Blackfeet Tribe to use dogs to sniff out disease and contaminants
Michele Vasquez (left) and researcher Souta Calling Last sit with Charlie, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever trained to detect several scents for Working Dogs for Conservation. (Aaron Bolton for KHN)
Hide tanner Kenneth Cook holds up deer hides he “brain-tanned.” Cook explains that leather made using this traditional technique is more durable and strong enough to stand up to traditional stitch work compared with commercially tanned leather. (Aaron Bolton for KHN)
BROWNING — 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...
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