The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.116

Senator Lane testified in Congress in 1915 to the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs, Washington D.C. that: “With me it has been merely a matter of securing justice for a class of people whose affairs were, in a measure, intrusted to me to take care of for them. A while ago the Senator from Montana implied that the effort on the part of the Senators from other States to correct this was intended as a personal affront to him. The lands of the Seville unit are no doubt the most valuable of any on the reservation and could be made the basis for the self-support of many of the Blackfeet Indians for a long time to come if properly and wisely managed with that sole object in view. As it now is, however, the Indians can not use them and they do them no good, and because they do not use them their nonuse is used as an argument to secure the consent of Congress to sell them to white people. There has been expended up to October 31, 1914, the sum of $942,413.58 on the Blackfeet Reservation Irrigation project out of the tribal funds, and it has been estimated by the Reclamation Service that $2,000,000 additional will be required to complete this irrigation project. The benefits derived by the Indians from this large expenditure of money have been practically nil.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.116