In response to the current article on Blackfeet water compacts with the state I would have to say $14.5 million is peanuts for our water. We have accumulated interest on fee land that far exceeds the amount we are being offered for our vital resource. A pattern of resource exploitation has existed since the begining of relations with the whiteman.
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