Preamble It is of grave concern to all living in the present times to reflect on the destiny of the Blackfeet Nation and can we still maintain our sovereignty and jurisdiction as such. The government of the Blackfeet Nation has forsaken the constitution by which they swore to uphold and yet we find our land base diminishing, our water being negotiated away, our minerals are being literally taken from us and those who are our leaders focus on what the outside government’s want. If we cannot place our trust in our government; then it becomes incumbent on us all to set the situation straight. Our government has developed a secret society, if you will, and those not included into that society are systematically silenced through various means. Elections are questionable and those within this secret society all have jobs along with their spouse. In a poverty stricken society, all jobs become precious. It remains within this society to set things straight but refuse to inflict hardship on fellow members or friends yet have no problem doing so to others of less importance. As a result ongoing corruption and greed are purposely ignored and defended, they fire many people and hire ones’ with a high wage proving their brotherhood allegiance, yet the people continue to suffer. Therefore, in an effort to save what land, resources and water; the forgoing proclamation has been developed addressing serious issues needing to remain at the people’s discretion necessary in order that we may enjoy that which the Creator has given us and our grandchildren for generations until the sun no longer sets. This proclamation is the voice of the people who are members of the Blackfeet tribe and speak on behalf of all likeminded members so we speak as one voice. Your signature is therefore very important in the preservation of the Blackfeet Nation and our future. Now is your time to put your name down and draw the line. This is your chance to stand up and be heard. A single voice is as a tinkling bell, but a multitude of voices is as a roaring thunder. Jerrold Blevins, September 12, 2014 P R O C L A M A T I O N OF THE BLACKFEET/PIKUNAI WHEREAS: UNDER THE THREAT OF BEING TAKEN INTO STATE COURT ON OUR WATER RIGHTS WHILE NOT PREPARED, THE BLACKFEET INDIAN NATION IS BEING FORCED INTO A NEGOTIATED WATER COMPACT THAT IF ACCEPTED SETTLES ITS WATER RIGHTS; QUIETS TITLE TO OUR WATER RIGHTS TITLE TO WHICH RESIDES IN THE BLACKFEET INDIAN NATION, AND IT QUIETS TITLE TO OUR ABORIGINAL TITLE, OUR TREATY RIGHTS, AND WE WILL BE STRIPPED OF OUR WINTERS DOCTRINE RIGHTS AND OUR PRIOR AND PARAMOUNT RIGHTS TO THE USE OF WATER AND ITS DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS WHICH ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BLACKFEET AND THEIR DESCENDANTS WITH THE END RESULT THAT THE BLACKFEET MEMBERS WILL BE FURTHER IMPOVERISHED WITH NO RECOURSE, AND WHEREAS; THE BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL HAS NO AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO THE MONTANA STATE WATER COMPACT AND BIRCH CREEK AMENDMENT AND HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO SUBMIT IT TO SENATOR TESTER OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS WHO INTENDS TO SEND IT TO THE FULL SENATE FOR RATIFICATION, IT REQUIRES THE CONSENT OF THE BLACKFEET