Tapping Into the Land, and Dividing Its People

There is beauty on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, but there is also oil, locked away in the tight shale rock thousands of feet underground. 

And tribal leaders have decided to tap their land’s buried wealth. The elders’ decision has divided the tribe while igniting a debate over the promise and perils of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in a place where many see the land as something living. Read more in "Tapping Into the Land, and Dividing Its People"

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.