"By their removal there would be no occasion for hostility; each party could attend to their own business, for history and experience in this Territory have proven that the introduction of so many emigrants, having such a diversity of character and hatred towards the Indian, having rendered travel unsafe, and the highways of today are attractively different from those of yesterday. In this separation that I so earnestly urge (between white and Indian races) the government would be benefitted and all mankind could move on without meeting in any danger. I have just arrived home from the Flathead Agency, Montana Territory, while on my trip I was in the camps of the Kootenay, Pen d'Orielle, Flathead, Peigan-Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Ree and Crow, Mandan, and Arickaree tribes of Indians. I packed across the country from Hell Gate to Fort Benton, and thence took steamer for St. Louis, and did not see a hostile Indian during the entire trip. I saw and conversed with many persons who have been among the above-named tribes during the last six months and the Indians of Montana generally, and those residing along the Missouri river, were never behaving better than at present, than they have been for some time past, (say seven to nine months) and they are as a general thing peaceably disposed toward our government."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.13-14
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