The Natives Issue
Welcome to Blackfeet Country
The Blackfeet tribe has about 15,500 members. 8,500 of them live on the rez. The rez is 1.5 million acres. Do the math—that makes for a lot of open space.
The VICE Guide to Blackfeet Reservation Bars
There are four bars that you'll want to consider next time you're living on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwestern Montana.
Stop Killing Us
You can tell the world is getting smaller because we’re having more and more intrusion by government. About 75 years ago the only time you’d see government was when you were called up to go to war or you needed to get a passport to leave the country.
No More Numtees
I am originally from Vatersay, which is a small island not far from Barra. The population is about 80 people. My husband Ian is from Barra, although I always thought I’d never get married to a Barra guy.
Top One Nice One
Inbetween the hordes of urchins parading around in Dick Van Dyke’s hand-me-downs, crowding new British music like Fagin’s gang, it’s easy to lose sight of one Britain’s most authentic musical institutions: rave.
What Happened?
I’m a doctor, but I am currently not practicing. I teach pharmacology at the local community college. I grew up on the reservation, in the towns of Heart Butte and Browning. I ended up studying medicine in kind of a roundabout way.
More Crunk Please
Metronomy is a guy called Joe Mount who, if we all hold hands and believe hard enough, could turn out to be Britain’s answer to that chubby guy from the DFA and LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy.
Older Team
Never knowingly understated, Mogwai’s manager Alan McGee is running around town saying things like: “Honestly mate, no word of a fucking lie, the new Mogwai record is going to have the same impact as Loveless did.”
Fry Bread Power
Indians are not known for their healthy diets. Their history is still in their genes and their genes are very worried about being hungry.
Medicine Pipe Tradition
The state of the nation of American Indians today is actually a lot like that of a battered woman. Anybody who has lost their identity and been continually told that they were evil practitioners of witchcraft will begin to believe it.
The VICE Guide to the Bars of Barra Island
If you want to drink yourself to death in the most beautiful surroundings possible then I really can’t think of a better place than the Isle Of Barra. No one will catch you at it because there’s basically no-one there.