Blackfeet Nation resumes enforcement of Chief Mountain closure
A hiker heads up Lee Ridge with with Chief Mountain in the background in Glacier National Park. (Chris Peterson/Hungry Horse News FILE)
Tribal leaders are again enforcing a decades-old closure of Chief Mountain after recent tourist activity disturbed cultural and spiritual practices there.
The Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office is enforcing Tribal Resolution 251-92, passed in the early 1980s and amended in 1992, according to Deputy Compliance Officer Gheri Hall. She said the original resolution was passed by Chief Earl Old Person and put in place after tourists interested in climbing the mountain disturbed traditional Blackfeet spiritual practices at the site.
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