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FILE - This April 26, 2006 file photo, shows Jacobsen Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Blackfoot River near Ovando, Mont. Authorities say a grizzly bear attacked and killed a person who was camping in the Ovando area early Tuesday, July 6, 2021.
Image Credit: (Jennifer Michaelis/The Missoulian via AP, FIle) July 06, 2021 - 8:00 PM HELENA Mont. (AP) A grizzly bear attacked and killed a bicyclist who was camping in a small western Montana town early Tuesday, triggering an intensive search for the bruin by wildlife officials and law enforcement officers who planned to kill the animal, authorities said.
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On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana, many tribal members don t have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot. David Goldman/AP
Renee LaPlant, an organizer with the Indigenous get-out-the-vote group Western Native Voice, is driving across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Glacier National Park is just right up there, she says. But the rest of it is mostly all of the reservation. It s vast. It s huge.
So huge, LaPlant says, that many tribal members don t have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot.
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Renee LaPlant, an organizer with the Indigenous get-out-the-vote group Western Native Voice, is driving across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Glacier National Park is just right up there, she says. But the rest of it is mostly all of the reservation. It s vast. It s huge.
So huge, LaPlant says, that many tribal members don t have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot.
Western Native Voice staffers typically collect and deliver sealed absentee ballot envelopes for those residents, but a new Montana law prohibits anyone who receives a monetary benefit from doing so.
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