The Blackfeet
Chiefs had adopted Mr. Cullen into the Blackfeet Tribe in a tribal ceremony by
giving him the traditional Blackfeet name of “Chief Medicine Talk.” Councilman
Leo Kennerly opened the meeting by stating, “We want to treat this meeting as
strictly confidential because as soon as some of these stockmen and others know
there is a possibility of getting financial aid to do our own developing for
livestock, oil etc., we know what will immediately happen. I want to thank you
gentlemen for coming in here. They [Cullen interests] haven’t arrived at any
particular program but [we] have asked them what they think about it and what
the possibilities are. I am going to begin by asking Mr. Cullen what his
observations are.”
Mr. Cullen: “Gentlemen, we have spent several days now
being conducted over the reservation, have seen practically all of it that can
be seen in a short time and have quite closely observed what resources are
available within the boundaries of the reservation. When I got to talking about
this reservation while I was still in -The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.157
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