The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.169-170

The Indian plaintiffs felt the statute imposed a mandatory duty owing to the Indians and to Congress and that the Interior Department had deliberately breached a mandatory duty imposed upon it by Congress when President Ronald Reagan made the decision to stonewall the Indian claims. 1,200 Blackfeet Indian Original Allottees claims are identified which fall into the relevant categories: trespass, harmful use of Indian property, breach of contract and wrongful transfer or alienation of Indian property against states, counties, local governments, and private individuals. The land frauds have led to over 500,000 acres of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation under border-whites void patent-in-fee ownership, and it is growing by 6,000 acres each year.

 The Blackfeet Tribe and 1,200 Original Blackfeet Allottees and thousands of heirs have claims under categories of: Old Age Assistance whereby the State and local subdivisions were reimbursed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs from the trust accounts of deceased Indians because of state old age assistance rendered to those deceased Indians; as well as the requirement by the county to force the Indians to sell all of their trust property to qualify for welfare assistance; and the failure of the BIA to defend the Indian claimants. Forced Fee Patents claims whereby the Indian Trust Patents were converted to unrestricted fee status by the Bureau of Indian Affairs without the prior application or the effective consent of the Indian allottees.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.169-170