MEMBERS WHEN TRUTHFULLY INFORMED WITH PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AS REQUIRED BY THE DECLARATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, AND THE GENOCIDE ACT OF 1988; AND WHEREAS; THE BLACKFEET ARE PROTECTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION (1935 AS AMENDED) AND CORPORATE CHARTER (1936) WHICH SAYS UNDER CORPORATE POWERS THAT THE TRIBAL COUNCIL IS SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS WITH REGARD TO DISPOSING OF PROPERTY AND THAT INCLUDES LAND OR INTERESTS IN LAND AND WATER RIGHTS AND WATER POWER SITES, ETC AND TO REMOVE THAT LIMITATION, THE TRIBAL COUNCIL HELD A REFERENDUM TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION ACCORDING TO THE HARVARD ECONOMIC STUDY MODEL AND WAS LIMITED TO COMPLETE IT IN ONE YEAR BUT AFTER THAT ONE YEAR THAT CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE DECIDED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE WHEELER-HOWARD ACT AND GET RID OF OUR CONSTITUTION AND CORPORATE CHARTER; AND WHEREAS; BEGINNING WITH THE BLACKFEET TRIIBAL COUNCIL OF 2010, OUR CONSTITUTION CAME UNDER ATTACK AND HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY VIOLATED RESULTING IN TWO HONEST COUNCILS GETTING FELONIZED IN FEDERAL COURT FOR NO REASON, RESULTING IN PROTESTS, ILLEGAL REMOVAL OF COUNCILS, AND ILLEGAL ACTIONS TAKEN BY THIS AND RECENT PAST COUNCILS THAT THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS HAVE DEEMED ILLEGAL; AND WHEREAS; THE UNITED STATES HAS PERVERTED THE INTENT OF THE MCCARRAN AMENDMENT TO SAY IT OWNS TITLE TO OUR LAND AND WATER BECAUSE IT HOLDS OUR TITLE IN TRUST AND THEREFORE IT CAN WAIVE OUR SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY TO HAVE OUR WATER RIGHTS TRIED IN STATE COURT; AND WHEREAS; THE STATE OF MONTANA HAS NO AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS, COMPACT, TREATIES WITH THE INDIAN TRIBES, ONLY THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE AND THE SENATE HAVE AUTHORITY, SO THE STATE’S “RATIFICATION” OF A WATER COMPACT MEANS NOTHING UNTIL RATIFIED BY CONGRESS WHICH HAS A TRUST REPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE OUR PEOPLE AND OUR LANDS AND RESOURCES; AND WHEREAS; THE UNITED STATES AGENT FOR THE TRUSTEE, THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, CONSPIRED WITH THE STATE TO SUBMIT THE BLACKFEET TO STATE AUTHORITY, JURISDICTION, AND CONTROL THROUGH THE STATE’S WATER COURTS BILL OF 1979 AND IN WHICH ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT HAS CONSPIRED TO DIVEST US OF OUR INVALUABLE WATER RIGHTS TITLE TO WHICH RESIDES IN THE BLACKFEET INDIAN NATION AND TO DIMINISH OUR INHERENT SOVEREIGN POWERS WHICH RESIDES IN THE MEMBERS; AND WHEREAS; IN 1983 THE BLACKFEET WERE BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WITHOUT AN ATTORNEY BECAUSE IT HAD NOT INTERVENED ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND THE BLACKFEET SHOWED THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD A CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND COULD NOT ADEQUATELY REPRESENT US AND THAT CONFLICT WAS EXHIBITED IN A MEMO IN WHICH THE UNITED STATE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAID IT DID NOT CARE WHO ADMINISTERED OUR WATER AND BY THE FACT OF THEM JOINING THE STATE IN ITS APPEAL AGAINST