Friday, February 13, 2015

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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