And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:34:35 +0200
From: Long Standing Bear Chief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LISN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please read and post the attached results of our Blackfoot Confederacy
meeting.
Voices from the Blackfoot Confederacy regarding illegal Montana counties
and a fraudulent Treaty 7
(Browning, Montana, within the Blackfoot Nation)
Members of the Blackfoot Confederacy met and decided that their primary
objective goal for the coming year will be to educate its people and the
general public about the illegal nature of Glacier and Pondera Counties
with the homeland of the Blackfoot people.
The consensus of opinion according to Long Standing Bear Chief, a
spokesman for the Pikanii Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy, is that
exposing the illegal creation of Glacier and Pondera Counties in 1919 by
the State of Montana will move everyone toward a resolution of the
Indians white problems, past and present, of taxation, jurisdiction,
stolen land, inheritance, and a host of other issues that involve the
State of Montana, its counties, and the United States of America.
The members present also agreed that the lands of the Blackfoot
Confederacy are effectively under occupation under an illegal authority.
Reference is made here to the fact that lands in what are now call
Alberta, Canada, by the whites, were taken under a fraudulent Treaty 7,
supposedly signed in 1877 at a place called Blackfoot Crossing on the
Bow River.
No such thing as a Treaty 7
George Yellow Horn a spokesman from Brocket, Alberta said that his
father Albert Yellow Horn, Cecil Currey of Hobemma, Alberta, and Eugene
Steiner of Saddle Lake, Alberta went to London, England in 1989 to find
the original of Treaty 7 and were unsuccessful in finding it.
In 1990 Eugene Steiner returned to London as instructed in 1889 to meet
with the representatives of Queen Elizabeth ll, only to be told that the
original Treaty 7 did not exist in the royal archives.
In 1877 when Victoria was queen, all treaties had to be stamped with
the Royal Seal and be signed by her. To this day there is no such
record of a stamped original Treaty 7 by Queen Victoria in all of Great
Britain (England) or all of Canada. Indian people have looked in
Government of Canada archives in Ottowa, Edmonton, Calgary and in the
papers of their
ancestral Grandfathers and nothing has been found. Treaty 7 in its
original form never seems to have existed, at least one bearing the
Royal
Seal and the signature of the Queen. Without these two qualifications
there cannot be a Treaty 7.
The illegal Montana counties.
In 1789 the new United States of America ratified its
Constitution. In that constitution there is something called the
commerce clause that is interpreted to mean that no state may have
jurisdiction over matters involving Indians or Indian land within the
United
States.
In 1889 the State of Montana was allowed to be created as a
state by the United States of America. The very first article in the new
constitution of the new State of Montana said that the state could have
NO jurisdiction over Indians or Indian lands without the express
approval of the Congress of the United States.
In 1919 the State of Montana created Glacier and Pondera
Counties within the homeland of the Blackfoot Nation. A nation having
treaty relations with the United States indicative of its status as a
nation. In view of the foregoing citations of law the action taken by
the State of Montana was fraudulent and illegal.
The act of the State of Montana was illegal for another reason: Montana
never obtained the consent of the Blackfoot people to create counties
using their land base.
It was also pointed out at the confederacy meeting that Indians were not
citizens of the United States until 1924. Only the United States
government could have negotiated some kind of treaty agreement with the
Blackfoot to purchase their land to create state counties. This was not
done prior to or in 1919, or since that time.
On a February 17, 1998 Glacier County Attorney Larry D. Epstein said in
a letter to researcher Long Standing Bear Chief: "In direct answer to
your question is, no, the state did not obtain the consent of the
Blackfeet Tribe to create Glacier and Pondera Counties."
A search of the Pondera County archives revealed no record of consent
by the Blackfoot Nation giving its consent to include land within the
nation as the basis, in part, of Pondera County. Again, a patently
illegal act.
It was decided that Long Standing Bear Chief and Gene DuBray, both
members of the Blackfoot Nation, should proceed to file a class action
type legal action that would order Glaceir and Pondera County
Commissioners to cease and desist from their illegal and fraudulent
activities within the boundaries of the Blackfoot Nation, called the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation by some.
The foregoing is a press release of the Blackfoot Confederacy.
Contact 406-338-2882 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more
information.
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