This April 29, 2021, file photo shows Canadians driving up to the Piegan-Carway border crossing to receive COVID-19 vaccines from the Blackfeet Nation near Babb, Mont. Chief Mountain, a landmark sacred to the tribe, is seen in the background. (Iris Samuels/Associated Press)
May 5, 2021
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May 5, 2021 9 a.m.
Blackfeet gifts vaccines to neighbors across the border
BABB (AP) — On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season's hottest commodity — a COVID-19 vaccine — from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses.