Thursday, February 19, 2015

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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