ALL THE TRIBES INVOLVED IN THAT CASE THAT BEGAN WITH ALL MONTANA TRIBES IN NORTHERN CHEYENNE V. UNITED STATES, AND BECAME KNOWN AS THE ADSIT CASE/DECISION; AND WHEREAS; BLACKFEET FILED IN FEDERAL COURT THE THREE QUESTIONS LEFT OUT IN THE ADSIT DECISION AND COURT HEARING HELD BUT NO DECISION FROM THE COURT UNTIL THE POLITICS CHANGED WITH THE CHANGE OF COUNCIL WHICH FIRED OUR WATER ATTORNEY AND EVERYONE ASSOCIATED TO THE CASE AND PROCEEDED TO APPEAL THE CASE WHICH WAS AGAINST US AND IN THE WEAKEST MANNER POSSIBLE BUT LEFT OPEN THE “MISMANAGEMENT” PORTION OF THE CASE REGARDING THE SUBSIDIZED MILK RIVER FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROJECT WHICH DELIVERS WATER 200 MILES DOWNSTREAM; IT ENTERS INTO CANADA AND REENTERS THE U.S. TO THE CRADLE OF THE WINTERS DECISION OF 1908; AND WHEREAS; WITH THE FIRING OF OUR WATER ATTORNEY AND OTHERS ASSOCIATED, OUR WATER CASE WAS DISRESPECTED AND KILLED BY INCOMPETENCE, OUR HYROELECTRIC PROJECT ON LAKE SHERBURNE WAS STOPPED, AND NO OTHER WATER PROJECTS SET TO BE COMMENCED WERE RECOGNIZED AND THE ILLEGAL CH2M HILL STUDIES WERE ACCEPTED BY THE THEN TRIBAL COUNCIL TWO OF WHOM SIT ON OUR COUNCIL TODAY AND THE 75% UNDERCUTTING OF OUR WATER RIGHTS COMMENCED INTO NEGOTIATIONS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAID ATTORNEY WORKING WITH THE BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCILS; AND WHEREAS; THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR AS CO CONSPIRATOR ATTEMPTED TO ENACT RULES AND REGULATIONS SETTING UP CRITERIA THAT WOULD CUT OUR WATER RIGHTS IN ANY COURT BY 75% AND THOSE RULES AND REGULATIONS WHILE NOT APPROVED BY THE INDIAN NATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY WERE AND HAVE BEEN USED IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS TO UNDERCUT OUR WATER RIGHTS BEGINNING WITH THAT PERCENTAGE; AND WHEREAS; IN 1995, BLACKFEET WERE ENTERED ON THE LIST TO RECEIVE FEDERAL “SURPLUS” (OURS) POWER” FROM THE MAINTSTEM OF THE DAMS ON THE MISSOURI IN WHICH WE HOLD WATER RIGHTS AND TO WHICH WE WERE/ARE ENTITLED AND WE ENTERED INTO A 40 YEAR CONTRACT TO RECEIVE REDUCED POWER AND ULTIMATELY BEGAN RECEIVING IT TO THE AMOUNT OF $14,900.00 PER MONTH FOR THE ELDERLY AND THE SICK MEMBERS AND IT ALL STOPPED WITH NO EXPLANATION AND WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO TRACE WHAT HAPPENED TO IT; AND WHEREAS; THE UNITED STATES THROUGH ITS MILK RIVER FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROJECT ILLEGALLY TOOK OUR WATER AND HAS BEEN TAKING AND USING IT FOR OVER 100 YEARS TO DELIVER WATER TO DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS AND OTHER CORPORATE INTERESTS; AND WHEREAS; RECENT CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION (2008) PASSED TO REHABILITATE THE MILK RIVER PROJECT ATTEMPTED TO CONDEMN AND DESTROY OUR PRIOR AND PARAMOUNT RIGHTS, OUR TREATY RIGHTS, OUR WINTERS RESERVED RIGHTS, AND REDUCE US TO COMPETING FOR HYDROELECTRIC AND OTHER WATER PROJECTS ON THE LEVEL OF ‘MUNICIPALITIES’; AND WHEREAS; EFFORTS BY THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, MEMBERS FROM MONTANA DELEGATION WITH SENATOR TESTER AS CHAIRMAN, HAVE PUSHED AND PRESSURED OUR TRIBAL COUNCILS TO SUBMIT THE MONTANA STATE WATER COMPACT FOR HEARINGS AND ARE NOW IN THE PROCESS OF PUSHING FOR GETTING THE COMPACT TO THE FULL HOUSE FOR RATIFICATION WHICH RATIFICATION WILL COVER THEIR ILLEGAL 2008 LEGISLATION DESTROYING OUR TREATY RIGHTS THAT ARE PRIOR AND PARAMOUNT TO OTHERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR WATER, (amendment) illuminating the Conflict of Interest, the United States Senators represent the State of Montana and Constituents, and are therefore biased in opinion and judgment thereby necessitating their withdrawal from Voting. Participating, or Manipulating, thus this conflict leaves the Blackfeet without proper Representation on that level; AND WHEREAS; IN OPPOSITION TO THE BLACKFEET TRIBAL COUNCIL’S DECISION TO SIGN THE COMPACT AND SEND IT INTO SENATOR TESTERS HANDS. THE PEOPLE’S VOICE HAS ONCE AGAIN BEEN SILENCED DUE TO A CHANGE IN THE SEQUENCE OF RATIFICATION BY THEM AND OUR PEOPLE’S CONSENT SO THAT THE BLACKFEET PEOPLE’S VOTE ON THE COMPACT COMES ONLY AFTER CONGRESS RATIFIES THE SAME RENDERING THE VOTE OF THE BLACKFEET INEFFECTUAL BUT IN THE MEANTIME SUSTAINED EFFORTS BY THE UNITED STATES AND THE CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL COUNCILS ARE DEVOTED TO SELLING THE COMPACT TO THE PEOPLE WHICH NECESSARILY MEANS PULLING THE WOOL OVER THEIR EYES; AND WHEREAS; SAID COMPACT HAS BEEN NEGOTIATED BY AND BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, THE STATE OF MONTANA, AND A LAWYER WHO PURPORTS TO REPRESENT THE BLACKFEET AND THEIR INTERESTS BUT IS PAID BY THE UNITED STATES TO CONDUCT ONLY NEGOTIATIONS AND PROVIDES FOR NO DEVELOPMENT OTHER THAN FOR THE DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS FOR WHICH ALL MONIES COMMITTED TO THAT COMPACT WILL BE UTILIZED; AND WHEREAS; THE UNITED STATES PAID LAWYER HAS NEVER PREPARED THE BLACKFEET/PIKUNI FOR LITIGATION AND AS A RESULT HAS NEVER DEVELOPED OUR INVALUABLE RIGHTS TO THE USE OF WATER AND INSTEAD HAS STOOD BY WHILE OTHERS SOUGHT TO DEVELOP HYDROELECTRIC ON THE STORAGE FACILITIES TO WHICH WE HAVE PRIOR AND PARAMOUNT RIGHTS TO DEVELOP OUR OWN HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS TO BRING FREE OR AFFORDABLE ELECTRICITY TO OUR IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE AND THIS HAS PLACED US IN THE POSITITON OF HAVING TO BE CONSTANTLY VIGILANT TO STOP DEVELOPMENT BY ANY OTHER ENTITY OR BUSINESS ; AND WHEREAS: THE COMPACT SEEKS TO ONLY PROVIDE SAFE DRINKING WATER, REHABILITATE EXISTING BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFIARS IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND THE FEDERAL SUBSIDIZED ST. MARY, MILK RIVER SYSTEM AND PROVIDES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE FACILITY (DAM) AT FOUR HORNS AND GUARANTEES THAT THE BLACKFEET WILL NOT USE THE TWO MEDICINE AND BADGER FOR 15-25 YEARS TO INSURE DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS ENOUGH WATER FOR THEIR NEEDS, AND LEAVES THE BLACKFEET WITH NO WATER EXCEPT THAT IN TIBER DAM 60 MILES OFF THE BLACKFEET RESERVATION AND NO ASSISTANCE TO BRING THE WATER BACK TO THE BLACKFEET, AND NO RECOURSE TO GET ANY MORE IF NEEDED; AND WHEREAS: NO DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS HAVE EVER SUFFERED FROM LACK OF WATER AND IN THE 2013 DECISION ON BIRCH CREEK (NON INDIANS V. NON-INDIANS), THE STATE COURT JUDGE SAID NO ONE HAD EVER GIVEN THE PONDERA COUNTY AND CANAL CORPORATION THE RIGHT TO FORM AND TO DENY WATER TO OTHER WATER USERS FROM THAT SYSTEM, AND THE JUDGE SAID NO ONE GAVE PERMISSION TO WHOMEVER TO CREATE LAKE FRANCIS FROM BIRCH CREEK ALL WHILE THE 1908 CONRAD INVESTMENT JUDICIAL DECISION GUARANTEED US 41.76 CFS AND PRIOR AND PARAMOUNT RIGHTS THERE, AND INSURED OUR RESERVED RIGHTS TO THE USE OF THAT WATER; AND WHEREAS: THE BLACKFEET HAVE SUFFERED UNDUE HARDSHIP FROM OUTRAGEOUS ELECTRIC AND FUEL AND WATER BILLS AND HAVE SUFFERED ABJECT POVERTY IN THE FACE OF WHITES ON THE RESERVATION AND DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS GETTING RICH AT THEIR EXPENSE WHILE BEING SUBSIDIZED BY THE UNITED STATES AND IN THIS COMPACT, THE STATE WILL SUBSIDIZE DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS IN THE BIRCH CREEK AMENDMENT AND IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT THE BLACKFEET ARE EXPECTED TO PITCH IN MONEY TO INSURE WATER TO THE DOWNSTREAM USERS; AND WHEREAS: THE UNITED STATES HAS AND HAS HAD A TRUST RESPONSIBILITY TO HONOR THE TREATIES AND THE WINTERS DOCTRINE RIGHTS (1908) THAT RECOGNIZES OUR TREATIES AND TO DEVELOP OUR WATER FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR BLACKFEET AND THEIR DESCENDANTS AND HAVE REFUSED TO DO SO AND HAVE INSTEAD CONFISCATED OUR WATER (1909) AND SUPPRESSED DEVELOPMENT OF OUR WATER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WHITE DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS ; AND WHEREAS: THE JUDICIAL DECISIONS ESTABLISHING AND RECOGNIZING OUR WINTERS DOCTRINE RESERVED RIGHTS HAVE BEEN IGNORED AND SCUTTLED TO SATISFY WHITE DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS WITH THE HELP OF THE UNITED STATES; AND WHEREAS; BLACKFEET WATER RIGHTS AND THE ATTENDANT STATE COMPACT HAVE BEEN USED AS A POLITICAL FOOTBALL AND PRESSURE APPLIED ON OUR COUNCILS AND BY THE UNITED STATES TO GIVE UP OUR INVALUABLE WATER RIGHTS TITLE TO WHICH RESIDES IN THE PEOPLE AND TO GIVE UP OUR INHERENT SOVEREIGN POWER TO CONTROL OUR WATER AND TO GIVE THAT CONTROL TO THE STATE OF MONTANA WHICH HISTORICALLY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE DEADLIEST ENEMY OF OUR PEOPLE AND WHICH HAS BEEN PROVEN IN THIS NEGOTIATED BLACKFEET WATER SETTLEMENT COMPACT; AND WHEREAS; WITH THE BLACKFEET’S REFUSAL OF THE COMPACT, THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS WILL ATTEMPT TO TAKE THE BLACKFEET INTO THE STATE COURT WHERE WE WILL HAVE NO CHANCE BECAUSE IT IS A POLITICAL COURT AND BECAUSE WE ARE NOT PREPARED AND THEY HAVE NO JURISDICTION HERE AS THEY HAD PROMISED THAT THEY WOULD NOT TRY TO EXTEND ITS JURISDICTION OVER OUR LANDS WHICH INCLUDES OUR WATER BY THE ENABLING ACT OF 1889 AND ARTICLE ONE OF THE MONTANA CONSTITUTION, “COMPACT WITH THE UNITED STATES” AND THEREFORE; BASED JUST ON THE ABOVE, THE BLACKFEET MEMBERSHIP RECOGNIZES THAT RACISM, ABUSE, OPPRESSION, AND TERRORISM, AND CORRUPTION, ALL ARE BEING AND HAVE BEEN PRACTICED ON THE BLACKFEET AND GENOCIDE IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESULT AFTER UNTOLD SUFFERING OF OUR PEOPLE, AND CORRUPTION IS HELD IN PLACE AND USED TO FURTHER HEAP SUFFERING ON OUR PEOPLE AND EFFORTS TO ENFORCE THE PRESSURE HAS INCLUDED THE SILENCING OF OUR PEOPLE THROUGH THE SILENCING OF OUR VOICE THROUGH THE BALLOT AND PROTESTS AND BLACKOUT OF THE MEDIA; AND THEREFORE; THE BLACKFEET HAVE REFUSED THE