The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.58

The railway will run through the Blackfeet lands for about fifty miles, and as the route follows up Willow Creek, it will take some of the best farming lands on the reservation. The Blackfeet reservation lies in the arid belt, and, except in the lowest bottom lands of the valleys, no crops can be raised without irrigation. Hay land and farming land is doubly valuable by reason of its scarcity, and to-day not less than fifty Indians are cutting and putting up hay on Willow Creek. Moreover, a number of families have located their homes on this stream, and are now struggling in a way that any other people would be called heroic to master the problem of earning a living. If this road goes up Willow Creek, as it will, these homes will be confiscated. For all this these Indians should be paid. These and other Indians have had a bitter experience in making verbal contracts with corporations, and instances are numerous where tribes have leased their lands to cattle companies for grazing purposes on the faith of promises that they should be paid so much a head for the cattle put on the reservation, and then have in vain tried to collect what was due them. The Indian cannot sue or be sued; he can only grumble. The Government does not collect his debts for him.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.58