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.