian landowners robbed by the government. Congress passed Public Law 96-217, Section 2, to provide justice for the 17,000 Indian landowners after a century of injustice, but President Reagan would not comply with the law and the Indian claims remain unresolved today. The Blackfeet Water Compact will "extinguish" all past, present, and future Blackfeet Indian land claims, forever. Chairman Old Person approved the Blackfeet Water Compact which is in Congress right now.  There is no doubt that federal officials have used Chief Old Person to suppress our forced patent claims since they will be defendants in the claims. I talked with the United States Attorney, who told me that, yes, they knew all about the forced patents claims, but had no plans to prosecute the claims despite Public Law 96-217, Section 2, a federal law that orders the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior to either litigate the Indian claims or to prepare legislative proposals to send to Congress to restore stolen Indian property with just compensation to the heirs of original Indian allottees robbed by the United States Government. President Reagan was taunted by South African apartheid government leaders and Communist Russian leaders for maintaining white-apartheid on Indian reservations in the United States. They were and are correct! The stolen Indian land allotments are now called "reservation/counties" by state legislatures to cover up the origins of massive Indian land frauds, and that is how the white man got on Indian reservations. Is this America and Christian values? President Obama has never been requested by Chairman Old Person to restore our stolen lands. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Secretary of the Interior or the United States Attorney General have not requested President Obama to litigate the 17,000 Indian land claims to 100 million acres stolen on Indian reservations across the United States creating white-apartheid land bases on sovereign Indian land. We live in poverty on our own reservations while white ranchers profit from stolen Indian lands. I have written a Blackfeet history of the land frauds, "The Sacred Buffalo Vision" available on Amazon.Com. but very few sales have resulted nor has the media been interested in exposing white-apartheid on Indian reservations in the United States. The world needs to know this sordid history.
Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

$350,000 TRIBAL COUNCIL "CULTURE FUND" UP FOR GRABS

Since the defeat of Earl Old Person on the tribal council his use of the $350,000 culture fund for his personal uses is up for grabs; it was set aside originally for Blackfeet traditional crafts people to organize the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative to sell crafts to Glacier Park tourists. Blackfeet women were the founders of the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative. Ethel B. Arnett, Director of the Works Progress Administration wrote in 1937, "The movement began when a small group of Indian women on the Two Medicine River-Mary Little Bull, Mary Little Plume, Angeline Williamson, Cecile Horn, Nellie Buel, Cecile Tailfeathers, Rose Big Beaver, Margaret Middle Calf, and Nora Spanish were encouraged by Mrs. Jessie Schultz, local welfare official, to make costumes to be sold at the Sun Ceremony encampment. Their experiment turned out well and three other women in Browning-Louise Berry Child, Gertrude No Chief, and Annie Calf Looking were pioneers in the Blackfeet crafts movement that organized local crafts groups, and paved the way for the formation of the Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative Society in April, 1937 to encourage Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Culture and Traditions. The $350,000 Blackfeet Culture Fund controlled by the tribal council was supposed to fund self-help efforts of traditional communities to make a living on the sale of crafts to Glacier Park tourists. Mrs. Jessie Donaldson Schultz wrote, "The Indian women come to work laughing always, always cheerful, because they were doing something they could do well. The thought kept coming to my mind, just give them a chance. They can do anything if they have a chance to use the skills they know!" I brought the idea of building a culture center in Browning and St. Mary many times to Chairman Old Person and showed him the statistics of over a million Glacier Park tourists passing through Browning but only stopping at Bob Scrivers Museum, and the Museum of the Plains Indian. Earl paid Bob Scriver $68,000 to do sculptures that should have been done by Blackfeet traditionals. Bob Scriver was a white supremacist who sold sacred bundles to a Canadian museum for over $2,000,000 and wrote racist letters about the "dirty Blackfeet" that are in the Montana Historical Society in Helena. Bob Scriver led the Indian Days Parade for many years at the request of Chief Old Person and was holding sacred bundle openings for his rich friends back east in his teepee and wearing his coonskin cap taught by Chief Old Person. Earl Old Person has sold many sacred bundles for big money he got from museums across the United States and the rest are stored at his ranch at Starr School. Surveys of Glacier Park tourists show they want to experience Blackfeet culture and purchase Blackfeet crafts. There is an opportunity to showcase Blackfeet culture with dance exhibitions if we build a culture center in Browning and St. Mary. There is room across the highway from the hotel/casino to build the culture center where 1,355,000 tourists drive by in July and August, and in St. Mary Village where 957,000 tourists enter the reservation in St. Mary Village. The Old Person era is over and a new era is possible if the traditional people in Starr School, Heart Butte, and Moccasin Flat in Browning band together to do what our ancestors accomplished in 1937, to build a Blackfeet Crafts Cooperative Culture Center. It is time! Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.    

