The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.79-80

In fact it seems to have produced more trouble of this sort than any other in the state. They had much better use the grass for their own cattle and increase the number until it is all used up, than to give it away to white cattle owners for a small annual rent. In Major Monteath’s position it is surely his duty to encourage the Indians to use their land themselves rather than to induce them to give up that land. Surely it must be apparent to anyone that only by using the land can the Indians become self-supporting.”

The Blackfeet Indians resented the conspiracy by Commissioner Jones and Agent Monteath to use the façade of a farm program-locating them on his small utopian farm colony as Monteath’s vision suggested-in order to satisfy the grazing requirements of Montana cattlemen on their reservation. Agent Monteath refused to forward a petition of the Blackfeet Chiefs protesting his farm policy to Washington, so Horace Clark, who had a Piegan mother, did it for them on October 16. The petition questioned Monteath’s purposes and listed the following objections: “grazing of Floweree and other range stock on the reservation, and the Floweree and other range riders and their detectives arresting the Indians without legal foundation, the Department compelling the Indians to lease their lands to these stockmen, trespassing cattle herds, the irrigation ditch a waste of tribal funds, built on a gravel bench, forced labor of the Indians, no wages paid the Indian laborers, and rations withheld for forced labor on the ditch.”

The Indian Office countered with an offer to fence the reservation but Floweree got his grazing permit. Monteath expended large sums on irrigation and the Blackfeet reservation eventually got fenced-albeit with 15,000 head of trespassing white men’s cattle on the inside of the fence looking out with the Indians. The Piegan cattle ranchers wondered what the purpose of the reservation fence was since the Indian Office was approving grazing permits on the reservation for the same Montana cattlemen that were trespassing, which white cattlemen the Indians were trying to fence out of their reservation. Agent Monteath continued his character building program for the Piegans advising Commissioner Jones “I believe we are on the right track and the plan submitted to you in letters from this office, if followed out, will produce good results. To the able-bodied, the doctrine should be preached: You cannot get something for nothing; if you don’t work you can’t eat. I would urge that the funds of this tribe be expended largely in irrigation work. It is not only an educational measure but it is also sound business policy.” 
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.79-80