The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.175-176

Anthropologist Ruth Hill Useem stated regarding the dominant assumptions that govern the federal government’s relations with the Indian people’s: “(1) That over the years, the Indian can expect no consistency in policies regarding him; (2) That the interests of the dominant society will take precedence over the interests of Indians in any policy decision; (3) That the Indian can do little to affect decisions concerning Indians; (4) That whatever the policy enacted, the Indian will be told that such policy “is in his best interests” or is “for his own good”; and (5) That the stated goals of a policy may be and usually are quite different from the consequences, with the goals being more favorable to the Indians than the consequences.”

            Robert Hamilton, the Piegan lawyer, made a mighty defense of the Treaty Rights of the Indians before the Congress of the United States: “In view of the principles enunciated and adopted by your highest judicial tribunals, the fact can not be controverted or questioned that the Blackfeet Indians have been unconstitutionally and unconscionably deprived of their vested rights under the treaty of 1855, by the Executive orders, and acts of Congress of 1873 and 1874, and that the Government of the United States is answerable therefore.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.175-176