The United Nations definition of genocide includes physical genocide of which we are familiar in the massacre of Heavy Runner's band, small pox epidemics, whiskey trade, starvation of 600 Blackfeet Indians in the winter of 1883-1884, and the many murders of Indians by whites. Less well known are the "Slow Death Measures" genocides employed by the border-whites today to starve the Indians into the sale of allotted lands and the mass robbery of allotted lands of 500,000 acres of the best reservation lands, and the domination of the reservation economy by white ranchers, farmers, businessmen, energy companies, tourism businesses, and everything that can be stolen. On top of this robbery with the help of the federal trustee, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the whites are slowly disintegrating tribal society by subjecting the Indians to conditions of life which owing to lack of proper housing, clothing, food, hygiene, and medical care are likely to result in the debilitation and early death of Indians, and the deprivation of the means of livelihood by the robbery of the family allotments, looting of the family individual Indian accounts, denial of housing, and economic opportunities available to the white inhabitants of the territory and state concerned, which have reduced the Blackfeet Tribe to a helpless and hopeless condition for generations. The Blackfeet Indians that you see in positions of power that go along with the "slow death measures" are merely looking out for themselves or personally profiting from the white man's occupation of the reservation. That is why Chief Old Person and former Chairman Old Person is honored and feted by the Montana whites and why he is so dishonored to put new moccassins on the governor's feet in the tribal office. He is a tribal traitor. There have been five or six Blackfeet Superintendents of the Browning Public Schools and an Indian School Board since the 1960's yet the schools continue to lose 50% of the Blackfeet school children K-12. No other school district in the nation would allow the loss of 50% of their students without lynching the superintendent. Who do they blame? The little Indian students, that's who? One of my son's has been diagnosed with anxiety caused by white racist teachers in the Browing School District. There are literally hundreds of Blackfeet students who have been mentally damaged for life by racist white school teachers in the Browning public schools. The Blackfeet school superintendent's are "white-oriented" Indians trained to act in a white racist tradition going back to General Pratt's "kill the Indian, save the man" school policy at Carlisle Indian School in 1890. Nothing has changed since Pratt's racism in public schools. 

Why is the state of Montana afraid of teaching Indian history in public schools? It is the white man's genocide and robbery of Indian lands that would surface in the class rooms. How embarrassing, the white man is a savage and a crook. We brought the Blackfeet claims to Congress and Chairman Old Person told the Senators the Blackfeet Indians were not interested in recovering their family allotments. Yet it was Joe Bear Medicine and Willie Running Crane who asked us to help the Blackfeet with the forced patents and the white man robbing their lands. Do you see the difference between "chief" Old Person and the "white-oriented" Indians running the schools? Earl wants to be white like the rest of his minions in the tribal council who do not support tribal treaty rights and the Blackfeet claims, and the Glacier County Commissioners and the state senator who are weakening our treaty rights to be free of white rule and to get our stolen lands returned from the white men. There is no such a thing as "Glacier County" except on the eastern border of the reservation, it is all Blackfeet lands. Keep it in your minds that you are treaty Indians unique in the United States, and try to educate yourselves on your treaty rights so you won't grow

up ignorant and "white-oriented" like chief Old Person and the "white-oriented" Indian politicians who are selling out our treaty rights for the honor of being accepted by the white man. The reservation is the white man's cow pasture, the Indians virtual prisoners of state laws, no control over his property, cut off from economic opportunities available to white men, and imprisoned in the welfare state. It was all planned out long ago by Joe Sherburne and the agency ring, a criminal conspiracy who robbed grandma of her land and oil wells, and severed her title in Glacier County court house. Our Blackfeet history book will set the record straight of genocide practiced against the Piegans who were defending their lands against the Montana Territory border-whites, and the crooked government employees and politicians who helped to rob the Indians in Congress, violence against helpless small pox victims, killing of Heavy Runner's band by drunken army soldiers and Montana militia, burning the women, children and elders alive in their beds, the appalling conditions of health, alcohol, and starvation, the mis-education of Indian children in public schools by white racist teachers, the drop-out rate of 50%, the lies about Indians in history books, denying the Indian an honorable past, the refusal to see the Indians as human beings, the tricks of white legislators in taking Indian property by introducing bills in Congress to enrich their constituents, constant disappointments, indifference of the Montana Senators and state legislature of Indian problems, cutting welfare funds and health services to reservation/counties, and forever awaiting the promises of America for a better life under the constitution and treaty. And now, to think, chief Old Person wants to be like the white man and his minions on the tribal council too! And, the brown faces in county government fighting against Blackfeet Treaty Rights, that is "white-oriented" kool-aid too. Think Blackfeet! Bob J.