"In 1873 a House of Representatives inquiry into the Indian Bureau concluded that "The Indian Service is absolutely blocked with thieves and scoundrels, whose bad conduct and effect on the Indians and Government go largely to produce a distrust and want of confidence upon the part of the people, and of Congress to act in and carefully consider Indian matters." Congress' Indian policy reforms did not remedy rascality on any level of federal or territorial government. General David S. Stanley testified that "a Catholic agent in his district had acquired a fortune approaching $40,000 during a comparatively short tenure at a stipulated salary of $1,500 a year."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.10
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