The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.81-82

Inspector Chubbuck argued “The livestock Industry is the one best suited to the natural conditions and the inclinations of the people, and if developed along intelligent lines can be made to yield comfortable support to all the people of the tribe to whom the reservation belongs. The reservation could carry 50,000 head of cattle annually, permitting the Indians to market 10,000 head a year, and the creeks on the reservation would be capable of irrigating enough grass and hay land to feed 50,000 head if a combination of small irrigation ditches to water grass and hay land was developed for winter feed and summer grazing.”

The inspectors urged the Indian Office to develop Blackfeet water resources before the Montana border-whites encroached on their treaty reserved water rights.

Massive embezzlements of Blackfeet treaty funds surfaced under Commissioner Jones administration of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, which funds have never been repaid to the Blackfeet Tribe. Chief Financial Clerk Slater warned Commissioner of Indian Affairs William Jones that Treasury Auditors were pouring over the books, and that some trouble might be had: “There have been financial transactions in “L” [Land Division] to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars which have never been accounted for. I do not believe these experts suspect anything of that sort, and I certainly hope they will not find it out.” The Indian Office and Treasury Auditors did not find out the embezzlements because they did not look for audit exceptions, and they felt the sooner the Indians were broke again, the sooner the reservations could be dissolved.

Texas cattle kings usurp the Blackfeet cattle economy

Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Francis E. Leupp, appointed by President Teddy Roosevelt reported the “Indians protested hordes of range cattle put on their reservation that were eating their hay fields because the public ranges in Montana were practically denuded of grass, wrought by the greed and avarice of large stock barons who turn loose immense herds of cattle to rustle for themselves through the summer and winter at a minimum expense.” Chief White Calf protested “these stock barons are compelled to seek new pastures for their cattle and sheep, and they look with covetous eyes on our land-our only inheritance and our only possession. The past summer we had our reserve fenced, at which we labored faithfully with the hope that we would soon see the last of the hordes of range cattle that were continually annoying us, when our hopes were dashed to the ground by the government turning our country into a white mans cow pasture.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.81-82