The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.140-141

The accessibility of the area to well established livestock markets, the natural production of wild hay, the ease of movement of stock to surplus feed or the transportation of feed to the stock all combine to enhance the value of this property for the large scale production of cattle and sheep.

To indicate the early recognition of the livestock possibilities of this region and to show the foresight of the early representatives of the Indians and the Indian Service in this regard, a part of an agreement between the Blackfeet Indians and the United States dated September 25, 1895, is presented herewith. This agreement was ratified by Congress under date of June 10, 1896 (29 Stat. 355). Article Five of this agreement is quoted in full, as follows: “Since the situation of the Blackfeet Reservation renders it wholly unfit for agriculture, and since these Indians have shown within the past four years that they can successfully raise horned cattle, and there is every probability that they will become self-supporting by attention to this industry, it is agreed that during the existence of this agreement no allotments of land in severalty shall be made to them, but that this whole reservation shall continue to be held by these Indians as a communal grazing tract upon which their herds may feed undisturbed; and that after the expiration of this agreement the lands shall continue to be held until such time as a majority of the adult males of the tribe shall request in writing that allotment in severalty shall be made of their lands: Provided, That any member of the tribe may, with the approval of the agent in charge, fence in such area of land as he and the members of the family would be entitled to under the allotment act, and may file with the agent a description of such land and of the improvements that he has made on the same, and the filing of such description shall give the said members of the tribe the right to take such land when allotments of the land in severalty shall be made.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.140-141