The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.132

Blackfeet soldiers “doughboys” starved

Several prominent white men protested the starving condition of the Blackfeet in 1921, to General John J. Pershing, General of the Armies, Washington D.C.

The National Indian Memorial Association wrote that “150 Blackfeet Indians had fought in World War 1 on the fields of France, and that only about 20 of them came back, not one of them sound, and many of them wounded; that these Indian veterans are now dying by the roadside, and so are many of their other tribal members, from sheer hunger; that the tribe is being decimated by the pangs of hunger; that their hunting grounds have been pre-empted and their land filched.”  

The National Indian Memorial Association appealed to General Pershing for sympathy and to use his influence to seek an early remedy for this deplorable condition. Lone Wolf made an interview in the New York Evening Post, November 17^th, 1921 telling of the conditions of the Blackfeet Indians and Mr. Rodman Wanamaker’s Indian Exhibit in the Palace of Education and Social Economy at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, a little leaflet was circulated with the title: “Do you know that the famous old Blackfeet Tribe in Montana is in dire straits through the failure of crops and pillage by grafters? That many of them literally starved to death last winter, and that hundreds of them will be in serious want again this year?”  That statement reached the eye of the late Franklin K. Lane, then Secretary of the Interior, and he immediately protested, going so far as to send a special messenger to Mr. Rodman Wannamaker in New York stating that “I am abusing the United States Government.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.132