Hello, Indicator listeners.
We'll be back tomorrow to tell you about the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Today is Indigenous People's Day,
and we're re-airing our show from 2023. It's about the near total destruction of bison herds by the U.S.
Military and white settlers in the 19th century, and the dire consequences for Native populations who relied on them.
You'll hear our host, Darian Woods, in this episode.
He's been on book leave, but he'll be back with us in a few months.
Enjoy.
NPR.
Right at the top of Montana is a stretch of land bigger than Delaware.
It's the Blackfeet Reservation,
and it's bordered by the Rocky Mountains shooting up on one side and wide open plains on the other.
And it's there that Irvin Carlson lived on his grandparents' cattle ranch in the 1950s and 60s.
I grew up ranching.
It taught me to work hard, to be able to work hard and for a living.
Work ethics was a good way of growing up.
But across the reservation, across Blackfeet Nation, work was scarce.
I didn't see a whole lot of jobs.
There was a lot of unemployment here.
Not a lot of opportunity for all of our people here.