Tapping Into The Land, and Dividing Its People

The mountains along the eastern edge of Glacier National Park rise from the prairie like dinosaur teeth, . . . Yes, there is beauty here on the Blackfeet reservation, but there is also oil, locked away in the tight shale thousands of feet underground. And tribal leaders have decided to tap their land’s buried wealth. The move has divided the tribe while igniting a debate over the promise and perils of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in a place where grizzlies roam into backyards and many residents see the land as something living and sacred.

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