The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.117

That is what has become of the cattle of the Blackfeet Indians. They are eating one another’s cattle and many are poor because they have been feeding their starving friends. Helen Clark, the well known Blackfoot woman, well educated, one of the finest women anywhere, told me that she had about forty head of cattle left, and in two years she would have none because she was feeding them to her fellow tribesmen who were starving. She could not bear to see them go that way while she had a hoof left. It takes a good woman to do that. What an example for us! I have resisted these things; I have fought against them, and because I have fought against them, I have brought down upon myself the insulting letter from the mixed-blood parasites on the full-bloods; which was put in here today by the Senator from Montana; but I say unto you now that as long as I stay in the Senate I am going to keep on protesting every time there is an opportunity, without fear of God, man, or the devil, for I will not stand for that kind of game.”

Senator Walsh countered with (S. 5484): “I trust the Senator from Oregon does not entirely recall the act of 1907 passed now eight years ago provided for the opening of the entire Blackfeet Indian Reservation. It has been opened. This bill provides for the opening of only a small portion of the eastern end of the reservation [containing the irrigated lands, oil fields, and coal mines] of 156,000 acres to white settlement. It is unfair of the Senator from Oregon to come into our State, and to object on the floor of the Senate to legislation which is thus recommended by every Department of our State Government, the Senators from Montana and its people, and I appeal to the Senator to let us alone.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.117