The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.163

On water quantification testified on the need for a new study of the Blackfeet irrigable acres intended by Secretary of the Interior James Watt and President Reagan to reduce the existing amount of Blackfeet water rights: “I was shocked and outraged at the conduct of the United States Justice Department, Department of the Interior, and Bureau of Indian Affairs toward my firm. The charade being developed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of Justice is government at its worst. The Blackfeet Tribe, supposedly the beneficiary of the actions of the Government, strongly oppose the actions being forced upon it. The work proposed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Department of Justice is unnecessary. I am convinced that the primary objective of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is to reduce the water right claims developed by my firm for the Blackfeet Tribe and to protect the Secretary of the Interior from confrontation over the conflicting water rights of the Blackfeet Tribe and the Milk River Federal Reclamation project. A review of the claims filed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and by filings of the State of Montana disclosed no claim for waters of the St. Mary or Milk Rivers for the Blackfeet Tribe. These are principal streams of the Blackfeet Reservation that are being used exclusively by the Milk River project.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.163