"The Montana Territory newspaper, Fort Benton Weekly Record, criticized Agent Young for claiming the Indians were starving. Agent Young argued the paper was merely the spokesmen for the Choteau County Stock Growers Association, whose members were trying to get the reservation reduced once again for increasing grazing lands for their cattle herds. Agent Young responded to the Texas cattle kings criticism's, "The Benton Record, in the interest of the Choteau County Stock Growers Association, is constantly abusing the agent, publishing anonymous attacks and stirring up dissatisfaction among the Indians, all for the purpose of getting the government to again take a slice off the reservation and thus increase their stock ranges. It is more than six years since the last curtailment was made and now there is a strong effort for a further grab of Indian lands for the benefit of stockmen."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.32
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