Indians are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill pg.92-93

As the historian Patricia Nelson Limerick frames it: "Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of Indians, let intermarriage proceed as it has for centuries, and eventually Indians will be defined out of existence.

Cherokee demographer Russell Thornton estimates that, given continued imposition of purely racial definitions, Native America as a whole will have disappeared by the year 2080.

-Indians are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill pg.92-93

James Axtell, Francis Jennings, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rupert Costo, and Thomas Bailey Quotes

To understand the making of Anglo-America is impossible without close and sustained attention to its indigenous predecessors, allies, and nemeses.
-James Axtell

The invaders also anticipated, correctly, that other Europeans would question the morality of their enterprise. They therefore [prepared]...quantities of propaganda to overpower their own countrymen's scruples. The propaganda gradually took standard form as an ideology with conventional assumptions and semantics. We live with it still.
-Francis Jennings

Memory says, "I did that."Pride replies, "I could not have done that." Eventually, memory yields.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

There is not one Indian in the whole of this country who does not cringe in anguish and frustration because of these textbooks. There is not one Indian child who has not come home in shame and tears.

-Rupert Costo

Old myths never die-they just become embedded in the textbooks.

-Thomas Bailey

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Robert C. Juneau Glacier Reporter Letter to the Editor 9-23-15

Glacier Reporter Letter to the Editor
9-23-15

Robert C. Juneau   

To the Editor:  
I found a great quote in a book called 1776 by David McCullough.  In the book McCullough 

quotes from the play Cato by Joseph Addison which goes,"Tis not in mortals to command 

success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." I believe this quote applies very 

well to the B.E.A.R cause because no truly rational, logical mind can examine it and
say that it is not Just.   B.E.A.R  will succeed but even if it does not future Historians
and Anthropologists will say that B.E.A.R was on the right side of History.  The Enrolled
Blackfeet who have not yet signed the B.E.A.R Petition have a opportunity that does come 

along often in the History of a Tribal Nation.  If you asked most people today who count
themselves as Patriotic Americans' do they wished they had an ancestor that had been a
signer of The Declaration of Independence.  The answer would be yes.  However most people today do not know that when the American Revolutionary War was happening only one-third of the population was actually on the side of the Patriots.  One third was on the side of the Loyalists and the other third was sitting on the fence awaiting the outcome of the war.  The men who signed The Declaration of Independence were well aware that by doing so if they lost the war they would be hanged as traitors to the Crown, their property confiscated, and their families impoverished.  It was not the massively popular war that we believe it to be today with lots of money and support for the troops.  Many of the leaders of the Continental Congress like John Adams were worried that the Revolution was going to fail through most of it.  The troops had very little food or proper clothing for most of the war.  Some soldiers even had to walk barefoot, feet bleeding in the middle of winter because they had no shoes.  Native Americans' were among them from tribes like the Oneida and Tuscarora.  Polly Cooper, an Oneida Woman, brought wagon loads of white corn for starving Continental Soldiers to eat at Valley Forge in 1777. She taught them how to prepare and cook it.  When the Warriors that came with her left to go back home she 

stayed behind to take care of the sick soldiers and pass on knowledge of medicinal herbs and plants.  She refused any pay for her services so as a thank you some of the wives of the Continental Army Officers bought her a beautiful black shawl as a gift.  The Oneidas' still have it today.  The Founding Fathers also used Native American Tribes as examples of how Union and freely elected Democratic government can work.  So supporting a cause that a person believes in can sometimes come with a risk.  However had those men not taken that risk they would have had to submit to whatever the King wanted to do with them.  So neutrality only brings safety to those who had no belief in that cause in the first place while it does bring regret to those who did when the danger has passed and they did nothing to support it.  Choices are made by individuals everyday and collectively those choices can add up to a big impact on the world we leave behind to future generations of Blackfeet.  We should ask ourselves constantly what kind of world we want to leave to our future generations.  Do we want to leave them a world of poverty, pain, and suffering?  Or do we want to leave them a Blackfeet Nation where they can grow up happy?  Should B.E.A.R not succeed the Blackfeet will be in ruins by the year 2080 and our future generations landless and without Tribal government to represent them.  When that happens I think they will wonder why those who had the power to stop it with a mere signature on the B.E.A.R Petition and a vote for it in the Secretarial Election did not do so.  

