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Article: Blackfoot-only border crossing wanted.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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Peigan Nation band councillor Edwin Small Legs doesn't know his people.
"The saddest thing about the Peigan and South Peigan is that we're only two hours away from each other but we live worlds apart," he said.
Small Legs, and representatives from the other tribes that form the Blackfoot Confederacy - Siksika and Blood in Alberta and South Peigan in Browning, Montana - are hoping to make family and cultural visits across the Canada and United States border easier. By the end of May, the plan is to produce a "political vehicle" that will be able to negotiate with the Canadian and American governments for a border crossing specifically for the Blackfoot ...