The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.125-126

Senate Indian Committee Investigator, Walter W. Liggitt, charged Horace G. Wilson with personally approving the grant of a fee patent to the unfortunate Peter Tail Feathers. The Agency Competency Commission Chairman Joe Sherburne, and Clerk, Stuart Hazlett and the agency ring were conducting a conspiracy to defraud hundreds of Blackfeet Indians of their trust land allotments. Liggitt charged that Wilson and Hazlett had perpetrated a conspiracy with agency trader J.L. Sherburne: “The principle beneficiary of this deliberate conspiracy was J.L. Sherburne of the Sherburne Mercantile Co. of Browning, Mont., who has acquired some 40,000 acres of former Indian owned land since coming to the Blackfeet Reservation.” Hazlett was a half-breed tribal member and graduate of Carlisle Indian School, and programmed to work in the Indian Service.

Senate Investigator Liggitt reported “The Blackfeet Indian Reservation land base has a total of 1,486,874 acres with 1,440,000 acres allotted to individual Indian allottees, with 2,364 acres for school, agency, and township purposes, and 44,240 acres of tribal timber and reservoir sites.” By 1920, just one year after the incorporation of Glacier County and Pondera County on the reservation, 312,250 acres of the reservation land base passed into the ownership of white patent-in-fee landowners.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.125-126