Blackfeet Nation

Montana Republican leaders are mum on President Trump's threat to "nationalize" elections. Tribal leaders vow to fight Trump administration efforts to remove "woke" exhibits from national parks and monuments. Gov. Gianforte pushes for the establishment of a conservative religious club in Montana schools. And the Epstein files become an issue in Montana's congressional race.

Gianforte requests federal disaster declaration due to northwestern Montana flooding; Feds delay Medicaid work requirement applications; 51 people arrested in St. Regis drug bust.

In 2023 the Blackfeet Nation released bison into the Chief Mountain area along the border of Glacier National Park. The release was part of a plan to build a free roaming herd in a place bison had been absent from for more than 100 years. One listener wants to know where those bison are now.

Members of Blackfeet Nation filed a lawsuit against the federal government over recent tariffs imposed on Canadian products. They claim the move impedes tribal sovereignty.

Construction begins on a museum dedicated to the U.S. Forest Service and the American conservation movement; Road safety funding gets a green light; The Missoula Fire Department gets $7 million in federal funds toward expanding their mental health crisis team.

Internationally renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has played for presidents and in the world’s great concert halls. Over the weekend, he took his cello to a meadow on the Blackfeet Nation, to play for bison in celebration of the tribe’s work to reestablish a free roaming herd.

Two Montana tribes will receive about $60,000 to bolster cybersecurity. These grants are the first time the federal government has helped tribes with cyber defenses.

The Blackfeet Nation is beginning to build infrastructure to improve access to clean water.

Glacier National Park officials are studying the return of free-roaming bison.

MTPR’s Austin Amestoy sat down with the filmmakers behind “Bring Them Home / Aiskótáhkapiyaaya,” which chronicles decades-long effort by a group of Blackfeet people to restore a herd of free-ranging bison to their ancestral lands.