The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.132-133
Not many weeks later the Women’s Club of San
Francisco wrote a letter to Senator W.P. Dillingham of Vermont detailing the awful conditions
obtaining on the Blackfeet Reservation. Senator Dillingham sent the letter to
Cato Sells, then Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and his reply stated: “No
reports have been received by me of Indians starving to death under the
jurisdiction of the Federal Government suffering from want of food. I should
like to have specific information as to their names and location.” That statement was made in the face of the
fact that a Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs had reported on the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Serial No. two, Part 6-A, by the late United States
Senator, Honorable Harry Lane, of Oregon. This Report was given to the United
States Senate on February 11, 1915, eight months prior to the statement made by
Mr. Sells. I wish very much that you would send to the Document Room and get a
copy of that Report; on every page of it you will find hunger and neglect and
oppression and failure and injustice and horror personified.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.132-133
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