BLACKFEET RANCHERS & LANDOWNERS REMAIN POOR UNDER WATER COMPACT SETTLEMENT

In the past century the Park Saddle Horse Company owned by James J. Hill owner of the Great Northern Railway leased the entire St. Mary Valley for ten cents an acre ruining hundreds of Blackfeet cattle ranchers operations grazing reserved tribal lands in the 1896 Agreement. The Portland Land & Cattle Company owned by the meat trust Swift & Armor conspired with agency trader Joe Sherburne and county attorney to forge hundreds of Blackfeet allotted land titles in complicity with federal agency Indian Bureau officers approved by the Secretary of the Interior of Indian land titles transferred to white men in county courts by void patent-in-fee titles which now make up the land base of Glacier and Pondera counties within reservation boundaries. These are the allotted land claims that will be extinguished, forever, if the Blackfeet vote to approve the water compact in April, 2017. There is no money in the compact to "make whole" Blackfeet heirs to original allottees robbed by the BIA and white men or to re-establish the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry. It is a gross insult to our ancestors murdered by the hundreds by Joe Sherburne and the Hills et al for their land. In 1979 the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs testified to Congress that the United States Government would have to sue itself on behalf of the Indian wards who they robbed, a public spectacle of government sponsored murders of Blackfeet landowners. The tribal council, Indian crooks, corporations, companies and the United States are defendants in the forced patents cases, so that is why the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, federal and state governments are so in a hurry to extinguish the allotted claims of the Blackfeet landowners and cattle ranchers. The Blackfeet ranchers who work their own land and whose income comes from selling cattle are rare because they are squeezed out by the BIA and tribal council lease policy of third-party Blackfeet who sub-lease to white ranchers who profit $67,000,000 while the Blackfeet cannot stay in business. Blackfeet trust landowners lands are leased for $5 per acre to third-party leasers who sub-lease to white ranchers who get the profit from our reserved grazing lands. Think of yourself! What do you get out of the water compact? Did any tribal or BIA official ever ask you what you want out of your land and water resources? They are there to serve your interests not the white man's interests. I think we should vote no on the water compact and elect a tribal council that will follow the treaty and protect our interests instead of the white man. I propose a payout of $50,000,000 per capita payment, a $50,000,000 payout to Blackfeet cattle ranchers and a $50,000,000 payout to allotted landowners to improve their trust lands and build a business enterprise and cooperative to capture the profits for ourselves. We need a meat-packing plant and food processing manufacturing to sell grass-fed, free-range beef products to global markets, as well as bottled water, and food processing plants to create jobs for tribal members on the reservation. Let us get rich instead of the white man on our own reservation! The tribal council is looking to get rich and piss away our money, that is their history, it is true. I have zero faith in their ability to carry out any type of economic program that they do not end up robbing and bankrupt the tribe. I think this is our last chance to get back on our feet, off our knees to the council and white man, after all it is we, the people, who own the reservation by the allotment. Go to the meetings and ask the tribal council who will help the Indian landowners and poor to develop?Bob Juneau Sr. There is no plan in the water compact to help the cattle ranchers or landowners.     