NEGOTIATED COMPACT AS RATIFIED BY THE STATE WHICH COMPACT IS WAITING TO BE GIVEN TO SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS FOR RATIFICATION; AND THEREFORE; THE BLACKFEET SEE THE CONSPIRACY INVOLVING THE TRUSTEE AND ITS AGENTS AS A VIOLATION OF ITS TRUST RESPONSIBILTIY AND AS A BREACH OF ITS FIDUCIARY DUTY WHICH DUTY DEMANDS THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF A TRUSTEE; AND THEREFORE; BLACKFEET/PIKUNAI HEREBY GIVE NOTICE AND SAY THAT PRIOR TO ANY PROPOSED SETTLEMENT TALKS ON OUR WATER THE FOLLOWING MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES : 1. FORESTALL ANY PROCEEDINGS AND IN DOING SO SHALL NOT STAND BEHIND THE MCCARRAN AMENDMENT AND SHALL NOT USE IT TO WAIVE OUR SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY AS A MEANS TO PRESSURE US INTO NEGOTIATIONS OR TO GET US INTO STATE COURT, ITS INTENT NEVER INVOLVED THE INDIANS; AND 2. TO NOT RECOGNIZE THIS NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL: THE LEGALITY OF THE PRESENT COUNCIL IS IN QUESTION AND ANYTHING THEY DO AND ANY DECISIONS THEY MAKE FROM THE DAY OF THEIR SWEARING-IN IS TO BE DISREGARDED AND DEEMED ILLEGAL AS REGARDING ANYTHING OF A FINANCIAL NATURE, ANYTHING INVOLVING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES ESPEICALLY OUR WATER RIGHTS, ANYTHING INVOLVING THE EMPLOYMENT OF OUR PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED OR IN ANY WAY INVOLVED THEMSELVES WERE IN COLLUSION IN GETTING OR RECEIVING MONEY THROUGH EXTORTION AND BLACKMAIL; AND 3. TO CARRY OUT ALL THE INDICTMENTS, TWENTY-SEVEN (27) OR MORE BROUGHT BY THIS PAST COUNCIL WITH WILLIE SHARP AS CHAIRMAN AND WITHIN THE PAST 9 MONTHS , THE INVESTIGATIONS MUST CONTINUE CONCERNING THE ORGANIZED CRIME AND 0N-GOING CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE BLACKFEET PEOPLE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THROUGH DATA MANIPULATION AND REPORTINGRESULTING IN THE BLACKFEET LOSS OF EVERYTHING; THIS OBVIOUS DISPLAY OF LOOK THE OTHER WAY POLITICS IMMPLICATES THE UNITED STATES AS CO-CONSPIRATOR OR INEPT AT FISCAL MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY IN INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE ORGANIZED CRIME AND CRIMINALS AND THE ONGOING CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE BLACKFEET OF EVERYTHING; AND 4. TO CONTINUE AND INSTITUTE THE FORENSIC AUDITS ON FINANCES, ENROLLMENT, LANDS AND RESOURCES; THE ENROLLMENT HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH AND MANY ENROLLMENTS ARE INACCURATE; FINANCIAL MISMANGEMENT AND OUTRIGHT THEFT HAS BEEN COVERED UP AND THE DEPTH OF THE CORRUPTION HAS NOT BEGUN TO BE BROUGHT OUT; LAND HAS BEEN STOLEN BY WILLS, BIA EMPLOYEES ASSISTING, BIA EMPLOYEE HAVING LAND OWNERS SIGN DOCUMENTS PUPORTING TO BE RIGHTS OF WAY BUT INSTEAD BY THEIR SIGNATURES SIGNED AWAY THEIR LANDS AND OTHER METHODS MAY HAVE BEEN UTILIZED THAT HAS NOT COME TO LIGHT AND REGARDING RIGHT OF WAYS, ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION, VIOLATING LAWS OF OWNERSHIP BY THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS AND CORPORATE INTERESTS, BUT WE SEE THE RESULTS BY WHO HAS LOST THEIR LANDS AND THE QUESTION OF WHO IS NOW IN OWNERSHIP OF THOSE LANDS AND NON-MEMBERS GETTING HOMESITE, RECREATION, BUSINESS LEASES, ALL THE RECORDS MUST BE OPEN TO OUR BLACKFEET/PIKUNI MEMBERSHIP WITH NO CONDITIONS OR IMPEDIMENTS; AND 5. