The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.129-130

The vulnerable and exploited Indians were the full bloods who had already been forced to eat their cattle herds to avoid starvation, and as early as 1918 Superintendent Wilson reported that the half bloods and border-whites owned 97% of the cattle on the reservation. The Indians were once again dependent on the government after being successful cattle men in 1896 and just two years before had owned large herds of cattle.

The new Blackfeet Agency Superintendent F.C. Campbell moved to bring the Indians to self-support through farming and sheep despite already losing over one million dollars of the tribal funds on failed irrigation projects with only 309 acres under cultivation. Nobody, it seemed, could run a successful farm on the reservation, not even the white experts entrusted by the Indian Office to run “demonstration” farms. The canals were rapidly deteriorating, the Indians had been unable to plant much in the first year of his five year farming program, and in the winter the Indians were starving again, but Campbell insisted farming would be a success. Special Supervisor F.E. Brandon inspected the reservation and recommended support for Campbell’s farm program, but he felt the reservation was still stock country.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.129-130