THE FAULT OF TRIBAL POVERTY LIES WITH TRIBAL COUNCIL AND WHITE MEN

In 1934 the Blackfeet Chiefs met with Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier at the Indian Congress to discuss adopting a tribal constitution and charter. The commissioner stressed the bill in Congress, Wheeler-Howard Act intent was "To cut out the middleman's profits" meaning the white ranchers leasing tribal and allotted lands through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribal constitution and charter mandate was to establish a Blackfeet cattle ranchers association and an arts & crafts association for traditional Blackfeet to sell to tourists in Glacier Park. The first Blackfeet Tribal Business Council was elected in 1936 with 13 members and ten of the council members had incomes over $100,000 while chairman Wright Hagerty had an income over $500,000 in his first term of office by leasing tribal oil rights to Louis Hill owner of the Great Northern Railway. That is $1.5 million to tribal council members under the "Preference Clause" of the Blackfeet Constitution in 1936 and it has gotten worse until today we have a communist style tribal council that has made us poor and oppressed. Did Joe McKay advocate extinguishing the preference clause for elected tribal council members in his constitutional reform, or offer to return the McKay 100 year lease of the west end of Browning that still has 60 years to run or council members advocate ending sub-leases to white men of tribal grazing and farm lands as outlawed in the Wheeler-Howard Act? What will these politicians do with $470 million of water compact money? There is nothing in the water compact for traditional Blackfeet or cattle ranchers or to fund the credit program to loan money to individual business owners. All you see in their leaflet is tribal council initiatives and nothing for allotted landowners or traditional business enterprises. It is a plan to reduce us all to tribal serfs as we are today. The tribal charters were supposed to be organized for tribal communities and districts for self-government, and establish credit unions for tribal districts. The tribal council members feared Blackfeet cattle ranchers association and arts & crafts association would put tribal political families out of business exploiting tribal money. Instead of developing individual cattle ranching operations Wright Hagerty developed a million dollar ranch for himself and eight tribal council members owned all the cattle in partners with white ranchers. Today, we have a communistic style tribal council that owns all tribal enterprises and reduces tribal members to minimum wage slaves of Sayeh Corporation. The implied threat in the leaflet mailed to tribal members is that the tribe will lose $470 million if the water compact is rejected by tribal voters in April, 2017. The Blackfeet claim losses are $1.6 billion dollars for stolen allotted lands and a billion dollar loss of tribal oil rights due to tribal council embezzlements with oil companies. The water compact extinguishes all past, present, and future Blackfeet claims, forever! How do they know there will not be embezzlements in the future? We have had nothing but stolen tribal property by white men in complicity with the tribal council for 81 years now. We are giving up our treaty rights and trust property to a water board made of state, federal, and tribal council representatives.  Where is the Blackfeet cattle ranchers and traditional crafts associations representatives? I do not want the tribal council to have authority over my allotted lands or water rights! The Secretary of the Interior is vested by Congress to carry out our treaty rights and water rights, and if we go to state court the Attorney General and Senate Indian Affairs Committee will fulfill our treaty rights. That is the law! Any unlawful decision made in state court will be appealed to federal court where treaty rights are superior to state laws. That is our Treaty rights! Vote no on the tribal water compact, please! trust landowners know the fault of tribal poverty lies in the council.
Bob Juneau Sr. let us meet and discuss our allotted landowners issues before we vote on the compact.

"NEGRO" TROOPS EMANCIPATED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN DECIDED THE CIVIL WAR

Americans are not taught the true history of the United States for political reasons which conflict with reality. Historian George Bancroft wrote in June, 1865 immediately after President Lincoln was murdered by confederates, " The measure by which Abraham Lincoln takes his place, not in American history only, but in universal history, is his Proclamation of January 1, 1863, emancipating all slaves within the insurgent states. It was indeed a military necessity, and it decided the result of the war. It took from the public enemy one or two million bondmen and placed between one and two hundred thousand brave and gallant troops in arms on the side of the Union. A great deal has been said in time past of the wonderful results of the toil of the enslaved Negro in the creation of wealth by the culture of cotton; and now it is in part to the aid of the Negro in freedom that the country owes its success in its movement of regeneration-that the world of mankind owes the continuance of the United States as the example of a Republic. The death of President Lincoln sets the seal to that Proclamation, which must be maintained. It is the only rod that can safely carry off the thunderbolt. He came to it perhaps reluctantly; he was brought to adopt it, as it were, against his will, but compelled by inevitable necessity. He disclaimed all praise for the act, saying reverently, after it had succeeded, "The nation's condition God alone can claim." And what a futurity it opened before the country when its institutions became homogenous! From all civilized world the nations will send hosts to share the wealth and glory of this people. It will receive all good ideas from abroad; and its great principles of personal equality and freedom: freedom of conscience and mind, freedom of speech and action, freedom of government through ever renewed common consent, will undulate through the world like rays of light and heat from the sun. With one wing touching the waters of the Atlantic and the other the Pacific, it will grow into a greatness of which the past has no parallel and there can be no spot in Europe or in Asia so remote or so secluded as to shut out its influence. He was one of the mass of the people; he represented them, because he was one of them; and the mass of the people, the class that lives and thrives by self-imposed labor, felt that the work, which was to be done was a work of their own: The assertion of equality against the pride of oligarchy, of free labor against the lordship over slaves, of the great industrial people against all the expiring aristocracies of which any remnants had tided down from the Middle Ages. As he went along through his difficult journey, sounding his way, he held fast by the hand of the people, he committed faults, but the people were resolutely generous, magnanimous, and forgiving; and he in his turn was willing to take instructions from their wisdom." In my opinion, the American voters have been duped by what President Lincoln called "Money Power" and he feared that corporations would use their money power to use the government to inflame race hatred and divide the country. We have our first corporate presidency and corporate rule over the people in a modern day attempt to economically enslave all Americans. It will be a tough term of office for the poor and minority but we have overcome enslavement of African Americans and Indian massacres and now, because of the Republican Doctrine of corporate rule, the American people are fast becoming the laughingstock of the world under rule of oligarchs. I miss President Obama, he was the champion of the people, and he withstood the institutional racism of Republican controlled Congress for our sakes. No people or government are immune from the rule of oligarchs, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation we have been exploited by corporations and racist border-whites. The federal and state government is complicit in the massive Indian land claims on Indian reservations across the United States for the economic benefit of corporations. The visions of spiritual leaders call the current situation a contest between good and evil. Which side wins this war?Bob Juneau Sr.    

DO THE BLACKFEET VOTERS "TRUST" THE TRIBAL COUNCIL WITH $420,000,000

Promises made are promises broken by tribal politicians. Even the corrupt Bureau of Indian Affairs had reservations about the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council "evasion" of corporate responsibilities under the tribal constitution. In 1950 the Secretary of the Interior and Solicitor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Area Office, and Agency Superintendent met to discuss two specific questions: (1) what action can be taken by federal officials or by members of the Blackfeet Tribe to require conformity with the provisions of the Tribal Constitution and Charter? (2) what responsibility rests on the Secretary of the Interior and his representatives [BIA] to protect tribal and individual trust property against the actions of irresponsible [corrupt] tribal council members? In the first question tribal members would need convincing evidence that tribal council members had acted wrongfully, or beyond their authority in violation of specific constitution or charter provisions. Of course, tribal members have no idea of what the tribal council is doing with tribal money except for the Forensic Audit which revealed corruption throughout tribal government, and it was tossed in the trash can by the guilty tribal council members. In the second question the Solicitor ruled the trust responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior has not been diminished by adoption of the tribal constitution and charter. The Secretary of the Interior can require that all revenue from tribal sources be deposited to the credit of the Blackfeet Tribe in the United States Treasury, and thereby bring under control of Congress and the Secretary of the Interior the use of tribal funds. If we vote to accept the water compact settlement the supervisory powers of the trust responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior and Congress will be terminated. Until these supervisory powers are terminated, they remain in the Secretary and must be exercised by his office and Congressional Oversight. Blackfeet allottee trust lands water rights will be transferred to a Water Board made of tribal, federal and state officials under the water compact which means the tribal council controls all of tribal and allotted water rights, and all allotted land claims are extinguished, "forever." Do any of us have the money to pay a water attorney to defend our allotted lands against the claims of white men or the tribal council taking our water rights? The BIA report on tribal council management of tribal land and resources: "The record is discouraging at many points and unless corrective actions are taken at once the assets