The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.135-136

But when Mr. Sells shut off their rations, they were obliged to begin selling off their livestock in order to obtain food, as they could not get work by which to support themselves. Then, when their livestock was gone, they began selling their allotments of land. When I was on the reservation last summer, one of the traders at Browning had two hundred and twelve of Blackfeet patents in fee to their lands, and other traders and real estate sharks had many more. This is their method of procedure; they make small loans of money to the Indians, secured by mortgage upon their allotments, and then foreclose when the mortgages become due, as the Indians never by any chance have money with which to repay the loan.”

                         plantation morphology on the reservation

In 1919 border-whites in Glacier and Pondera Counties grafted a white apartheid political and economic structure on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in the legal anomaly territory designated as a “reservation/county” whose entire land base rested upon hundreds of stolen Blackfeet Allotments within the Boundary of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. It violated the 1896 Blackfeet Treaty, Organic Act of the Territory of Montana and the Constitution of the United States.
The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau   
pg.135-136