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When food cuts loomed, this tribe in the US turned to bison
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Last week, the Blackfeet Nation harvested 18 buffaloes from its herd of 600 and distributed the meat to elders, young families and other tribal members who might need food.
PHOTO: TAILYR IRVINE/NYTIMES
BROWNING, Montana – The carcasses of freshly killed bison lay on the wind-scoured plains of the Blackfeet Nation in western Montana, waiting to be sawed apart and trucked to a butcher.
They had died so that tribal members on the brink of losing their food stamps might eat.