of the Blackfeet Tribe may be seriously depleted. Successive tribal councils have been progressively irresponsible as tribal council members have grown familiar with the technical provisions of the constitution and charter and have learned how to evade the duties imposed upon them as tribal officials." The agency, area office, central office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Secretary of the Interior failed to obtain corrective action in the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to act in accordance with the Blackfeet Constitution and Charter. The water compact settlement gives the tribal council authority to administer our allotted water rights and tribal water rights and manage all of the $420,000,000 at the tribal office!! The Cobell Case caused a reorganization of trust management of tribal and individual trust money under the United States Treasury Department. I would suggest that we vote no on the water compact until such time as our allotted land claims are resolved and our stolen lands are returned to us with $300,000,000 in just compensation, and that our $420,000,000 is secured in the Treasury Department so that tribal council thieves can be charged in federal court for theft of tribal and individual property and money. Section 9 of the tribal charter provides that "The officers of the tribal council shall maintain accurate and complete public accounts of the financial affairs of the Tribe, and shall furnish an annual balance sheet and report of financial affairs of the Tribe to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The tribal treasurer shall keep accounts of all receipts and disbursements  and shall make written reports to the Tribal Council at every regular and special meetings." The Bureau of Indian Affairs recommended "If necessary the United States Attorney should be called for assistance." The political organization of the tribe prevents any meaningful prosecution of tribal council criminals in tribal court and what tribal judge will lock up the "President of the Blackfeet Tribe" since we will only be tribal "citizens" instead of tribal members with special treaty rights to complain to Congress? I can see the robbery of $420,000,000 by the tribal council and we will be poor, "forever." The water compact helps only tribal political families and white men. It is our decision whether to accept another century of abuse by the tribal council and white men. My recommendation is to hold tribal meetings to discuss this water compact and to put our money in the Treasury of the United States to control the spending of the tribal council; whereas we would vote on every tribal council expenditure of our water compact money in public not in the secret meetings of the tribal council. We are Blackfeet Treaty Indians and our tribal culture is to make decisions by the whole tribe, that is tribal democracy far superior to the abuse of American "citizens" by the rich one percent Americans. Let us meet and eat together like Blackfeet Indians. Bob Juneau Sr. a Blackfeet patriot

"SLOW-DEATH MEASURES" GENOCIDE OF INDIANS CONTINUES IN 2017

The sovereign Blackfeet Indian Reservation is occupied for over a century by "border-whites" in a white-apartheid territory created by the Montana Legislature in 1919 called a "reservation/county" for which there is no warrant under the constitution. Glacier and Pondera counties land base lies on stolen Blackfeet land allotments held under a treaty with the United States dating to 1855, and in the treaty the Congress and President promise to protect the Blackfeet Indians from "depredations committed by white men living in or crossing their territory, may commit." Instead of protecting the Indians, the United States is complicit in land frauds by issuing forged land titles of individual Indian allotments which Indian lands were stolen by border-whites in state courts. On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation border-whites generate $142 million in revenues annually from sales of livestock and crops on the void patent-in-fee lands robbed from the Blackfeet landowners. As a result of the century-old land frauds the Indians live in squalid third-world conditions in tribal housing slums. The remainder of Blackfeet allottees own one-million acres and live in poverty because the border-whites and federal trustee Secretary of the Interior mismanage the allotted lands to make them "unusable" for the Indian landowners. These are valuable grazing and farm lands that form the treaty lands that are supposed to be the "exclusive use and occupancy of Blackfeet Indians" according to the 1896 Agreement with the United States. These are the "facts" of white-apartheid territory in the United States of America. In fact, there are 17,000 unresolved individual Indian land claims on Indian reservations across the United States to 100 million acres of stolen Indian lands converted to "reservation/county" void patent-in-fee jurisdiction by the United States Government. This is the "Indian Problem" deemed unsolvable for over a century because the United States Government cannot bring itself to resolve the Indian land claims because it would mean removal of white men from Indian reservations. But, the whites would not suffer the century of torture inflicted upon the Indians because Congress has a fund to pay market value to the void patent-in-fee border-whites prior to removal to state reservations. Slow-Death Measures genocide is defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention as depriving a targeted group of the rights and privileges available to other inhabitants