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NOTE: When we refer to the “Tribe” in any of our articles, such reference is intended to be the CSKT tribal government corporation, and not individual Indians or tribal members. With the exception of their membership in the tribe we consider tribal members to be separate and distinct from their tribal government, as are we from our own very corrupt government entities.
Just about the time we began investigating the CSKT Water Compact we were seeing “news” stories that the United Nations was pressuring the United States government to return sacred Sioux lands in the Black Hills of South Dakota to the tribes. Such an act was sold as a “step towards addressing systemic discrimination against Native Americans that continues to this day”.
The Flathead Water Compact has all of the earmarks of a similar restoration of lands to the CSKT, via ownership and control over water.
We say this with certainty because the abstracts of water rights in the appendices of the compact show that not one drop of water was earmarked for the domestic, municipal, or industrial uses of water for the CSKT membership. Instead of being for the needs of the Indian people, the water demanded by the tribes and awarded to them in the compact is designated for the purpose of protecting fisheries and wildlife.
The abstracts also show that the tribe was awarded the use of 2 1/2 times more water than exists in western Montana, most of which carries a time immemorial priority date that no one else, can compete with.
Let us be blunt. The Flathead Compact has nothing to do with the needs of the Indian people or protecting the tribes’ right to hunt and fish in common with the citizens of the territory.
Instead, it has everything to do with the eventual restoration of the tribes ceded lands back to them. By controlling the water use of the 400,000 people living in western Montana, including about 5,000 CSKT tribal members, the tribe will be able to control all future growth and development.
For example, with the Flathead Reservation’s historical boundaries, the compact gives the tribe control over the approval of all existing and future uses of water. On the other side of the “development” coin, the tribe also has the ability to agree to the development of a crypto currency data center requiring vast and unknown quantities of water, also sucking up hydropower resources to the financial detriment of everyone else.
There are no provisions in the compact for any oversight over the tribe concerning the water that they will use or control. This fact alone tells us that the state of Montana knows that it gave the tribe ownership of most if not all of the water in the compact.
Anyone living outside of reservation boundaries in the Kalispell area, or living anywhere close to Flathead Lake would be naive if they didn’t understand that once the compact claims are being fully enforced, the tribe will assert control over their water as well by objecting to all new uses of water because of the affect it will have on the tribe’s water rights downstream.
It may not be in our lifetimes, but we can guarantee that within a generation or two, much of the land within western Montana will be returned to the tribes via the tribe’s enforcement of the compact. Additionally more land will be purchased for the tribes by Bonneville power under phony “mitigation” funding, or the USDA Forest Service via “Legacy funding” for the purchase of lands as well as the conversion of millions of acres of land to conservation easements for the purpose of restricting their productivity into perpetuity.
We would be remiss if we didn’t also mention that the DNRC and MFWP of the state of Montana have partnered with the United States and CSKT for these programs and as many others that federal money can buy. See: Is Montana Being Federalized via Land Acquisitions and Conservation Easements?
As the land transfer provisions in the Daines compact legislation demonstrate, there is nothing to stop the state or the feds from transferring ownership of other lands purchased or already owned by them to the tribe via the creation of another lucrative damages “settlement” or some other invented excuse.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UNDRIP is an acronym for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In 2007, the UN published its declaration pertaining to such rights.
Since then the nations of the world have hopped on board and have passed laws for the purpose of protecting the rights of their “indigenous” populations, A simple search on the internet shows that a multitude of countries have picked up this ball and are running with it. Many have passed legislation to effectuate the goals of this United Nations program. Many “first people” tribes around the world are actively participating in the implementation of these goals and objectives.
While thousands of pro-tribal articles about this issue abound on the internet, here are a few articles pertaining to the United State’s efforts on behalf of the tribe.
- 2017 Native Americans won a vital battle in the UN 40 years ago – they need help again
- 2021 Interior Department Takes Steps to Restore Tribal Homelands, Empower Tribal Governments to Better Manage Indian Lands
- 2021 White House: Building a New Era of Nation to Nation Engagement
- 2021 How Returning Lands to Native Americans is Helping Protect Nature
- USAID from the American People (thank you George W. Bush) Policy on Promoting the Rights of Indigenous People
- Trust for Public Lands: we’re working to restore lands to tribal and indigenous communities
USAID has an indigenous peoples working group that according to its website:
The USAID Indigenous Peoples Working Group is composed of technical experts across the Agency who have worked with Indigenous Peoples on best practices for working with USAID and addressing Indigenous Peoples’ disparate development needs. Our sectoral focus areas include democracy, human rights, and governance; land tenure; natural resource management; food security; education; economic growth; infrastructure; and others. We help ensure that USAID’s development strategies and programs respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights and that USAID works with Indigenous Peoples as partners toward the joint goals of improving the impact and sustainability of development.
Adding to all this, sleazy politicians such as Steve Daines are on the same bandwagon and continue to work diligently with tribes to assist them with their goal of not only asserting control over their ceded lands, but paying tribes for the “management” of these lands via federal 638 self determination contracts.
For more information check these links related to S.3014, introduced by Steve Daines in 2016.
- Montana Congressional Delegation Playing with Fire
National Implications of the CSKT Compact: Forests and Range Lands at Risk - More on S.3014: Daines Press Release 05/27/16
While the Daines bill was never ratified, Congress has continued to submit similar legislation in more recent legislative sessions. It is only a matter of time before Steve’s strategy succeeds.
We also can see that the goals of Agenda 21 also known as Agenda 2030 are being merged with the UNDRIP initiative:
Drip, Drip, Drip
What is that saying by communists that you should never let an opportunity go to waste?
When a void is created it must be filled with some sort of policy, law or plan to restrict and undermine our freedom and constitutional protections.
It has become apparent that misguided and harmful federal Indian Policy has left such a void that our corrupt government and the NGO’s they have partnered up with, and even our own state of Montana are more than happy to fill.
Our triumvirate of governments, Federal, State and Tribal have proven time and time again that throwing billions of federal dollars to tribal governments has done nothing to improve the lives of the individual CSKT tribal members that they claim they want to “protect”.
Instead it is their racist policies that are being projected upon the American people who simply want for themselves and their neighbors all of the benefits and risks associated with American citizenship and true self-determination.
As we have discussed in this blog many times, the only way to truly address Federal Indian Policy discrimination against Native Americans is to set them free by eliminating the federal corporations that define their communist system of governance.
This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the 1924 Indian Citizenship act.
The time has come to eliminate federal supervision over tribes.
Such a statement is not meant to disparage their heritage, identity or culture in any way. It is meant to help individual tribal members free themselves from the chains of their communist government. It is those very chains that prevent them from enjoying the same rights and constitutional protections of all other American citizens.
For the political elite, protecting the “Native American People” is a means to a very different kind of end.
The only people that will benefit from UNDRIP are the globalists who understand that the goal isn’t to help the Native American people, but rather to effectuate a massive transfer of wealth by undermining the private property and the constitutional protections of the rest of the people, and ultimately devolving them to complete dependence upon an all benevolent new world government.
In other words we will all have nothing and the new world government will be happy at last.
Thanks to a friend for sharing this podcast about Canada on UNDRIP steroids.
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