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In 1895, facing starvation, the Blackfeet people reluctantly sold 800,000 acres to the U.S. government with the understanding that they would retain rights to hunt, fish and gather on the land.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

“The loudest screams,” wrote a Variety reporter at the time, “were directed at the film’s discovery”: Gladstone, who lived as a child on Montana’s Blackfeet Reservation and graduated in 2004 from Mountlake Terrace High School.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

The researchers also isolated DNA from the remains of four ancestors with the Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office as well as three ancestors held by the Smithsonian Institution.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

Gladstone, who is of Siksikaitsitapii/Nimíipuu heritage, was born in Montana and grew up on the Blackfeet reservation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024

“I harvested these huckleberries myself, straight from Blackfeet Country.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith