The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.42

Father Prando wrote "The injustice of the white man is the cause of the suffering among the Indians." He could not bear to hear the incessant cries of the babies and children for food, which he had not the power to supply, "We pen up these helpless Indians on gameless reservations and bid them live on their arid plains, whose boundaries they are forbidden to cross." In the summer of 1881 Father Prando wrote:  "The Blackfeet are sunk in want and misery, and, in my opinion, they will have trouble getting through the winter without dying of hunger." He wrote in February, 1884:  "There was so much talk and so much noise in the newspapers about the deplorable condition of these poor creatures, but till now they received no help.  And this year the effects of the famine are making themselves felt so horribly and the savages are dying rapidly.  There is in addition a contagious sickness called erysipelas, which makes the throat and face swell up and in four or five days they die.  There have been about twenty cases at this place.  And between those that die of hunger and those who die of erysipelas, each day there is someone dead, some days there are as many as four.  One would have to have a heart of stone, or none at all, not to have compassion on them in entering their dwellings.  Indeed, we can say that two-thirds of the tribe are diseased now.  What a pity it is to see little boys and girls, with their small faces pale and emaciated, with languid eyes, and at an age when they should be happy, experiencing sorrow and consumption.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau    
pg.42