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 them, 

and so when it takes land that does not belong to the public domain it must pay for that land.  It is 

reported here that this matter has already been brought to the attention of the Indian Department, but if 

this be true, nothing appears to be known of the matter by the people in this State who have the best 

opportunity of learning about it.  If any action is to be taken it should be known to at once, for the 

Piegans are being uneasy and dissatisfied over the approach of the railroad.  These people for two or 

three years have been working hard and are making fairly good progress toward civilization, but the 

two last seasons have been so dry that their crops have failed, and they are now on short rations since 

the supplies have all run out, and no appropriations had been made by Congress for their support 

during the coming year.  Before long there is likely to be much actual suffering from hunger."  

-The Sacred Buffalo Vision 
by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau 
pg.62

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