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Fentanyl has taken root in Montana and in communities across the Mountain West during the pandemic, and overall drug overdose deaths are disproportionately affecting Native Americans. The overdose death rate among Indigenous people was about 30% higher than the rate among white people during the pandemic’s first year, according to a recent study.(TONY BYNUM FOR KHN)

Fentanyl has taken root in Montana and in communities across the Mountain West during the pandemic, and overall drug overdose deaths are disproportionately affecting Native Americans. The overdose death rate among Indigenous people was about 30% higher than the rate among white people during the pandemic’s first year, according to a recent study.(TONY BYNUM FOR KHN)

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The Blackfeet Nation’s plight underscores the fentanyl crisis on reservations
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The Blackfeet Nation’s plight underscores the fentanyl crisis on reservations

BROWNING — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson, and son.