The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.133-134

There is no speech, there is no language, there is no heart-rending cry that will in any fashion become adequate to the description of such a state of affairs.” Joseph K. Dixon, National American Indian Memorial Association.

General Pershing was requested to use his influence, and great heart “to strike a blow somewhere, somehow, that will rouse the people to a realization of the horrors that exist at their own door, and that the spirit of mercy and of good-will clustering about the manger and cradle in Bethlehem will bring gifts of food and clothing to these dependent, oppressed, and damaged Indians, old and blind, who lived to rear boys whom they sent to fight under your swords in France, and are likewise wounded, helpless, and suffering with their fathers whom they cannot help. God have mercy on us if we do not do something, and do it soon.”   

Once again, in 1921, after causing the deaths of 100 Blackfeet Indians in the winter of 1913 to force another Blackfeet land cession of the irrigated lands and oil fields, Joe Sherburne, agency trader and the agency ring were found to be starving the Blackfeet allottees to force them to accept patents-in-fee on their trust property after they were allotted in 1917-1922. James Willard Schultz wrote E.B. Merritt, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, “Among other things, you state that, last year, a house to house investigation of the tribe disclosed no starving members of it.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.133-134