The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.128-129

Robert Hamilton wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Senate Indian Committee protesting the forced patents of hundreds of illiterate and incompetent Blackfeet Indians, and the loss of their lands in county courts for liens and tax deeds.

 Mr. Hamilton, tribal attorney also protested the Indian Probate Courts, and the Interior Department corruption in determining the heirs of deceased Indians and approval of Indian wills: “The act of June 25^th, 1910, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to determine heirs of deceased Indians and to approve wills. Congress appropriates funds for this so-called court, but it is reimbursable from the fees paid from estates. Prior to this act the Federal Courts had jurisdiction to determine heirs. Why the Federal Courts, with its well defined procedure, judicial atmosphere and ability should be divested and jurisdiction given to Civil Service employees is beyond reason. The position of the Indian Bureau which insists that erratic procedure of the Probate Court is superior to the judicial system of the Federal Courts is so absurd and ridiculous that no sympathy should be shown to those in the office who attempt to justify it. The ever changing procedure, the shifting of responsibility, the general slothfulness, the heartless indifference to the honor reposed in the tribunal, and the mediocre capacity, all of which are obscured by the confidence reposed in a governmental department, place the adjudication of property rights upon dangerous grounds.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.128-129