The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.94-95

We had all supplies which were available sent to the school at once. There can be no excuse for this neglect. The small girls play room in the dormitory needs some chairs and benches furnished and the parlor for the larger girls should be provided with seats and other accommodations. There were no books, magazines, games, or needlework of any kind to interest and keep these girl pupils happy and contented during the winter months. During our stay nineteen of the larger girls asked to state their grievances to us and their complaint was that they did not get enough to eat; that the coffee was very poor; that they did not have milk for coffee or oatmeal; that they only had butter about once a month; that they had no sugar for their coffee; that the food was improperly cooked and they often left the table hungry. They said the dormitory was not warm enough and that they slept cold because they did not have enough blankets; that their night dresses were changed only once a month; that the matrons made fun of them and called them mules and devils and that some of their feet were on the ground. The matrons struck some of the little girls in the face when they asked for more food and they bathed only once a week and it was in very cold water.

The agency trader’s prices were exorbitant, and the son and wife of the Superintendent frequently filled agency positions as they became vacant, but worst of all, in Inspector Baker’s view, was the persistent interference in agency affairs by Clara McFatridge. By the spring of 1913 the Blackfeet Indians and some of the local white populace of Browning made it difficult for Washington to ignore their protests.

Robert Hamilton, a Piegan tribal attorney and interpreter for the Blackfeet Chiefs was a graduate of the Indian School at Carlisle. Robert Hamilton wrote to Senator Robinson, Chairman of the Joint Committee to Investigate Indian Affairs, Congress of the United States: “Superintendent McFatridge’s wife and son have been about the Office-the Agency Office, a great deal, and their manner, conduct, and treatment of the Indians is arbitrary, rude, and disagreeable. Mrs. Clara McFatridge is reputed to have destroyed some of the agency records, some of them involving the rights of Indians and their lands. I have had agency employees tell me of her acts and I am told that it is known in the Indian Office in Washington D.C. The best clerk the Blackfeet Agency ever had, Thomas Hawksmith, left the Indian Service because he would not be a party to the acts of McFatridge and his wife. It is our belief that the Lord never intended this man for an Indian Agent. He does not like Indians, and we could not be human, and like him.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.94-95