There has been an insufficiency of food, and as the game is gone, hunger has made the Indians in some cases desperate, and almost any race of man will fight rather than starve. The question of justice and right to the Indian is past and cannot be recalled. We have occupied his country, taken away his lordly domain, destroyed his herds of game, penned him up on reservations, and reduced him to poverty. For humanity’s sake, let’s give him enough to eat and integrity in the agent over him.29
