The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.134
I was in Glacier
Park and the Blackfeet reservation all
of last summer, and this I know; in a speech in Spokane, Cato Sells stated that he would have
Superintendent Lipps at once make such an investigation, but he never did it.
To my certain knowledge, some of the members of the tribe were in such
destitute circumstances then. For instance, my one time father-in-law, Yellow
Wolf, seventy years of age, blind, and with a family of five, was without food
the greater part of the time, the rations that he drew for fourteen days never
lasting more than four days. I made a point of going to the Government
warehouse one ration day, and myself saw that the rations doled out to the few
families that had tickets, could not possibly last any of them more than five
days, which would leave them nine days to starve. Moreover, the bacon given out
was not fit for a dog to eat; it was so rotten that it made a stench in the
great building. I at once arranged with a trader to give Yellow Wolf, and
others for me, each $4 per week with which to buy food. Later on, some of us
here, and other friends of the tribe in the East, contributed to the Blackfeet
Indian relief fund, which we opened in the Stockmen’s State Bank, Browning,
Montana.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.134
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