[PEN-L:9498] A church incursion into Blackfoot territory

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

To Whom It May Concern: The following is quite long but it is important
enough for you to read. It concerns my having to take Aquinas College of
Grand Rapids, MI to court because they are putting claim to some property
that I own in the Blackfoot Nation of North America. This institution and
its employees and Indian followers are attempting to take a log building
away from me for reason known only to them. In this they have the
assistance of a white lawyer by the name of Epstein, who is also the
Glacier County Attorney.  Please read this and respond to me in any way you
desire.

I would ask that you pass this one world-wide, especially to the news media
and to native peoples and cultural rights groups world-wide.

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July 8, 1999

Mr. Judy Miller, Court Administrator
Blackfeet Tribal Court
Browning, Montana

To Whom It May Concern:

        This is to inform the court that I personally believe the motion by
Larry Epstein, attorney for Aquinas College of Grand Rapids, Michigan and
its personnel to be nothing more than a white racist response to avoid the
power and jurisdiction of the Blackfeet Tribal Court and the people of the
Blackfoot Nation.

       I am a busy man and I am trying to make a living but I have not had
the time to read the cases mentioned in the Epstein brief. Therefore I
respectfully request time to read the brief and investigate its meaning
with someone familiar with white man arguments about their not being
subject to the laws and traditions of the Indian people.

       It was/is my intention to represent myself Pro Se in this CASE NO.
99 CA.102.   But I am not fully aware of the arguments presented in the
Epstein brief and because my occupation is not that of a whiteman trained
attorney. I therefore I am not fully aware of their arguments in the matter
of who has jurisdiction (Indian or White) in such matters. . I only know
and believe them to be, as I said, a white supremacist attitude to get the
three whitemen named (Knopke, Lou and Denty) and their institution off the
hook, as the expression goes, by making the fools argument that a whiteman
and their institutions cannot get justice in a Blackfoot Indian court.

        I have to make the observation and state the obvious. I am a
Blackfoot Indian first and foremost, and, the agent (Denty) of these
whitemen and their institution knew full well we entered into a contractual
agreement that they were clearly dealing with a Blackfoot Indian and that
the place of business was within the Blackfoot (a.k.a. Blackfeet) Indian
Nation. Further, I wrote the contract for them and their attorney to review
before signing, and it clearly indicates they (it) were dealing with an
Indian within the Blackfoot Nation. Of this there is absolutely no doubt.
They knew I am an Indian living and doing business as an Indian within the
confines of the Blackfoot Nation. It is, in fact, known to the whiteman
Larry Epstein and his cohorts that I have NEVER and I mean NEVER have
passed myself off as whiteman. So, the answer to the obvious as well to
Epstein is I have NEVER attempted to pass Aquinas College and its obviously
white employees off as Indians.

        I can say without equivocation that I know Mike Denty to be a
whiteman, who was at one time a monk in the catholic faith. I knew him then
and now to be a whiteman. When I first met his companions in the army of
the Catholic Church I knew them immediately to be white and representatives
of a thoroughly catholic institution looking to educate its students in the
Blackfoot and other Indian cultures within our borders. In fact, Harry
Knopke was tauted to me to be a whiteman who at one time worked with or
among Indian people and that he was very anxious to get Aquinas students
educated in the Indian culture of today. This is the reason he did not
council waiting for the log building to be built so we could undertake a
"Semester in Montana" in 1999 instead of in the Fall of 1998 as we did.

        I ask the court to take note of the obvious facts of this case.
Aquinas College, via its officers, Knopke, Lou (after the fact of the
contract signing) and Denty knew full well that a building had to be built
to adequately meet expectations for housing students and conducting
classes, but Harry Knopke waived them. This is why the contract (written by
me) is written the way it is and is not a surprise to any of the Aquinas
officials, most especially Mike Denty, the ex-monk, and Harry Knopke,
formally and presently touted Indian expert, who read and approved the
contract written by me: Long Standing Bear Chief.

        One more obvious thing: Mr. Esptein knows my suit to be a civil
cause of action. The case is numbered with the letters CA in its numbering
system. Mr. Epstein, if he is indeed licensed to practice law in Blackfeet
Tribal Court, knows this and therefore knows I am not trying to bring a
criminal action against the Aquinas agents. It is also interesting to note
that prior to bringing my case before the court I asked Larry Epstein if
whitemen could be taken into Blackfeet Tribal Court. He asked me where
these people where from.  He then told me there was absolutely no question
that whites could be taken into a tribal court for trial in civil matters.
In fact he said it was such open and shut matter that I could represent
myself. But, alas and alack, my white brother Epstein is the kind of
whiteman who will argue anything if you are there first to put the coin of
the realm in his hands.

        As for removing this case to a white Montana Court is a ludicrous
suggestion. The State of Montana has no jurisdiction in this matter for
many reasons, among them being that Montana law functions within our
boarders based upon fraud and deceit. Witness the fact that our nation has
not given its consent to be a part of state government. Glacier County for
example exists by means of a monstrous hoax.

        Larry Epstein and any white attorney worth his salt ought to know
certain facts of history, to wit: (now quoting from the Organic Act of the
Territory of Montana of May 28, 1864) "Provided further, That nothing in
this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of persons or
property now pertaining to the Indians in said territory so long as such
right shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and
such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian
tribes,  is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within
the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any state or territory; but all
such territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no
part of the territory of Montana ,until said tribe shall signify their
assent to the President of the United States to be included within said
territory,  or to effect the authority of the government of the United
States to make any regulation respecting such Indians, their lands,
property, or other rights,  by treaty, law or otherwise, which it would
have been competent for the government to make if this act were never
passed." So, to quote the whiteman his own law, he don't got no such treaty
so he/she is without authority to take any Indian into their Montana Court
without out a treaty or without such Indians consent. Period.

        It is my request that the Blackfeet Tribal Court take what I have
just said into consideration and simply assume jurisdiction without further
delay. It is high time we Indians stop giving consideration to the
whiteman's foolish notions that he/she cannot get justice in our courts. In
fact Aquinas College and its followers and employees have done nothing to
prove that anything belongs to them that is located within our nations
boarders.  So the order should go out that they cease there foolishness and
stop trying to interfere in the life of honest Indian people who have done
them no harm in any way. The christian Aquinas College must be made to
realize that it and its minions have no authority to claim anything without
proof, namely a log building having been ordered built with money belonging
to me, Long Standing Bear Chief.

I thank the court for hearing me and allowing me to pursue this matter as
requested.

Sincerely yours,


Long Standing Bear Chief
P.O. Box 430
Browning, Montana 59417
406-338-2882

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P.S. I would further request that Epstein, and the follower and employees
of Aquinas College stop referring to me as Harold Gray. They DO NOT have my
permission to call me by any name except my real name. So, out of respect
for me and my culture, and indeed themselves, they should cease calling me
by a white name in their attempt to filter me through their white English,
christian culture.

I am real as Long Standing Bear Chief.




Louis Proyect

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