Friday, February 27, 2015

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.151-152

He is delighted to find himself the center of interest, a special entertainer is at his side chanting soothing bits of rhyme, bits of old Indians legends. A musical band of small boys would furnish music and song, what could be more perfect than a picnic like this. The next day a trip through Glacier National Park would complete the tour of inspection. What an inchanting time he has had. Why the Blackfeets are well off, they live in a beautiful land, who can be hungry with so much beautiful scenery to gaze upon? Marvelous! And he reports the same to Washington. The Great Falls Tribune take it up and tells how well we are prospering under Campbell’s Five-Year Program. Inspectors like this are no good. What is needed is an intelligent, practical man, who can herd sheep a year for the big companies. He would find out lots of things along the lines I have written, an Inspector incognito. Another feature of the Program about this time was the framing of innocent people in the courts. If the Fryes wanted a valuable piece of land and the owner refused to lease or sell, that person would be framed to get him into legal difficulty. He’d hire a lawyer to defend him and after the case is over, the land would be attached for legal debts, and the Fryes would step in and buy it for a small sum. Many were sent to the penitentiary on flimsy pretexts. Some of us sensed that a secret prosecutor existed, but it took us quite a while to figure out that this was part of the Program-it kept the public eye off the main issue.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.151-152 

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