"The Indians killed mission cattle and then killed the mission herder near to the mission. Father Giorda was summoned from the mining camps where he had brought the word of Jesus Christ to the gold miners. He ordered the mission abandoned and other missions around the region. He wrote "During our short journey to the new place we saw several parties of Indians and whites on the warpath, and it was evident that whiskey had set their brains afire." Encroachment by hordes of Confederate gold miners and Texas cattle kings caused the Government to reduce the Piegan lands, and expend federal funds for Indian wars instigated by whites at Fort Benton; the merchants, politicians, cattlemen and Montana Militia's purpose in starting Indian wars."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.16
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