The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.95-96

Robert Hamilton wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells while he was in Washington D.C.: “Sir: In the matter of the petition of the Blackfeet Indians signed by 123 persons, requesting that my accounts here be settled or paid by the tribe, and the protest alleged to have been signed by members of the Council to the number of less than 15, your attention is invited to the evident fact that the protest is a fabrication pure and simple. A comparison of these two instruments will disclose that the petition in my favor was actually signed, some by indelible pencil and some in ink, and all duly witnessed; while the protest shows clearly on its face that it was written and signed by the same ink and pen, and in its entirety in the same handwriting, including the signatures. On its face it is a forgery. This man, James A. Perrine, Secretary of the Council, is only a tool of the Agent, ever ready to do his bidding regardless of truth or fact. And in this connection it might be opportune to call the notice of the Honorable Commissioner to the fact that it was through the connivance of McFatridge and Perrine that a statement was gotten from several members of the tribe who had visited New York last winter, and who were never in Washington in their lives, or in the presence of the Secretary of the Interior, that I had misinterpreted their statements to the Secretary. Any papers emanating from McFatridge relating to myself, should be considered in the light of his extreme prejudice against me. Very respectfully, Robt. J. Hamilton.”

The Principal of the local Browning Public School, S.A. Selecman, was a man McFatridge had tried to run out of Browning because Selecman had physically beaten Leslie McFatridge, the superintendents son for threatening him. Selecman won his right in court to stay on as principal and teacher, but he complained to his contact with the President’s Secretary that McFatridge was still making life miserable for him and requested help: “I am somewhat up against it here because a few weeks ago it became necessary for me to whip the son of Supt. McFatridge of this reservation. This son of his was teaching in the Browning School as was I and suffice to say that I whipped him for good and sufficient cause and because that I had to do so to protect myself against bodily injury. This raised quite a little excitement here, especially when the young man’s father ordered me off the reservation and then put me off.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.95-96