The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.158-159

You have a timber and lumber resource here that could be developed into quite a lumber industry. A pulp mill could be developed on this reservation. There is no telling what natural resources you have in the foothills of the mountains that with proper and systematic mining could be developed. You have farming that could be developed on a vast scale. Still comparing with the King Ranch, they had two things to build on, ranching and oil and gas. You have natural resources and minerals. You have farming and timber, five or six known things you can do that the King ranch will never be able to do.

I am trying to show you the vast development you can do. It would take a great amount of work to even develop one of those phases if done on the scale it should be done on. It is a great enterprise in itself. What I want to say and boil it down to is that you have unlimited possibilities in natural resources on this reservation. I understand that the Government is trying to put more or less a squeeze play on the Indians and take this away from you one way or another. It would be a terrible tragedy for the Indians to lose what, in my opinion, is a financial empire to be developed here. To give you some idea of the problem. When I was first speaking of this in Houston, of this Indian reservation, I got it into my head that the Indian tribe owned all of the surface and a certain percent of the minerals. The rest is patented land which will greatly complicate the development. In other words, it is going to be a problem of reassembling it and bringing it together before you can get into the developing of it. I understand that the tribe would like to reacquire some of the lands in the south part of the reservation.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.158-159