"Texas cattle kings, Montana politicians, Confederate-gold miners, and land speculators were among 30,000 emigrants who invaded Blackfoot Confederacy lands by 1870, which insured destruction of vast buffalo herds in a short period of twenty years of indiscriminate slaughter that placed the Indians at the mercy of the United States Government for every mouthful of food. The Blackfeet Indians were nearly destroyed.
Fort Benton, Montana Territory-killing & scalping Indians
Civilization and Christianity failed to stem the tide of genocide at Fort Benton, Montana Territory. Christian churches began frontier crusades to stamp out native religions, and Government agents and Montana politicians continued their graft and Indian genocide policies. In 1866 at Blackfeet Agency, Agent Wright detailed a series of unprovoked attacks by the Confederate gold miners against Blackfeet Indians urged the Federal Government to remove the Blackfeet Agency away from Fort Benton because the merchants robbed the Indian annuities and the miners murders made it impossible to distribute the Blackfoot treaty goods or for the Indians to meet with their agent."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.11
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