The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.40-41

Full rations of beef would require 1,259,250 lbs. rather than 250,000 lbs estimated.  There are about sixty lodges around or near agency, including those of the principle chiefs, the rest of the Indians having scattered to various points in search of berries.  The Indians continue to make their complaints that they are hungry and their children were dying; their physical condition is that of a slowly starving people, all of the people being very guant and thin, and in some cases, shockingly emaciated.  Scrofula prevails to a great extent among them, aggravated by a lack of nourishment and an unmistakable large number seems to be suffering from consumption.  In fact, their systems are so impoverished, that very slight hurts develop into serious complications.  Of the births and deaths, nothing at all is known, and the Department of the Interior is today totally ignorant of the numbers of Indians it pretends to care for and feed.  Dr. Gillette not to be reappointed; Indians have no confidence in him, lax in duties, does not seem to make any effort to find the sick and supplant the native medicine man; he does not keep himself well informed as to the physical conditions of the Indians as he should, many of them dying in the immediate vicinity of the stockade without his knowledge.  Last month the agency carpenter built 17 coffins, while Dr. Gillete reported only 6 deaths.  Many of the Indians are buried without coffins and sometimes two corpses are placed in one coffin.  The Indian deaths are estimated by agency employees as averaging one per day.  The Indians still prefer to dispose of their bodies by tying them in trees or placing them in high places, and the hills and ridges around the agency, "ghost ridge" are dotted with these ghastly objects.  It is supposed that one half of the deaths are indirectly recorded at the agency through the application for boxes in which to place the corpses.  In May, 1884, the agency carpenter made sixteen rough coffins for this purpose, some of the coffins contained two bodies, and once he made six in one day."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau    
pg.40-41