Tribes across the Great Plains are killing bison to feed people as the government shutdown interrupted SNAP payments, with Fort Peck and other tribes providing buffalo, trout and moose to fill the gap ...

In October, the tribal government authorized killing 30 bison — about 12,000 pounds of meat. Half had been shot by Tuesday. A deal to end the shutdown came too late for the rest, Magnan said. With ...

WOLF POINT, Mont. — On the open plains of the Fort Peck Reservation, Robert Magnan leaned out the window of his truck, set a rifle against the door frame and then “pop!" — a bison tumbled dead in its ...