Alex Guardipee,
Cree Medicine, James Eagle Head, Medicine Stab, Heavy Gun, Mike Bad Old Man,
Shorty White Grass, Under Bear, Joe Bear Paw, Wolf Eagle, Sam Rondine, Fine
Bull, Fox Old Man, Mrs. Weasel Fat, Mrs. Torn Lodge, Mrs. Catch on Top,
Gambler, Two Bear Woman, Henry Hungry, Charles Weasel Head, Mike Berry’s child,
Oscar Boyd, Shoot First, Charley White Swan, Paul White Grass, The Boy, Lewis
Monroe, Baptiste West Wolf, John Running Crane, Myles Running Wolf, New Breast,
Theodore Last Star, Tim No Runner, Dan Lone Chief.
The agency ring
and Commercial Clubs in Cut Bank, Valier and Conrad were conspiring with James
J. Hill to force another land cession of 156,000 acres under the reclamation
project, the eastern boundary coal deposits and the newly discovered oil fields
in the Northeast corner of the reservation. Superintendent Arthur McFatridge
recommended that the Blackfeet irrigated farm lands be leased to white farmers,
and that the Indian’s grazing lands be leased to white stock men, although
trespass of the white cattlemen continued unabated. The Reclamation Service, having
saddled the Indians with a nearly $1,000,000 debt in the failure of the
Blackfeet Irrigation project, now had developed a plan for the transport of western
mountain reservation Blackfeet waters in St. Mary Lake and River, the Milk
River, and the Divide Mountain Rocky Mountain eastern watershed to
off-reservation water users. The Blackfeet cattle ranchers were removed to dry
eastern reservation lands away from their mountain meadows and cold water
streams and ditches used to irrigate hay lands for sale and for winter feed for
their cattle herds.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.114-115
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.114-115
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