"In 1872 the Board of Indian Commissioners charged that the administration of Indian Affairs was corrupt: "Partnerships between agent and trader, or the contractors; receipting for supplies never delivered; overestimating the weight of cattle for the contractor; carrying false names on the rolls; carrying blank vouchers to be filled out with false sums; paying employees for whom there was no employment; reporting employees at higher or lower salary than provided for by law, and using the difference for other purposes; farming out the appointments controlled by the agents; using the annuity-goods for the agents or employees trading with the Indians, selling them for their own goods; selling annuity-goods to whites; conniving with others to swindle the Indians out of annuities after distribution; having Indian concubines and allowing similar to employees; and other abuses."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.9-10
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