The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.59

The Great Northern Railway is pushing rapidly westward from the Assiniboine and before long will reach the border of the Blackfeet reserve. Before work is begun on that reservation the Indian Bureau ought to see that a contract is made by which the railway company shall bind itself and those working for it to pay the Indians for their land, and in part at least for the damage done to the reservation. The Indians may growl out here, but no one pays any attention to their grumbling, and their rights ought to be looked out for by the Government at Washington. The Great Northern Railway is probably not anxious to pay for the lands it takes from this reservation. If it can get them for nothing so much the better. No doubt if it could find a philanthropic mill owner who would roll its rails without charge, it would accept them. When the Great Northern buys rails, however, it pays for them, and so when it takes land that does not belong to the public domain it must pay for that land. It is reported here that this matter has already been brought to the attention of the Indian Department, but if this be true, nothing appears to be known of the matter by the people in this State who have the best opportunity of learning about it. If any action is to be taken it should be known to at once, for the Piegans are being uneasy and dissatisfied over the approach of the railroad. These people for two or three years have been working hard and are making fairly good progress toward civilization, but the two last seasons have been so dry that their crops have failed, and they are now on short rations since the supplies have all run out, and no appropriations had been made by Congress for their support during the coming year. Before long there is likely to be much actual suffering from hunger.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.59