"But does anyone suppose that these cattle will be safe in this vicinity while these Indians are starving? At the same time the cowboys do not hesitate to use arms in protecting the cattle. How long will it be before these Indians will begin to retaliate by arms and we will have another Indian war?" "Agent Young reported, "Complaints of Stock Growers Association against Indians, who they state, had set prairie fires. Absolutely untrue; the Stockmen are prone to lay all their losses from any cause at the door of the Indians, while its conceded the Indians are not spotless characters, yet some proof should accompany the charges. No white settlement on reservation, requests that application for children from Agency to attend St. Peter's Mission to be denied because Mission is 110 miles from Agency, parents going back and forth to visit might make trouble with white settlers, no children would willingly leave parents. Agent's authority was openly flaunted in abduction of boys. I have no confidence in these missionaries, nor have I seen any good resulting from their many years occasional visits to these tribes. None of the heathenish practices abated, no civilization in any shape taught. There is one of these Rev. Fathers on Birch Creek and he has so frequently been brought to my notice as the author of false statements to the Indians tending to make them dissatisfied with the management here. Estimate 500-600 rifles among Indians-Henry rifles, no ammunition."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.37
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