Blackfeet Urge Government To Cancel Energy Leases

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Blackfoot tribal leaders from Montana and Canada are calling on the U.S. government to cancel oil and gas leases on land near Glacier National Park that is considered sacred to them. Representatives from the three tribes in Canada and one in Montana that make up the Blackfoot Confederacy met in Browning Friday. They sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging them to cancel 18 leases in the Badger-Two Medicine area, which is U.S.

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