How Dogs are Being Trained to Track Diseases in Blackfeet Country
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.
Source: onegreenplanet.org
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Blackfeet nation uses dogs to sniff out disease, other contaminants – Daily Montanan
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.
Source: dailymontanan.com
Chronic wasting disease forcing tribes to alter traditional practices
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.
Source: usatoday.com
Montana's Blackfeet Tribe to Use Dogs to Sniff Out Disease and Contaminants
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
Source: physiciansweekly.com
Dogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe
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.
Source: ypradio.org