The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.106-107

Robert Hamilton whips McFatridge’s delegation

                                  

Robert Hamilton was selected by the people to go to Washington to represent the Blackfeet Tribe, but McFatridge wrote Commissioner Sells asking him to tell the Indians their delegation was not authorized. A month later McFatridge arranged a delegation of his own in a tribal meeting with the favored half-breeds Kennerly, Buck, Burd, Clarke and Perrine. Superintendent McFatridge informed the Indian Commissioner that the Blackfeet wanted to sell their un-allotted lands under the reclamation project which had cost the Indians nearly one million dollars of their land cession monies expended against their will, and he had arranged a meeting between his progressive half-breeds and the Commercial Clubs of border-towns in Cut Bank, Valier, Conrad, and Choteau, who were promoting the Indian surplus land sale in Congress through their senators.

The Blackfeet Indians elected Robert Hamilton, Oliver Sanderville, Young Man Chief, Black Weasel, and Wolf Plume for their delegation to Washington to protest the land sale. Superintendent McFatridge reported to the commissioner, “The whole thing on the face of it shows that Hamilton has undertaken to take advantage of these people and, no doubt, would have succeeded had it not been for the fact that a copy of these minutes came into my hands, and a protest was filed with me against such procedure. If the Office desires an expression of the entire tribe of Indians relative to this matter; and will notify me, I will be pleased to call a general council of the tribe to decide whether or not they wish a delegation sent to Washington, and, if so, to select a delegation that would consist of actual representatives of this tribe of Indians. I do not wish to be understood as taking exception to such men as Young Man Chief, Black Weasel, and Wolf Plume as representatives of the tribe, but to send these men to Washington with Robert Hamilton, as interpreter, would mean that Hamilton would be the one to represent the tribe. Past experience has taught, not only me, but the better class of people belonging to the Blackfeet Tribe that Hamilton is not an honest interpreter.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.106-107