of the territory concerned, and looting of property that belongs to another, thus inflicting slow-death in poverty and diseases. The Blackfeet Indians live in third-world conditions in tribal housing slums and suffer hunger and deprivation, diabetes is epidemic among the children because they do not get three meals a day and will suffer heart disease and require kidney transplant by age of 20 according to Indian Health Service doctors. Border-whites have robbed over a billion dollars worth of tribal oil and gas reserves by leases approved by the Secretary of the Interior and lease Blackfeet grazing and farm lands for $5 per acre for the best grazing lands and irrigated farm lands in Montana. The Blackfeet cattle ranchers were self-reliant by 1893 with 500 ranchers, 25,000 cattle, shipping steers to Chicago stockyards, and had cash for all needful things, built ranch homes, barns, chicken coops, and gardens. By 1904 the Indians were broke and the border-whites leased Blackfeet grazing lands for ten cents an acre set by the Interior Department for white ranchers. Today, the Indians are forced into a water compact with the state of Montana that will leave the border-whites with our productive lands they stole, forever, and we, the Blackfeet people, will then be poor forever! None of the Blackfeet landowners got to testify or to participate in the water compact hearings or to present their own claims which will be extinguished forever in the water compact. How did the border-whites get on the sovereign Blackfeet Reservation? Government investigators reported in 1928 that Blackfeet Agency superintendent McFatridge was guilty of accepting bribes on grazing leases, stealing wire and supplies of the Indians, embezzlement, collusion with border-whites to sell tribal land and oil rights, illegal attachment of Indian cattle for debts and liens of white men filed in state courts, Indian estates liquidated without probate or record, illegal real estate arrangements on Blackfeet land allotments, receiving private and under-the-table cash payments, paying illegal debts and liens filed by border-whites on Indian money, foreclosing on hundreds of fee patents issued to illiterate Indian Wards of the United States Government, sold Indian oil rights to oil corporations, an estimated worth of one billion dollars, forced many private oil leases whereby Indians would pay all costs of production and in the end would get nothing for their oil rights, and found guilty of "sanction of corporate privileges by bribery" by United States Senate investigators in his dealings with the Great Northern Railway, Swift & Co., Conrad Investment Company, Texaco, Standard Oil, and state and county government officials. In the winter and spring of 1913 the Joint Commission of Congress To Investigate Indian Affairs led by chairman Harry Lane of Oregon found the agent and border-whites had starved to death over one hundred Blackfeet landowners to force their consent to sell 156,000 acres of irrigated farm lands and newly discovered oil fields. The Blackfeet Indians told senator Lane they were being starved in order to force their consent for a tribal land cession for Indians lands coveted by the border-whites. Once again in 1921 senator Lane found Blackfeet "Doughboys" veterans of World War One "dying by the roadside" along with their aged parents to force them to sign fee patents on their individual lands for sale to corporations and border-whites in complicity with the Secretary of the Interior. Senator Lane reported that over 100 Indians died because they refused to sign the fee patents on their land. In 1944 tribal council chairman John Sharp wrote the Congress that the Indian Bureau and border-whites, including Louis Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railway had gone to Washington D.C. and got the tribal oil formations patented-in-fee so that he could foreclose on the patents in state courts and take the Indians oil rights. He reported that Louis Hill and county officials had targeted Blackfeet World War Two veterans for the land frauds since they were in Europe and Asia fighting the Nazi's. That is how white men like James J. Hill and his son Louis Hill got on the sovereign Blackfeet Indian Reservation, by inflicting slow death upon the Indians to force the Indians to sign the fee patents, but they were unsuccessful in their murders and tortures. The agent would toss the Indians in the unheated agency jail and let them die of exposure by freezing to death in the forty degree below zero weather. Now, the Montana border-whites and United States Congress are threatening to take the rest of our water rights if we do not sign the water compact settlement which extinguishes our land claims, forever! I will not sign the water compact and I am advocating my fellow Blackfeet people to vote no on the water compact because we have not received justice or just compensation and our stolen land returned to us. It is a human rights issue, not only at Blackfeet, but all over the Indian nations in America.
I am a Blackfeet patriot, who is a Vietnam veteran contaminated with Agent Orange sprayed on American troops in the Vietnam War and my sons are also suffering from Agent Orange illness denied by the United States Government. My son served in the Gulf War and he is suffering Gulf War Syndrome also denied by the government and my father was a veteran of World War Two in Patton's Tank Corp with eight medals, one awarded for disabling a German tank and saving his fellow troops. He died at age of 47 of his war experiences. I think we Indians deserve justice too.
Bob Juneau Sr.

