"Official Government investigations indicated many of the hostilities were traced to corrupt Indian agents. One Indian agent bored out the weights for the scales used to apportion beef rations to the Indians and sold the meat thus gained to the agency trader. This agent later became a United States Senator. Congressional investigations turned out to be whitewashes, while Texas cattle kings, Fort Benton merchants and Indian agents cheated Indians of their grazing lands, treaty annuities and land cession funds. President Grant's Peace Policy of "civilizing by Christianizing" the Indians resulted in complete loss of public confidence in Indian Service Administration, and his peace policy was completely discredited, nullified by incompetency, corruption and public distrust."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.11
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