The Indian Office
advised Campbell that the Park Saddle Horse
Company, one of James J. Hills Great Northern Railroad subsidiaries was
trespassing on western reservation lands adjacent to Glacier Park
and was competing for grazing leases with the Indian stock owners. J.W.
Schultz, author of Indian tales, and former reservation prospector, now lived
in Los Angeles and Arizona on Blackfeet oral history sold to magazines
of western history; stories told him by Blackfeet warriors of their war
exploits. He now tried to sound the alarm of starving Blackfeet Indians under Campbell ’s Five Year
Program: “The Indian Bureau is all powerful; Congress will pass any bill that
it recommends. But it will not admit its failure with the Blackfeet and ask for
an appropriation to give them the relief they sorely need. Therefore, others
must provide it.”
In 1920 Campbell advised the
Indian Office that prospects for farming looked poor and admitted that many of
the white farmers were not renewing their leases. He indicated it was
impossible to explain to the full bloods that they must pay an annual sum to
defray the construction charges for their irrigable allotments [which the
Indians did not want] and as many were unable to pay, it became more difficult
to lease the irrigated lands to whites, who would not pay either.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.130
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.130
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