The Sacred Buffalo Vision pg.62
" The Great Northern Railway is pushing rapidly westward from the Assiniboine and before long will reach the border of the Blackfeet reserve. Before work is begun on that reservation the Indian Bureau ought to see that a contract is made by which the railway company shall bind itself and those working for it to pay the Indians for their land, and in part at least for the damage done to the reservation. The Indians may growl out here, but no one pays any attention to their grumbling, and their rights ought to be looked out for by the Government at Washington. The Great Northern Railway is probably not anxious to pay for the lands it takes from this reservation. If it can get them for nothing so much the better. No doubt if it could find a philanthropic mill owner who would roll its rails without charge, it would accept them. When the Great Northern buys rails, however, it pays for the...