Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.134-135

All through the winter this fund was distributed among the most destitute of the tribe, and was the means of saving some lives. In regard to the present condition of the Blackfeet, the following are parts of two letters from my son, Hart Merriam Schultz, Glacier Park, Montana, August 17, and 27, 1921: “Well, the Blackfeet are about finished. Excepting a few old people, they get no rations and the rations that are given out last only three or four days, instead of the fourteen days they are supposed to cover. Yes, this does finish the Blackfeet unless you help them. They have no grain crops, very little hay, and the worst is to come, the dreadful winter. I went here to Little Badger Creek, and Big Badger Creek, and believe me, in most of the houses when I entered, there was no food other than the few small trout the people had managed to catch. Yesterday, Many Guns, and Dog Gun, and others, came away up here to see me, and said that they were so hungry they had to ask me for help. I gave them all something. Have been constantly giving out food and money since I arrived here.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.134-135 

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