US EditionTribes that Restored Buffalo Are Killing some to Feed People because of the Shutdown
The Blackfeet Nation harvested 18 bison, producing over 3,000 pounds of meat to aid 2,300 families facing reduced SNAP benefits during the longest federal shutdown.
- On Sunday, the Blackfeet Nation harvested 18 buffalo and converted them into over 3,000 pounds of meat for about 2,300 families in western Montana.
- The shutdown interrupted federal food-assistance programs, and the Blackfeet Nation faced halted aid, prompting tribal officials to use bison as a lifeline during the longest government shutdown in American history.
- Processing teams hauled carcasses to Valier, Montana, where the meat was ground and packaged, while firefighting crews helped deliver packages across the reservation.
- Elders and young families received packaged bison, Spam, milk and produce, and Denise Heavyrunner said the delivery eased her worries, amid $7.95 a pound ground beef prices.
- Historically, bison were central to Plains tribes, with about 400,000 rebounding regionally, but tribal leaders like Ervin Carlson warn against depleting the Blackfeet herd of about 700.
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The Seattle TimesWhen food cuts loomed, this tribe turned to bison
BROWNING, Mont. – 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.
Members of the Assiniboin and Sioux Native American tribes from Fort Peck in northern Montana on the plains of the Fort Peck Reservation from off-road vehicles kill bison that
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