BLACKFEET TRIBE OWNS ALL MINERALS ON THE BLACKFEET RESERVATION

In United States of America, Plaintiff, v. C.E. Frisbee, [Glacier County Attorney] J.L. Sherburne, [Agency Trader] Texas Co. [Texaco] et al, Defendants. Judge Pray In The District Court of the United States In and For the District of Montana; Decision No. 313: The question before the court at this time in the above entitled cause is on the motion by plaintiff for a summary judgment. This suit was brought by the plaintiff to quiet title to the lands described in the complaint, wherein through inadvertence and mistake on February 15th, 1930 a fee simple patent, numbered 1034812, to said lands was issued to Amy Sherman, who was also known as Amy Rides At The Door and Amy Running Fisher, wherein the alleged requirement of reservation of all of the mineral rights, including coal, oil & gas to the United States of America, for the benefit of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians, was omitted, without authority of law, from the provisions of the said patent, all of which is alleged to be contrary to the terms of the Act of June 30th, 1919; the pertinent provisions of which are as follows: That any and all minerals including coal, oil and gas are hereby reserved for the benefit of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians until Congress shall otherwise direct, and patents hereafter issued shall contain a reservation accordingly. The patent in question was issued after the enactment of the above statute and without the reservation therein required. From a perusal of the complaint and answer it does not appear that any material question of fact remains to be considered and that only questions of law are now involved. The court has examined the briefs of counsel for the respective parties and many of the numerous statutes and authorities cited. It is the estimation of counsel for plaintiffs that the reservation [of minerals] should have been incorporated in the patent, and since the officers responsible failed in their duty to include the reservation in question in the patent at the time of the issuance, the law itself becomes a part of the patent, and the reservations must be regarded the same as if incorporated therein. Defendants contend that the terms and provisions respecting reservation of minerals do not apply to general allotments of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians, but that the reservation applies only to the 80 acre homestead allotments. Defendants therefore allege in their cross-complaint that reservations of minerals contained in restricted fee patents numbered 866535 and 1018647 were erroneously included therein and without authority of law, wherefore defendants claim that the fee simple patent issued to Amy Sherman, No. 1034812 is good and valid and so also is their title to the coal, oil and gas underlying the lands described herein. The only question presented here is whether the fee simple patent to Amy Sherman, to the lands in question, was lawfully issued under the general allotment act of 1887, without restrictions contained in the Act of June 30th, 1919. It also appears from paragraph 12 of the complaint that on November 14, 1922 another patent, No. 887819, was issued to Annie Rides At The Door, under the Act of June 30, 1919, containing the reservation aforesaid, although this particular piece of land is not involved in this suit. The court is of the opinion that the act of June 30, 1919, became a part of the general allotment act of 1887 and that ALL FEE SIMPLE PATENTS SUBSEQUENTLY ISSUED WERE REQUIRED TO CONTAIN A RESERVATION OF "ANY AND ALL MINERALS, INCLUDING COAL, OIL AND GAS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BLACKFEET TRIBE OF INDIANS-AND THEN FOLLOWS THE CONCLUDING SENTENCE WHICH MAKES THE REQUIREMENT DOUBLY MANDATORY; "AND PATENTS HEREAFTER ISSUED SHALL CONTAIN A RESERVATION ACCORDINGLY." Judge Pray lectured the officers of the government [Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs] "The issuing of the patent without the reservations did not convey what the law reserved, and all persons are chargeable with notice thereof. From the authorities cited it appears that the act of the executive officers issuing the patent without including the reservations aforesaid could not affect such reservations and the purchasers were chargeable with knowledge of the limitations imposed upon the title by Act of Congress; and it was further held that the law becomes a part of the patent that no federal official can waive or render inoperative because of failure to incorporate the limitation or reservation in the patent. There seems to be nothing ambiguous or uncertain about the provisions of the statute in question, nor doubt as to their applicability to the patent to the lands described in complaint. The motion of plaintiff for a summary judgment should be granted and such is the order of the court. Judge Pray. In another jurisdictional issue of state lands on the reservation granted for school purposes, the state of Montana is claiming mineral rights on the Blackfeet Reservation. In 1931 Forrest Stone, Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, stated to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, "In looking over the record here, I cannot find anywhere where any part of this reservation is designated as state school land. The only lands set aside for school purposes is the Blackfeet Boarding School. It would be appreciated if the Indian Office could furnish me with some kind of schedule showing what lands are set aside on the Blackfeet Reservation as State School Lands." In addition to no state school lands there are no townships on the reservation incorporated under state jurisdiction, the townships of Browning and Babb are designated as tribal townships because the Blackfeet Chiefs protested any state law or jurisdiction on the reservation, and the Blackfeet Agency township is a federal reservation for the purpose of fulfilling treaty obligations. There is no jurisdiction on the reservation except Blackfeet Tribal Jurisdiction with federal laws that enforce the Blackfeet Treaty, all others are nothing but squatters. But, the ignorant tribal council is so greedy to get their hands on the water compact money they have sold us to white men and things will get worse after the compact because void patent in fee titles of white men in Glacier and Pondera counties will be legitimized if we vote to approve the water compact already approved by the council. WHAT HAPPENED TO REQUEST FOR A SENATE INVESTIGATION OF LAND FRAUDS?Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Resolution no. 224-2001 passed unanimously by the tribal council on August 9, 2001 states in part: Whereas, The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has completed a study on Blackfeet allotted lands, minerals, forced patents, and state and county government illegal incorporation on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; and, Whereas, The Blackfeet forced patents are a result of a criminal conspiracy of Indian Bureau employees and local whites documented by a United States Senate investigation in 1929; and Whereas, The creation of Glacier and Pondera counties on the Blackfeet Reservation by the Montana Legislature in 1919 violates disclaimers contained in the 1889 and 1972 state constitutions; violating the Blackfeet treaty with the United States; and Whereas, The Blackfeet Allottees and Blackfeet Nation have suffered epic poverty and diminished tribal sovereignty as a result of these actions; now, Therefore Be It Resolved: That repatriation of allotted lands and minerals be made to affected allottees and reparations be paid affected allottees; and tribal sovereignty be re-established upon the Blackfeet Nation and that all tax monies collected by the state of Montana, Glacier and Pondera counties be refunded to the Blackfeet Tribe, and further that the Senate Indian Affairs Committee investigate the Blackfeet Tribe and Blackfeet allottee complaints. Signed: Earl Old Person, Chairman and Leo Kennerly Jr. Secretary.
[historical note by Bob Juneau]: when we got this resolution passed in 2001 with the help of Jim St. Goddard, who lobbied for us, chairman Old Person was traveling around the country with his niece, and was very angry that Ed Spotted Eagle and I, had outflanked him and got the request for a senate investigation passed, but he told us he was going to get it rescinded, and he told the lawyer for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that the Blackfeet allottees and heirs did not want to pursue their land and oil claims. That is the treason Old Person has done to the Blackfeet people, he sided with the BIA and white men in the water compact. He is the tribal demon. Vote no on the compact until we get our stolen land and oil returned with $1. 6 billion dollars in just compensation from the Congress.

WATER COMPACT BRINGS MORE POVERTY, DESPAIR, DISEASE AND HOPELESSNESS

United Nations declaration that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, and that these principles are basic to happiness, harmonious relations and security of all people. Indians in Montana die at 50 years on average while white citizens live to 70 years on average, while the most recent statistics show Indian children commit suicide at higher rates than white children, and Indians live in a state of poverty in tribal housing slums with high unemployment rates above 50% on average. Blackfeet children suffer a juvenile diabetes epidemic caused by a lack of proper diet. Indian Health Service doctors told me our children do not get three good meals per day, they have rotten teeth because dentists do not fix teeth and pull teeth of children so they have already lost their permanent teeth as teens and it leads to heart disease and lung cancer later in life, and that they will need kidney transplants by age of 20 years. The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council has expenditures in the hundreds of millions of dollars each year from federal poverty grants, which federal funds have become the tribal welfare economy that supports tribal government but does not reach the tribal poor due to council pilfering of the poor funds. A forensic audit of tribal council spending found corruption in every tribal program. Council members and their families were taking thousands of dollars per week in 'salary advances' that were never paid back while the chief had a $350,000 culture fund to pay his blackmailers who caught his incest and rapes of Indian women at the tribal office. One council member had 35,000 acres of tribal lands sub-leased to white men. The white men in Glacier and pondera counties are living on stolen Blackfeet land allotments got by forged land titles issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and who profit $142,000,000 per year in sales of cows and crops on the stolen allotted lands of original Blackfeet allottees robbed in 1918-1922. Blackfeet claims include a billion dollars of oil revenues stolen by the Great Northern Railway owners, father & son robber barons James J. Hill and Louis Hill who was still robbing Blackfeet World War Two veterans while they were fighting the Nazi's and Japan. Nationwide there are 17,000 forced fee patents claims to 100 million acres of allotted Indian lands on Indian reservations across the United States, a vast system of white-apartheid still in existence in white territory called "reservation/counties" transplanted on Indian reservations by void patent-in-fee titles for which there is no warrant in the Constitution of the United States. