The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.82-83

The new Agent, Captain J.Z, Dare, an Army Officer arrived at the Blackfeet Agency in March of 1905, and continued to issue permits to white cattle men despite protests from the Indians, who were also required to pay a grazing fee on their own reserved grazing tracts. Another Inspector arrived at the agency, Arthur Tinker, who claimed “he did not meet a single Piegan he would hire for an agency position currently filled by white men” and he oddly recommended the Blackfeet cattlemen place greater emphasis on developing the horse industry rather than their cattle industry.

George Bird Grinnell intervened on behalf of the Piegan cattle men and got the Indian Office to drop the grazing permit payment for cattle bearing the Indians brand. Montana cattlemen introduced Bills in Congress through Montana Senators to open up the reservation to white settlement, and got a bill passed depriving the Blackfeet of all their water rights, which bill was vetoed by President Teddy Roosevelt.

Agent Dare was running out of Blackfeet Treaty Funds and inquired of the Indian Office if there were any outstanding claims against the U.S. Government, “as there remained a tradition among the Indians that the government owed the Blackfeet a large sum of money.” The Indian Office recommended the Indians forget the past and pointed out “a careful examination of the treaties and agreements revealed no claims which would be paid by Congress.” They summed up the attitude of the Interior Department, “The Office desires you to impress the Indians with the fact that their habit of looking back to some ancient claim with a view of obtaining some benefit from the Government is not in harmony with their present condition. The time is at hand when they must seek to take advantage of their present opportunities rather than try to obtain something by pressing an imaginary claim against the Government.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.82-83