To get a copy of the B.E.A.R Petition to sign you can call Deena McDonald at (406)450-3645 or contact B.E.A.R on Facebook at the Blackfeet Descendants Group or B.E.A.R.       

Robert C. Juneau Glacier Reporter Letter to the Editor 7-10-14

Glacier Reporter Letter to the Editor   

7-10-14

Robert C. Juneau   

To the Editor: 

I was reading a book recently called War Against The Weak

Eugenics And America’s Campaign To Create A Master

Race by Edwin Black and on pg.xvi-xvii it says,”Eventually,

America’s eugenic movement spread to Germany as well,

where it caught the fascination of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi

movement.  Under Hitler, eugenics careened beyond any

American eugenicist’s dream.  National Socialism transduced

America’s quest for a “superior Nordic race” into Hitler’s

drive for an “Aryan master race.” The Nazis were fond of

saying “National Socialism is nothing but applied biology,”

and in 1934 the Richmond Times-Dispatch quoted a prominent

American eugenicist as saying,”The Germans are beating us at

our own game.” Nazi eugenics quickly outpaced American

eugenics in both velocity and ferocity.  In the 1930s, Germany

assumed the lead in the international movement.  Hitler’s

eugenics was backed by brutal decrees, custom designed IBM

data processing machines, eugenical courts, mass sterilization

mills, concentration camps, and virulent biological anti-Semiticism-

all of which enjoyed the open approval of leading American

eugenicists and their institutions.  The cheering quieted, but only

reluctantly, when the United States entered the war in December

of 1941.  Then, out of sight of the world, Germany’s eugenic

warriors operated extermination centers.  Eventually, Germany’s

eugenic madness led to the Holocaust, the destruction of the

Gypsies, the rape of Poland and the decimation of all of Europe. 

But none of America’s far-reaching scientific racism would

have risen above ignorant rants without the backing of corporate

philanthropic largess.” Blood Quantum was created by Scientific

Racism.  The Nazis also believed in the concept of Blood Quantum. 

My father, Bob Juneau, Sr., told me when he attended school in

Browning, MT in the 1960s the Juinor High was segregated

according to Blood Quantum.  White, Half-Breed, and Full-Bood

students were categorized and put into different classrooms. 

White students were in Group 1.  Half-Breed students were in

Group 2, and Full-Blood students were in Group 3.  Scientific

Racism promotes the belief that those with the most white blood

are the most intelligent and that one racial group is and should

be treated as superior to another.  As a people, we the Blackfeet,

need to reject Scientific Racism and embrace our Blackfeet

Descendants as Full Members of the tribe with the same rights

And privileges as all other members of the tribe.  Many of the

Blackfeet Descendants are heirs to Blackfeet land and will

have to be Enrolled at some point in time.  Sooner is better

than later.  I encourage all of the Enrolled Blackfeet Members

to sign the Blackfeet Enrollment Amendment Reform (B.E.A.R)

Petition and let the issue come to a Secretarial Vote.  You can

get a copy of the Petition by contacting us at our group on

Facebook called Blackfeet Descendants Group or B.E.A.R

or by calling Deena McDonald at 406-450-3645.

Robert C. Juneau Glacier Reporter Letter to the Editor 3-6-14

To the Editor:  

I was reading an article recently in Indian Country Today entitled The Ugliness of Indian-on-Indian Racism from February 13, 2014 written by Dina Gilio-Whitaker who is a Freelance Writer and research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies in Olympia, Washington.  In the article she says,"The use of the term breed is of course predicated not on Native concepts of identity and belonging through kinship and relatedness  but on settler colonialism's construct of blood quantum.  It is no small irony that is the same racist logic of the Social Darwinists of the nineteenth century who equated higher Indian blood quantum with evolutionary inferiority, an ideology that justified the genocidal practices of the U.S. government and led to the massive land theft and assimilationist policies of the Dawes era.  Colonialism's legacy on Indian people is manifest in a multitude of ways on the political, institutional, and personal levels.  The psychological ramifications are legion as evidenced by a well established body of literature on postcolonial psychology and intergenerational posttraumatic stress disorder.  Among the effects are internalized 

