Friday, February 27, 2015

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.152-153

We make our complaint to the Office but what is the use. We cannot support these parasites much longer without going under ourselves. At last Campbell was removed and promoted by the powers that “were” to that of Supervisor of this district. Promoted because of work “well done”? The big sheepmen here on the reservation do not follow any rules. They do not have to, because they make laws. The State Legislature is over stocked with them and laws are made in their favor. Most western senators to Washington are elected by sheepmen. As a result they have their way here. Our forest reserves lie adjacent to Glacier National Park on the east, and in the summer time great bands come flocking in here to eat up the feed for nothing. I say “here” because I live near to both lines, and have a chance to observe their conduct at first hand. The herders secretly hunt, fish and trap, most herders are foreigners, but they all carry high powered rifles. At mid-day when the sheep are bedded down in the shade, from four to five hours the herders get out and hunt down big game in their native haunts. Little cubs are accused of killing sheep. The Office here sued the Frye Sheep Company for eighty thousand dollars on behalf of the tribe, but the Fryes immediately sold out most of their livestock reorganized their company and came out with a brand “new” name-The Poplar Sheep Company-They declared the Frye Sheep Company existed no more and that they were broke and could pay no damages.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau    
pg.152-153 

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