The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-26
Bunston and Quinn Are Carrying
On Work Started by the Crow
Tribal Delegates.

After laying the ground work
before the national congress at
Washington looking towards the
construction of storage dams or
reservoirs on the upper reaches OF
the Little Big Horn river ana
Lodge Grass creek, so as to as
sure a suffciency OF Irrigation
water at all seasons of the year
for the land under these streams,
Superintendent Robert Yellowtatl,
Harry Whiteman, Frank Yarlott
and Thomas Yellowtail, repre-
senting the Crow tribal council
have returned to their homes on
the Grow reservation. A few
days before their departure for
home they were joined by At
torneys n. W. Funston and C. G.
Quinn Of Hardin, representing
the Little Big Horn-Lodge Grass
Dam association, comprising land
owners. Of these two. valleys, who
acquainted themselves with the
work done by the Crow delegation
and took up negotiations where
they left of. I'd
n lCtGcI W t1IS 11dIO4AA JUL
Herald from H. w. Bunston, under
Washington date Of March %,
states that the Crow delegation,
particularly supt. Yellowtail, did
a real Job in laying the ground
work. Supt. Yellowtail has q very
impressive way Of presenting a
subject in which he Is deeply in
terested, and he did that very
thing on the water conservation
matter, and the other delegates
also had the matter well in
hand, and, as a result the In
dian department fully realizes the
Indian viewpoint and the i'm
portance Of water conservation
to them as a people. Since their
departure we have been building
TIP. and a hearing for us has
been set for next Monday.
I'm this connection, Val Kuska,
colonization agent for the Bur-
lington Railway Co. has furnished
US with needed data that only
could be furnished by one who
has available to him the data and
a complete knowledge of what is
necessary to make the picture
complete"
Following is a summary of the
convincing picture presented by
Supt. Robert Yellowtail as to
why the government should make
the necessary appropriation to
construct storage reservoirs In
the Little Horn river and Lodge
Grass creek valleys:
The program for the building of
storage facilities in the Little Big
Horn river and Lodge Grass creek
is designed primarily for the re-
Mobilization of the Grow Indian
tribe and its members and espe-
cially those allottees owning lands
in the district affected by these
dams. This program Is in accord
with the policy of the Indian
bureau to place Indians in gen.
eral on a footing where they may
become selfsustaining. This policy
has already been developed on
the Crow reservation in the pur-
chase of breeding stock, horses,
cattle and work stock to be used
in agricultural pursuits; the crea-
ton OF irrigation canals with the
original purpose Of furnishing
adequate water for the indians to
successfully engage in agriculture
and the employment of agricul-
tural experts to instruct the In
dams IN proper farming methods
No money is to be spent in this
program for the building of irri-
CATION bitches, canals, or laterals.
as these things have already been
created under an irrigation system
on the Crow Indian reservation in
these valleys, comprising canals
and other irrigation facilities sus-
ceptible of irrigating 1884 acres
OF Indian owned lands, and ap-
proximately 5000 acres of white
owned lands. These projects were
created under an agreement in
December, 1890, concluded with
the Crow Indians, by which they
coded a considerable portion of
their reservation, ratified by the
act OF congress of March 8, 1891.
Irrigation in this district had its