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