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is a rogue federal agency used by corporations to exploit Indian land and resources by leases approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. In 1979 Forrest Gerard, the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs testified under oath to the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs that, "The United States Government would have to sue itself on behalf of its Indian wards." The United States Government was complicit; it had robbed allotted Indian lands and resources, calling it a "public spectacle." I call it a world class crime against the humanity of the Indian people deserving of sanctions by the World Court against the states of Montana and the Dakotas. Therefore, since the conspiracy of the century was exposed in 1979, the western states got a bill in Congress to force Indian landowners to accept state jurisdiction and water compact settlements for which the Indian landowners had no representation or legal assistance in defending treaty rights over states rights. The preamble to the Blackfeet water compact settlement "extinguishes" all past, present and future Blackfeet land and water claims, "forever."! The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council approved this water compact in 2009 in secret council meetings with state, federal and Congressional representatives. It seems they all had a vested interest in burying the century old forced fee patent claims since tribal council members, the Secretary of the Interior, and state of Montana are all defendants in the conspiracy. Our ancestors treaty is the only reason that we exist today as a treaty people and the only reason we still have our own reservation, and if we do not fight for our treaty rights today, then our future generations will not exist as treaty Indians. If, on the other hand, it is the secret goal of white-oriented Blackfeet politicians to turn the Blackfeet people into white citizens, the water compact is the perfect instrument to kill off all of our century old claims and then the white-oriented tribal politicians appear on the other side of the water compact $420,000,000 richer and whiter as President Joe McKay and his white tribal politicians with a new tribal constitution! The water compact states quite clearly that all past, present and future Blackfeet allotted land claims are "extinguished, forever," That was the decision of Chairman Earl Old Peron and Vice-Chairman Sassy Running Crane and the tribal council to end our treaty rights to all of the reservation for the exclusive use and occupancy of the Blackfeet Indians. Chief White Calf told the United States Government to remove the white men from the reservation; "they have no Indian blood in their veins." If we had a treaty right to all of our reservation in the 1896 Agreement, then we still have a treaty right to all of our land in 2017! We are still wards of the United States Government and if we go to federal or state court to defend our water rights and forced patents claims, it is the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States who must defend us. The tribal council dim-shits were unemployed bummers before they got on the council and they will go back to the commodity house when they are all defeated in the next tribal council election. Chairman Barnes is a new-age Indian in a cavalry hat clueless to Blackfeet treaty rights, a hardware store manager prior to his election. Chairman Old Person was a special pet of white men and BIA, a tribal leader who had a "one man tribal water department" while negotiating the water compact. In 1928 Chief Rides-At-The-Door told the Senate Indian Affairs Committee "This reservation belongs to the Indians by the allotment; you should give me the same privilege as yours, to have the full say of my own land in my own country." The Blackfeet have been poor since the massive land frauds in 1918-1922 of allotted Blackfeet lands and robbery of the self-reliant Blackfeet cattle industry by white ranchers. There is not enough land for both white men and Blackfeet on our reservation, we will remain poor, forever, if we do not remove the white man from our stolen lands. The water compact money will be wasted and stolen by the tribal council and the despair and early deaths of Blackfeet children and tribal poverty will continue in tribal housing slums. There is nothing in the water compact for the people-no per capita-the Salish-Kootenai got $12,000 each and loans for cattle and business development. Where is our benefit from the water compact? It is a dumb deal done by dumber council members. Vote no on the water compact referendum, it puts all of the money into the tribal council families and nothing for us tribal members and trust landowners and cattle ranchers.  Bob Juneau Sr. a Blackfeet patriot