Great Falls Tribune
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – When Cheyenne Foote heard that President Joe Biden blocked the Keystone XL pipeline permit on his first day in office, she cried.
Foote, 68, is an elder of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, and she feared the pipeline, which passes through a portion of Montana near the Fort Peck Reservation, would contaminate the tribes water supply. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, my prayers have been answered, Foote said as she wept. I am so happy. I am just so happy.
Foote grew up in Fort Kipp, Montana. She remembers racing to the river in the summer to fill cups of water and watching her uncle in the winter fill buckets with snow that would melt and later be used for the garden.