The Blackfeet Indians have one of the strongest treaties in the United States, having signed what the Congress of the United States defines as a "negotiated treaty" a "bought and paid for reservation" meaning that we paid for our reservation with land cessions to the United States. The Blackfeet Indians are a "distinct political class" set apart from and above the State of Montana. The Blackfeet Indians have a direct federal-tribal delivery system to receive treaty obligation funds appropriated by the Congress. Indian monies generated from individual Indian trust property are administered by the executive branch, through the Interior Department and Bureau of Indian Affairs. The history presented here is white men, corporations, and the Territory and State of Montana have usurped Blackfeet land, money, resources and tribal sovereignty. The Indians tell the story in this book of how the Indians became the poorest in their own land. -from The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.4 amazon/dp/1482025965/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_YmBirb0MX2P9V
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