The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.122

The condition of the poverty stricken Indians was so apparent that the starvation and suffering of the Blackfeet Indians was visible to Jim Hill’s tourist train passengers traveling on the Great Northern Railroad through the reservation to vacation at Jim Hill’s hotels at the eastern entrance to Glacier National Park, which Blackfeet lands were given to Jim Hill by the Secretary of the Interior.  Tourists who drove through the reservation after World War 1 were confronted by the impoverished Blackfeet Indians attempting to sell buffalo bones and artifacts of their dying culture to the tourists, which Indian arts and crafts the Indian Office had outlawed in the United States Indian Assimilation Policy.

Many Glacier Park tourists protested the Indians condition upon their return home. Railroad Barons James J. Hill and his son Louis Hill found a profit in Blackfeet culture in the Indian dancing troupe he “hired” to perform for the Glacier Park tourists, who he paid by passing the hat among the tourists at his hotels, and feeding the Indian entertainers by scraping leftover food from the tourist’s dinner plates and feeding the table scraps to the Indian entertainers. He “adopted” the Blackfeet Indian dancers as his “Glacier Park Indians.” Glacier County commissioners requested the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to “get a highway across the reservation and into the Glacier National Park.” The Indians were expected to fund white businesses and provide markets for their products by usurping Indians individual funds, tribal sovereignty and 100 % federal funding for reservation infrastructure improvements which benefitted whites.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.122