The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.118

The effects of a starvation diet upon these Indians and the fact that they have been starved in the past and are still being starved has been called to the attention of this Commission and to the Indian Bureau many times in the past, and that starvation is the primary though indirect cause of many deaths among them. One of the Government employees, a white man, informed me that their condition was so pitiful and they were so helpless that he spent half his wages in buying provisions for them. Upon inquiry I was informed by some Indians that the superintendent had never visited their homes to investigate their conditions of living, and not more often than once a year had he even ridden through the country in which they lived. Many little children are wearing old and worn out shoes, and their bare feet were to be seen through the holes in them. Some shoes had only a part of a sole upon them. It is difficult to ascertain facts in regard to many abuses for the reason that the Indians fear that they will be subjected to cruel treatment if they dare to make such complaints. They claim that they are afterwards blacklisted and discriminated against by the officials over them if they do so. These poor fellows are trying to make Congress understand their condition.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.118