The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.90

The Blackfeet Chiefs authorized Robert Hamilton to protest the forced sale of Blackfeet lands to James J. Hill, and the Great Northern Railroad for his tourist hotels: “Mr. R.J. Hamilton read an act authorizing the sale of the Hotel site at the Glacier National Park. He contended that this was contrary to treaty stipulations, and requested to be advised as to the disposition of the proceeds of the sale, and how Congress came to pass this legislation, which he claimed was contrary to the Constitution of the United States. Requested this matter to be referred to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for information.  The sale was authorized by S. 4246, 62^nd Cong. 2^nd. Session, 37 Stat. 64.”

The tourist hotels at St. Mary, Many Glacier, and East Glacier Park remain in ownership of the Hill Properties or their business progeny today on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and produce $168,000,000 each summer for the corporations, while the Blackfeet Indians work for minimum wages at the hotels when they can get the work. In 1920 Hill hired the starving Indians to dance at his hotels by passing the hat among tourists and feeding the Indians scraps of food scraped from the tourist’s dinner plates. His son Louis Hill renamed the Blackfeet Indians “Glacier Park Indians” and used their portraits to promote tourism on his railroad. Mrs. Mabel Monroe Bond told the Senators J.L. Sherburne had taken her and her sisters allotments for bills at his store when she was 14 years old, and their land makes up the property at the village of St. Mary and the other tourism businesses. Joe Sherburne then gave a right-of-way to Hill at the east entrance to the park, so he would not have to get a right-of-way to cross tribal lands at St. Mary.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.90