"Agent Wright reported "Soon after my arrival at Fort Benton and on the 18th day of September, 1866, there was seen on the opposite bank of the Missouri River a party of elevan paiegan Indians, desirous of crossing over to the Benton side, whereupon a body of some twenty whites, residents of Fort Benton, and returning miners to the States, ran up to the bend of the river, and as the Indians touched the shore, these men fired into them, wounding some three of them, and killing one. The balance of the Indians, with the wounded, ran back to the opposite shore, leaving the dead one in the hands of the whites, who immediately scalped him. It seemed impossible to remonstrate against such conduct. It was claimed for defense that, under the treaty of 1865, entered into on the part of the government by the late lamented Montana Governor Thomas Francis Meagher, Judge Munson, and my predecessor, the honorable deceased Gad E. Upson, there was a verbal agreement between themselves and the [Blackfeet] Chiefs that no war party, either going to or coming from the war, should come near Fort Benton."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.11
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