Monday, September 13, 2010

3 big reasons to contribute to the Blackfeet Forced Patents Claims Cause

3 big reasons to contribute to the Blackfeet Forced Patents Claims Cause
[NOT MANDATORY FOR ACCESS TO WEBSITE-EVERYONE IS WELCOME]

1.Further research on the Blackfeet Forced Land Patents.
2.Greater ability to put that research for you to read on the internet.
3.Gas money to get from Missoula to Browning [WE ARE BOTH ON WELFARE AND FOODSTAMPS IN MISSOULA] to lobby the Blackfeet Tribal Council on your behalf to get your land back.
I think No. 3 is the most important reason because past experience has taught me that convincing the Tribal Council to actually do this takes a lot personal expense, time and effort in chasing them around the Tribal Office. And then once you convince them you have to keep pursuing them in order to get them to do what they promised you they would do. Without someone to do this for you, you will never get your land back.
But it has to be done in order to convince the Tribal Council to make it priority. Gene Simmons once said anything worth doing takes time, effort, and money. I’ve got the time and effort to do this for you but I don’t have the money. So when you consider donating think about how much you want your land back and the payoff when the United States Government gives you back your grandma’s land and every dollar that was made off of that land from the date it was stolen [$300,000,000 estimated by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee lawyer, Peter Taylor, in 1980 when we brought the claims to Washington D.C]. There are mineral estates worth millions of dollars in oil money due to tribal members who are heirs to the original allottees. The Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs [BIA] testified to Congress that there are hundreds of allottees and thousands of heirs that are due past payments and land titles for these claims.
Most of all we need the full support and financial assistance of the tribal council or the claims will be killed just as surely as when Chairman Earl Old Person stonewalled the claims in 1980. So, we need small financial contributions from tribal members or anyone else who has a sense of justice and large funding from the tribal council to do this properly, as is representative of the past Blackfeet Chiefs and tribal council delegations.
Do not stop using the website if you cannot contribute, you are in good company with us; we understand poverty as well. Thank you in advance for your help. The bat signal is up in the sky, God bless you. We are trying to come to Browning in September.

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