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In an area with four different Native American tribes, dogs are put to work in hopes of determining what's behind recent mysterious diseases in the area.

The Blackfeet Nation is leading a pilot study where dogs can be trained to sniff out chronic wasting disease and other toxins to help Indigenous people use traditional forms of medicine and food.

The Blackfeet Nation is experimenting with a new way to detect chronic wasting disease in animals used by tribal members for food, clothing and regalia.

BROWNING, Mont. — Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig’s skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. Cook planned to use the pig’s brains in brain tanning, practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years. The brains are mushed up

Montana's Blackfeet Nation is experimenting with a new way to detect chronic wasting disease in animals and toxic substances in plants used by tribal members for food and cultural practices.

Montana's Blackfeet Nation is experimenting with a new way to detect chronic wasting disease in animals and toxic substances in plants used by tribal members for food and cultural practices.

BROWNING, Mont. — Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig’s skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in

Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig's skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana.

The Blackfeet Nation is experimenting with a new way to detect chronic wasting disease in animals used by tribal members for food, clothing and regalia.

Chronic wasting disease has been detected in just one white-tailed deer on the Blackfeet reservation, but once its present, its impossible to eradicate, according to wildlife managers.