"He estimated, "1,300 horses and several thousand buffalo robes were taken from Heavy Runner's band; the young men were on the hunt. Heavy Runner came forward to meet the soldiers, holding up his medals and his papers, and he was shot. I was present at the fight. I wanted my father's murderers. I did what I could to save life, but one could do little with soldiers after they had tasted blood. Heavy Runner was a wealthy and good man. He was a friend of the whites."
The whiskey trade
One of the original founders of the United States, Benjamin Franklin stated, "And indeed, if it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means. It has already annihilated all the tribes who formally inhabited the seacoast." In February 1869 the Special Agent reported to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Taylor: "I have reliable information from responsible men at Fort Benton and also from the new Blackfeet, Blood and Piegan Agencies that the whiskey trade is again being carried on among the Indians of that country, more extensively than ever, and that the Indians are becoming much more demoralized in consequence of it."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.18-19
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