oppression characterized on the individual level by self-hatred, often surfacing as violence within the oppressed group.  Violence is closely associated with mental illness.  Another way of linking these concepts is to say that colonialism is responsible for the bulk of what shows up as mental illness in Indian Country.  But violence can take other forms not limited to physical acts.  Racism is a form of psychological violence when perpetrated by anyone.  When Indians exhibit intra-cultural racism it is an exercise of internalized oppression, i.e. self-hatred, outwardly directed.  It is the manifestation of a colonized mind." The Blackfeet need to get rid of Blood Quantum as an Enrollment Criteria.  It is immoral because it denies the vote and the right to run for office to the Blackfeet Descendants.  It is impractical because it divides the tribe and will cause it to go extinct by the year 2080.  The way to avoid this is for the Enrolled Blackfeet Tribal Members who have not already done so to sign the Blackfeet Enrollment Amendment Reform (B.E.A.R) Petition and 

let the tribe vote on the issue.  There is a webpage on Facebook called Blackfeet Descendants Group where members of B.E.A.R can be contacted for a copy of the petition.  In closing Dina says in her article,"Colonization is a mental prison that draws no boundaries based on blood quantum.  Full or mixed blood, we have all been affected.  The common ground we share is the history of our families having been ripped apart, our languages stolen and our cultures violently disrupted.  When we judge each other based on our genetics all we do is keep ourselves trapped in a prison of someone else's making.  And what is that if not a form of insanity?"  

Robert C. Juneau Glacier Reporter Letter to the Editor 1-30-14

Glacier Reporter Letter to the Editor  
1-30-14

Robert C. Juneau  

To the Editor:  

I was reading a book recently called Montana Before History 11,000 years of 

Hunter Gatherers in the Rockies and Plains by University of Montana Anthropology 

Professor Douglas H. MacDonald and on page 155 it says," Ethnographic, linguistic, 

and archaeological data support Blackfeet presence in northwestern Montana for 

at least 2,000 years.  Blackfeet origin stories point to an eastern origin within the last 

2,000 years, and the Blackfeet language is similar to Algonquian dialects found in 

the northern Midwest.  Archaeological sites may indicate even longer-term residence 

in northwest Montana and nearby areas, possibly extending back 3,000 years or more.  

For example, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Southern Alberta shows a sequence 

of occupations beginning in the Archaic period and continuing well into the Late Prehistoric 

period.  Nevertheless, it is conceivable that the earliest Archaic occupations are associated 

with some other tribe, such as the ancestral Salish or Kootenai, and that the Blackfeet 

arrived during the Late Prehistoric period." The Blackfeet have a rich and ancient History 

on the ground where they currently reside which dates back to the rise of the Roman 

Empire.  The myth about our History and culture is that it is static and unchanging.  

I learned in the Anthropology classes that I took at the University of Montana that all 

cultures are dynamic and always changing in order to survive.  The Blackfeet began 

hunting Buffalo in large groups on foot and using dogs with travois to transport their 

shelter and belongings.  Then the horse arrived in America and the Blackfeet adopted 

both the horse and the rifle for hunting, self-defense, and warfare.  They studied their 

environment discovering new plants for medicine and using the stars for navigation at 

night.  Then when the Blackfeet could no longer live off hunting the Buffalo they had to 

adapt again to life under a dominant Anglo-American culture by becoming Farmers and 

Ranchers.  Becoming so good at Ranching Businessmen came all the way from Chicago, 

Illinois to buy the Blackfeets' beef.  Very few indigenous peoples in the History of the world 

have accomplished that kind of a transition from a Native culture to survival and adaptation 

in the face of a different economy and culture.  The Blackfeet Language has also changed 

to include things that did not exist prior to the beginning of the Reservation like radio and 

television.  The Blackfeet have always adopted the best technology and ways of living while 

retaining a core culture so why not adopt a Enrollment Criteria that works the best for all of 

the people?  A Enrollment Criteria that will include all of the Blackfeet Descendants and 

provide a means for tribal members to marry whoever they want Native or Non-Native and 

still be able to get their children enrolled.  Blood Quantum does not exist and will not work 

for our people as a Enrollment Criteria.  I believe signing the B.E.A.R petition is the way 

to do this and I encourage all Blackfeet Enrolled Members to sign it.  There is a Blackfeet 

Enrollment Amendment Reform (B.E.A.R) page on Facebook for those who need to 

contact us.