"Father Prando recalled: "My first Christian convert was a medicine woman, advanced in years, very skilled in the use of herbs and roots as remedies-almost too skilled. Yet, she freely renounced all dealings that she might have had with the evil one before her baptism. Just before the pouring of the water, when I was stretching out my hand to place it on her head, she began to tremble from head to foot with great terror. After Baptism she became tranquil in body and her face was very calm."
Lt. Col. Alfred Sully, U.S. Army Superintendent of Indian Affairs, reported on August 3, 1869 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, "Sir: I feel it my duty to report to you that I fear before long we may have serious difficulties between Indians and whites in this Territory and I would urge upon you the necessity of applying for an immediate increase of military force in Montana to prevent this. There is no section of the country that has more Indians in it than Montana, taking into consideration those who permanently reside here and those who visit the Territory peaceably or with hostile intentions."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.16
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