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE ENROLLMENT AND LAND AUDITS BE DONE AS THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW WHAT OUR NUMBERS ARE AS TO WHAT OUR WATER NEEDS ARE AND NO WAY TO KNOW THE EXTENT OF OUR LANDS AGAIN AS REGARDS OUR WATER NEEDS; AND 6. THAT ALL FORCED FEE PATENT LANDS BE RESTORED TO THE BLACKFEET INDIAN NAITON AND THE ORIGINAL OWNERS BE COMPENSATED, AND THAT LANDS SOLD OR BOUGHT HERE THAT VIOLATED BLACKFEET INDIAN NATION LAW OF FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL BE BOUGHT BY THE U.S. AND RESTORED TO THE TRIBE NECESSARY TO DETERMINE WATER NEEDS; AND 7. GIVE COMPENSATION FOR THEFT OF OUR MILK, ST. MARY RIVERS FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE STARTING AMOUNT OF $2 BILLION DOLLARS HALF OF WHICH IS TO BE PAID DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE AND THE OTHER HALF USED TO BUY OUT NON-,MEMBER AND WHITE OWNERSHIP OF LAND INCLUDING HUTTERITES; AND 8. AGGRESSIVLY BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF HYDROELECTRIC ON SWIFT, SHERBURNE, TWO MEDICINE, AND TIBER DAMS AND INSURING THE TRIBE HAS CONTROL OF THEM; AND 9. BIRCH CREEK OFF LIMITS AS THE CONRAD INVESTMENT, 1908 WINTERS DECISION STANDS AND THERE WILL NOT BE ANY “BIRCH CREEK AMENDMENT”; AND 10. ALL OF OUR BOUNDARIES INVESTIGATED AND OUR LAND RESTORED AND SECURED TO US ADMINISTRATIVELY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO OUR WESTERN BOUNDARY AND WHAT IS KNOWN AS “THE CEDED STRIP”; AND 11. THE FOLLOWING RIGHTS TO BE RECOGNIZED; A. OUR HUMAN RIGHTS TO CLEAN WATER WITHOUT HAVING TO GIVE UP OUR INVALUABLE RIGHTS AND TITLE TO OUR WATER IN EXCHANGE FOR WHAT EVERY OTHER PERSON AS A HUMAN BEING IS ENTITLED TO; B. OUR RIGHTS TO BE FREE FROM RACISM WHICH HAS SET POLICY WHICH HAS SET INTO MOTION THE EXCLUDING AND DENIGRATING OF BLACKFEET’PIKUNI INHERENT SOVEREIGN POWERS TO GOVERN AND THE EXTINGUISHMENT OF TITLE TO OUR WATER AND THE CONFISCATION OF OUR WATER IN ORDER TO GIVE STATE CONTROL OVER OUR WATER AND TO GUARANTEE WATER FOR DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS; AND C. OUR INHERENT SOVEREIGN POWERS OF SELF GOVERNMENT, OUR TREATY RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW, OUR ABORIGINAL TITLE AND RIGHTS TO OUR WATER AND OUR LANDS, OUR TREATY RESERVED RIGHTS AS ARTICULATED IN THE 1908 WINTERS DOCTRINE, OUR PRIOR AND PARAMOUNT RIGHTS TO DEVELOPMENT, THE RIGHTS TO DEVELOPMENT OF OUR WATER FOR US BY THE UNITED STATES TRUSTEE. 12. TO PROVIDE THE FUNDING FOR ALL OF THE ABOVE INCLUDING A TEAM OF LAWYERS AND ENGINEERS AND INVESTIGATORS OF OUR CHOICE TO REPRESENT THE BLACKFEET/PIKUNAI. 13. TO HOLD ANY SECRETARIAL ELECTION AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL USING THE HAND-COUNT METHOD AND THE VOTING MACHINE DISSEMBLED. (amended 9/21/2014) ONLY UNTIL ALL THIS HAS BEEN DONE CAN THE BLACKFEET/PIKUNAI CONSIDER ANY TALKS ABOUT SETTLING OUR WATER RIGHTS; SETTLEMENT OF OUR WATER NECESSARILY INVOLVES TO THE SATISFACTION OF OUR PEOPLE THROUGH THE ACTIONS LISTED ABOVE BUT NOT LIMITED TO . DATED THIS 12TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2014 DRAFTED BY GERALDINE GORDON, EDITED BY JERRY BLEVINS
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