BLACKFEET CRAFTS WORKERS SAVE THE BLACKFEET CHILDREN

In 1934 only 138 Blackfeet families were self-supporting and 747 families had to be assisted through relief and distribution of rations while a whooping cough epidemic and measles killed many children. Jessie Donaldson Schultz, wife of James Willard Schultz, who had remarried after his Blackfoot wife Natahki  passed away. Jessie Schultz was an employee of the Civil Works Administration as a social worker assigned to the Blackfeet Reservation. She reported, "My first visit was to a family of twelve at Starr School. Several of the children were ill and two of the babies had died. So I entered that home with beautiful parents, fine people who had just lost two children. That was the beginning of my welfare work on the Blackfeet Reservation. These people did not want to accept relief. They were so willing to work, to do something they could do to make an income. This was the beginning of our crafts program." The Blackfeet Indians formed a cooperative crafts association, and a board of directors who would examine the craft work to test it for authenticity, perfectly made according to the Blackfoot traditions. When their work was accepted , the women were paid by checks. The crafts were done with native materials-natural dyestuffs, quill work, leather work, bead work, sculpting in wood carving, dolls, and sweet grass sold to tourists at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning and a log building at St. Mary. They set up a little village of teepees with perfect replicas of old time lodges and charged tourists to go through the lodges and see how the Indians lived in the old way." The Blackfeet Indians involved in making a success of the Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Association are Mary Little Bull, Agnes Chief All Over, Judith Sanderville, Leona Sanderville, Maggie Shoo Cat, Julia Iron Pipe, Delores Calf Tail, Millie Hall, Maggie Marceau, Angeline Williamson, Rosie Grant, Nellie Buel, Angeline Wells, Mary Little Plume, Annie Potts, Annie Calf Looking, Maggie Found A Gun, Annie Flat Tail, Rosie Big Beaver, Cecile Tail Feathers,  Louise Berry Child, Nora Spanish, Suzie Red Horn, Albert Racine, Isabell McKay, Stanley Croft, Victor Pepion, Insimaki Yellow Kidney, Cecile Black Boy. I got statistics from Glacier Park tourists that showed 1.355,000 tourists drove past the tribal hotel and casino and did not stop, and 897,000 tourists drove over Logan Pass to enter the reservation at St. Mary Village and spent $85,000,000 in June, July and August. Our ancestors showed us the way to become self-supporting by selling crafts and entertaining tourists! Imagine if we banded together and built Blackfeet Culture Center in Browning and a Culture Center at St. Mary Village, we could end tribal poverty if we "own" the enterprise through the Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Cooperative originated by the above named Blackfeet traditional people. If not we will be corporate slaves of Sayeh or a white owned tourist enterprise dancing for minimum wages like the tribal council did a few years ago. It was a success until the greedy council got their hands in it. I can help to write grants and do the research but only the traditional Blackfeet can lead this effort. I live in Missoula so I have access to a loan program that will give us a loan to do a business plan to get a small business loan to build the culture center. Where is Ed Spotted Eagle? Call me and I will help. (406) 493-0894. Bob Juneau Sr.

HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION CAUSED BY TRIBAL POVERTY

