The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.119
The next morning McFatridge, with the agency
police, took the Blackfeet Chiefs, Wolf Plume and Young Man Chief, back to the
agency, where he held them in custody in the agency jail and under the guard of
the agency police; that Oliver Sanderville and I were left to the deputy
sheriff who did not bother us any longer. Before this arrest; on the 28th
of January, 1913, Oliver Sanderville, Young Man Chief, and Wolf Plume and I
were at the train station at Browning, which is on the reservation, ready to
take the train when a policeman came and told us we could not go. We had to
obey him and he called McFatridge upon the phone. Then another policeman came
and told us we could not go, that we were under arrest. I then stepped to the
phone and asked McFatridge what he meant, and if we were under arrest by the
policemen he had sent. He said we were. We were held at the office by McFatridge
and his police until after the train had passed. He told us repeatedly “You
fellows can’t go; I won’t let you go.” Wolf
Plume, who is the Blackfeet Chief, sold his cattle and provided credit at the
stores to meet their necessities. He wished to go to Washington to tell of the condition of his
people, how poor they were, and what their necessities were and how he would,
in a time, be poor also if his people were not given an opportunity for
something. This man has given of his means for the care of his people, and
wished at his own expense to tell the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the
Joint Commission of Congress what their condition was.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.119
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