Saturday, February 7, 2015

The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.96-97

The people here raised funds and hired an attorney to go to Washington D.C. in my behalf. The attorney succeeded in getting the Indian Office to allow me to return to the reservation and resume my duties as teacher, but the matter is not yet settled. McFatridge Sr. is still waging a bitter warfare against your humble servant and unless something is done by my friends he is going to get my goat. His holding a position in the government service is a disgrace to the country and a menace to the welfare of the poor people under his charge. An investigation of his administration under the present way of carrying on investigations would do no good because the investigating officials, as a rule, are whitewashers of whatever they find wrong, and they do not dig very deeply to find wrongs. I should be glad if you would take this up with a view to getting McFatridge removed from the government service. Do not, under any circumstances let this letter get to the Indian Office. That Office would simply send it to McFatridge here at Browning for a report and McFatridge would send in the kind of lying report he is capable of and would substantiate his report by statements from some of his pet employees who are afraid to refuse to comply with every request that McFatridge makes. A radical change is needed in the conduct of Indian matters on this reservation and a good way to begin the reform is to get rid of McFatridge. Do everything possible to bring this about. He is in league with the present Commissioner of Indian Affairs F.H. Abbot and has been in Washington for the last four weeks trying to get in line with E.B. Merritt, who is an active candidate for appointment to Commissioner under the new administration. McFatidge is a Republican blood-sucker and is trying to make himself strong with the new administration. He is a veritable scoundrel, incompetent, lazy, cannot tell the truth, and is in every way objectionable.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.96-97 

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