The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.110

It is impossible to escape the conclusion that Mr. McFatridge has not dealt in an open straightforward manner with his superior officers. His interference with the process of State Courts was not an offense too serious to be overlooked, although his action in that respect can not be commended. A most serious feature of the matter is his evasion and misleading report to this Department evidencing a purpose to conceal the true situation. The Department is dependent to a large extent upon its field officers in regard to facts and conditions at distant points, and absolute reliability in such affairs is essential to intelligent and successful administration of Indian Affairs. Employees must measure up to the standard of official conduct.”

In 1914, Charles Davis, Supervisor of Farming at large for the Indian Office, charged that after all of the irrigation work at the Blackfeet Reservation and the expenditure of $900,552.26 of tribal funds there was not a single irrigated Indian acre under cultivation. Chairman Wolf Tail responded to the question of development of Indian farmers telling the Senators, “The major service the government could perform is to put a stop to the useless expenditures of thousands upon thousands of dollars of our money on the construction by the Reclamation Service of irrigating canals, etc. in the governments endeavor to make farmers out of a people who have no desire or inclination to become such, who are not fitted for it by nature and who were never consulted about their wishes in the matter, but have always been treated by the government as children, and who had well-defined ideas as to what they wanted or what was good for them.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.110