The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.71-72

Blackfeet economic progress was retarded by government graft and party politics at the local, state, and national levels of government. The Indians attempted to build homes and establish a tribal cattle industry on their reserved treaty lands in an attempt to adapt to the new economic order of things after the buffalo were destroyed. The Blackfeet Indians were to be helped by the 1896 Agreement/Article Five land cession funds to develop the tribal stock raising economy in the tradition of American capitalism.

The Blackfeet Indian Reservation boundary between the ceded lands in the 1896 Agreement and the western reservation lands remains in question as Interior Department Engineers, N.E. Jenkins and A.F. Dunnington notified the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States that the survey of the boundary was impossible to complete due to heavy smoke from forest fires and the inability of the survey crew to ascend the tops of the mountains to complete the survey of the Boundary line of the 1896 Blackfeet Indian Cession. The creation of Glacier National Park in 1910 further complicated the boundary line as the National Park Service placed their monuments on the east slopes of the Rocky Mountains instead of the summit of the Rocky Mountains as agreed in the 1896 Agreement, thus placing approximately 43,000 acres of tribal lands within boundaries of Glacier National Park and the Lewis & Clark National Forest, which boundary lines followed the tracks of James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railroad.

Inspector Gould concluded that the Blackfeet Indians were worse off than convicted felons sentenced to a penitentiary with a corrupt warden; “But these Indians are not felons either. Their case is hard. The short years during which Congress has provided ample means for their equipment and training are fast passing. They know it. They feel that they are not sliding but being pushed towards a pit of helplessness. Their revenues are stolen, their rights are insolently disregarded, and even their feelings are needlessly wronged. And Secretary Vilas is personally responsible for this corruption and misrule.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.71-72