The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.162-163

The Blackfeet Irrigation project was coming back to haunt the Federal Reclamation Service because it was never completed and it was built with Blackfeet tribal funds, and it reserved the water rights for the Blackfeet Tribe.  The Blackfeet Tribe also had identified, and undeveloped hydro-power sites, irrigation projects, bottled water, food processing, beef and livestock products and world markets worth billions of dollars in all value. Chinese government buyers were in the tribal office a few years ago, called the Blackfeet their relatives, and offered to purchase any and all Blackfeet products.

Legal experts pointed out that on the Blackfeet .Indian Reservation it has been the history of the Justice Department to represent the claims of the Bureau of Reclamation, the State of Montana and white irrigators against the reserved water rights of the Blackfeet Indians on the Blackfeet reservation.  Blackfeet Indian water quantification is held to a higher standard than whites on the reservation living on the stolen lands of the Indians, or whites in the State of Montana.  The Departments of Justice and Interior under the Reagan administration and Secretary of the Interior James Watt worked to reduce the Blackfeet water rights claims by establishing new arbitrary and capricious water quantification criteria, developed to be used only upon the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.162-163