"The consequence is these merchants are now completely out of liquor and the Indian is for the first time this winter perfectly sober. I have tried to prevent this whiskey trading to the Indians, but was powerless. The United States Deputy Marshall has been and now is a resident here and he has done nothing for me-as he was afraid if he made any arrests his customers would snub him in the spring when he opened his own whiskey saloon. The Sheriff and their officers have acted badly in not assisting me-and whether they did or did not trade any liquor to the Indians I am positive they sold whiskey during the winter in five and ten gallon kegs and half Bbls. by Wells Fargo and Col. Express. I could not fit a permanent Military Squad at this place as Col. Reeve said it would be establishing a Military Post and he had no authority to do so. Thus the position of the military in the absence of civil power to assist me is a perfect nuisance. They are only fit to eat government rations and lay around in Camp at government expenses and I say fairly and freely and candidly that under the circumstances it is providential there has been no massacres at this place from drunken Indians. I again call your Hon. Attention to the removal of this Agency from this place. It is too large to enforce law unless I am properly supported, and the government, I respectfully think, has no conception of the character and number of the inhabitants.
Blackfeet Agent, George B. Wright."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.21
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