I live in Missoula, a University town, where it seems everyone is happy and content, that is until the poverty statistics revealed the truth of a bad economy. Missoula has the highest suicide rate in Montana, and there are over 500 homeless school children in Missoula Public Schools, and the Missoula food bank is overwhelmed with poor white people who cannot feed their families. I left Browning because I could not get a job because I would not stop investigating the land frauds and tribal chairman Old Person banished me from tribal government employment. I soon became homeless in Browning and I had a young son to care for so I had to leave the reservation. The forced patent claims was our last chance to get our stolen land back with $300 million in compensation for the heirs of the original Blackfeet allottees robbed by white men in Glacier County. That is how the white man got on the reservation by robbing our relatives and we proved it. The water compact signed by chairman Old Person awards the stolen Blackfeet lands to white men and "extinguishes" all past, present, and future Blackfeet claims, FOREVER! The tribal council will receive $15 million per year for 10 years under the water compact from the state of Montana. The Salish-Kootenai tribes get $2.5 billion dollars, Kerr Dam, one half of Flathead Lake, and water for their ranchers and farmers, FOREVER! The Salish-Kootenai tribes had water attorneys, hydrologists, biologists, and historians who proved the tribes owned the water and had been robbed by the state of Montana. The Montana legislators and tribal chairman were laughing on state t.v. at the "one man water department" of the Blackfeet Tribe and their old, broke down NARF attorney, who screamed at the Blackfeet landowners in the water compact meeting-"you don't own any water!" while the tribal council kicked me out of the meeting for bringing up the land frauds. There is no plan to develop Blackfeet cattle ranchers or to help trust landowners to improve their family lands in the water compact. Our children are suffering like the homeless white children in Missoula, but the white children do not own 1.3 million acres like the Blackfeet children do. Chairman Old Person had a $350,000 culture fund to spend on his concubines while our children had no money to spend at Indian Days or to build a tribal culture center where traditional people could enjoy tribal culture and our youth could play basketball in a gym owned by the Blackfeet Tribe. An old lady told Old Person, "you made bums out of all of us" and she would not go into his tribal office because he raped too many young girls on that conference table for a tribal check to pay their electric bill or buy food for their hungry children. The 1896 Agreement banished the white ranchers from the reservation and the tribal council brought them back under the lease and sub-lease policy that leaves out the Blackfeet ranchers to whom the reservation belongs. The Blackfeet cattle ranchers brought the tribe out of a tribal famine caused by white ranchers killing off the buffalo for their cattle herds to graze. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was adopted by the Blackfeet people to reserve tribal grazing lands for Blackfeet ranchers and to market steers to Chicago Stockyards from the herd of 25,000 Blackfeet cattle. today the tribal council allows white ranchers to graze on reserved grazing lands and it is the white ranchers who market 10,000 head of steers fattened on Blackfeet grazing lands. The reservation can graze 55,000 head of cattle and if the "citizenship of cattle" were Blackfeet owned we would be rich overnight by capturing the $67,000,000 profits that white men get each year they graze their "white cattle" on reservation lands, a treaty violation. Hunger and malnutrition will continue until we wise up and organize a Blackfeet cattle ranchers association and Blackfeet landowners association as authorized by the 1896 Agreement and 1934 Indian reorganization Act. I will be over to Browning in November to meet with landowners and ranchers to start the process of getting on our feet by our own efforts by cutting out the white ranchers and their Blackfeet middlemen from robbing our grass and profits that belong to the Blackfeet Indians. Bob Juneau Sr. Blackfeet patriot.

GLACIER PARK TOURIST MARKETS PASS BY BLACKFEET TRADITIONAL PEOPLE

The Blackfeet Arts & Crafts Association was organized during the great depression in 1933 designed to produce traditional Blackfeet crafts to sell to Glacier Park tourists, and the Museum of the Plains Indian was built in Browning to provide a place for traditional Blackfeet to sell their crafts in the gift shop and another gift shop at St. Mary Village. 1.3 million tourists passed by the tribal casino last summer and 957,000 tourists came over Logan Pass to enter the reservation at St. Mary Village and spent $85,000,000 for hotel rooms, meals, gas, and souvenirs. A Glacier Park exit survey of tourists showed their only complaints were they did not get to experience Blackfeet culture in their visit. I would suggest the traditional Blackfeet to build a Blackfeet Culture Center At St. Mary Village to capture the millions of dollars tourists want to spend on witnessing Blackfeet culture and purchase genuine Blackfeet crafts. The market is huge! Let us say we got $10 per tourist to pay to watch a cultural show at the Blackfeet Culture Center and 1,000,000 tourists purchased tickets amounting to $10,000,000 for the traditional Blackfeet dancers and crafts people! As soon as Sayeh corporation hears of this they will try to take it away from the traditional people and pay the dancers minimum wage and pocket millions of dollars for tribal council crooks. The Blackfeet Bank loaned $600,000 to the white people in Browning who now dominate the Blackfeet crafts sales, and East Glacier and St. Mary dominate the Glacier Park tourism markets on the reservation. The water compact will bring $150,000,000 to the tribal council, but do you think they will help Blackfeet traditional people to capture their dreams of self-sufficiency without becoming white people? Federal laws protect the designs and artwork of traditional people and the tribal council and white people violate these laws.

Sayeh corporation will enslave traditional people and walk off with the millions of dollars when it is the traditional culture the tourists will pay to see. Joe McKay has been Indian dancing for years at the St. Mary visitors center for tourists, but did he invite traditional Blackfeet? Ed Spotted Eagle has promoted the culture center but the tribal council will not listen until we organize and demand a  share of the water compact money. Call me at (406) 493-0894 and I will help you, I have the research and information.

Bob Juneau Sr.