On the open plains of the Fort Peck Reservation, Robert Magnan leaned out the window of his truck, set a rifle against the door frame and then “pop!” — a bison tumbled dead in its tracks.
Shutdown starvation was so bad that some Native American tribes killed the buffalo herds that they helped restore | Fortune
About a third of Fort Peck's tribal members on the reservation depend on monthly benefit checks, tribal chair says, almost triple the rate for the U.S.







