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 WELCOME TO BLACKFEET COUNTRY
This entire issue of Vice was done on a Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwestern Montana. Hence, everybody in this issue is a Blackfeet Indian. (Well, everybody except for one guy who is a bartender, but he goes out with a Blackfeet woman and he lives on t...READ MORE |
  FRY BREAD POWER
It's Dangerously Delicious
Indians are not known for their healthy diets. Their history is still in their genes and their genes are very worried about being hungry. You see, it used to be that you'd get a buffalo and gorge on it for a week or so and then ... nothing. You didn't know if ...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - Sifting Through Blackfeet Stuff - The Natives Issue
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
According to the most recent Equal Opportunity Survey by the Defense Manpower Data Center, there are 22,864 Native Americans in the armed forces. That's two percent of the total number of soldiers. ...READ MORE |
 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.
The Warbonnet is in Browning, which is sort of the biggest town on the rez. It's a good place to get really, really drunk...READ MORE |
 ONE WORLD, ONE LOVE
Just Kidding, We're Different
All races of people are not the same. They're just not. It's like saying that a man and a woman are the same. I do not think like a woman and a woman does not think like me. That's why they have the man and the woman. We don't think alike....READ MORE |
 REZ DAWG!
Packs of Mascots
Dogs hold a special place in the Blackfeet culture. They were the beast of burden before the horse was (horses only became an Indian thing after the white Spaniards brought them over). Blackfeet have four periods of history: Creation, Dog Days, Horse and Gun, ...READ MORE |
 DOS & DON'TS
Rolling on E can be a bit of a bummer if you're not the center of attention and nobody wants to make out with you. But when you're the master of ceremonies and you're lying there like a Native American Thor with at least three viable pussy options, nothing is ...READ MORE |
 GRIZZLY GIRL
I Got Mauled
On September 27th two years ago, my coworker Catherine and I went on a hike to celebrate the end of our summer work season. I have a bad knee from snowboarding and she had previously sprained her ankle, so we decided to take an easy route to Row Lakes in Glaci...READ MORE |
 ARMY REZERVE
Heading to Iraq
I'm in the Army Reserve. I left for basic training about a year ago. I went to Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Right after we finished with basic, we headed straight out to AIT. That stands for advanced individual training. It's your first round of specialized s...READ MORE |
 NO MORE FIREWATER
Getting Sober for the Next Generation
I was addicted to alcohol. I've been to five treatments. I did meth too. That doesn't get you anywhere. It takes everything away from you. Your kids, your house... your entire life. It's a bad drug. It's taking over Native communities lately. It started with t...READ MORE |
 MEDICINE PIPE TRADITION
The Priests Tried to Stop Us
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. Fortunately, a few people...READ MORE |
 AND ANOTHER THING...
I'm Not Done With You Yet
NINETY-NINE percent of the people down in town ON the reservation will sit there and tell you about our spirituality and our culture, but they know nothing about it. They don't know any more than a white man. Only difference is that a white man wasn't told tha...READ MORE |
 DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
We've Been Here for Years
People need to know that we are on the bridge toward allowing spirituality back to the Blackfeet. The ceremonies that we have today are like opening the door, getting a glimpse of something, and then opening the door again to find out if you really saw what yo...READ MORE |
 SNACK ATTACK!
Feeding Blackfeet Kids
I own the Snack Shack. It's a little food shop near the high school here in Browning. I've been running it for four months but today is the first day I opened it as the owner. I just bought the business. This is actually the second business I've owned. I used ...READ MORE |
 FALLING APART
Blackfeet Are Sick of Being Sick
I am the Health Promotion Specialist for the Blackfeet tribe. That just means that I am the community's health educator.
The main health issue facing the rez is diabetes. People's diets here are very bad. Then you have heart disease, a lot of...READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - REZ IDOL
Photos by Patrick O'Dell
Blackfeet Boys Tell All
Brothers Michael and Dean Cross Guns and their friend Clinton Horn are three young Blackfeet men who took a little time to tell you what makes them tick......READ MORE |
 GET OFF YOUR ASS
Forget the Tribal Council
I'm the manager of Nin-Nah-Too-Sii ("Chief Sun" in Blackfoot), an employment-contract managing business. We started because of the huge need we have here on the reservation for work. We have Manpower here, and they are finding work for people, but we are diffe...READ MORE |
 BOXING OUT
Blackfeet Fighters Carry On
Frank Kipp and his brother Thomas are doing a huge service to the Blackfeet reservation. They've opened up a fully equipped boxing club smack-dab in the middle of the harshest part of town. Surrounded by a public housing development that everyone on the rez ca...READ MORE |
 RED APPLE
White on the Inside?
I've never really been exposed to anything different from the reservation. I haven't really traveled. I live pretty isolated here, outside of town, in ranch country.
I hear about all the unemployment in town, but I think that there's always work if you're...READ MORE |
 SHREDDING ON THE REZ
Defiant Are Native Metal
Mark Maggi: I play drums in the band Defiant. We started about 15 years ago, me and Tom. Then I met his sister here and this band has taken off over the last four years. We've been playing out quite a bit. We play classic rock with a metal influence. Bu...READ MORE |
 BOYS AND GIRLS
Something for the Kids
People like to complain here on the reservation. That's what they do because that's what they grew up doing and hearing. Parents say there's nothing for their kids to do here, but this club has been open for two years under my direction....READ MORE |
 WHAT HAPPENED?
The Last Blackfeet Indian...
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. I went to the University of ...READ MORE |
 WELCOME TO BARRA ISLAND
Bored to cerebal palsy of writing about the shite that happens in the grey, boring, bloated worlds of cities and towns, we made this issue all about life in the remote Outer Hebridean island of Barra (in Scotland)....READ MORE |
 I WANT MY DVDS
13 (Tzameti), Integrity DVD & The Joy Of Sects: An A-Z of Cults, Cranks and Religious Eccentrics...READ MORE |
 ISLAND LIFE
Peace and Quiet Versus The Ratrace
When I was young, twenty years ago, families up here were strong. They were very old fashioned and they all worked together to work things out. Families today don't seem to be the same. If a young kid says, "I want a holiday from work" the parents say, "Okay."...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
If you love spending money you haven't got on incredibly cool and expensive psychedelic disco records that you'll play maybe four or five times before filing them away, then New York's just-so Whatever We Want deserves to be your new favourite label. Run by a ...READ MORE |
 STOP KILLING US
A Message To The Mainland
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. Today the...READ MORE |
 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. Imagine Leaving Las Vegas without the hoo...READ MORE |
 GAMES
50 Cent: Bulletproof, Total Overdose & F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon
50 CENT: BULLETPROOF
I’m white, half-British, half-Italian. As I write this I’m wearing regular-fit jeans and listening to Lungfish. Perhaps that’s why I don’t get this game. Everyone’s on the whole “extreme authenticity” thing these days, as if t...READ MORE |
 STARING AT THE SEA
With A Lobster Pot In My Hand
If you live on Barra, the only jobs here are fishing or crofting (farming).
I started fishing here when I was 14 and since then I've made thousands of pounds and become known as the best fisherman on the island...READ MORE |
 GRIMEWATCH
Grimewatch didn't appear last month, but don't freak out, we were only taking a break. In all honesty, we asked one of the grime kids to give us their tidbits and it came back a week late as "Weed, Blank CDs, Cold Drink..." and it just wasn't that funny, so we...READ MORE |
 GIVE ME A SIGNAL
Phone Companies Abandon The Kids
Depending on How you look at it, Barra is either an untainted paradise or the most boring place in the world.
If you're a retired fisherman then it's the first one. If you're a 17-year-old kid transplanted there from the city, then you're...READ MORE |
 VICE PICTURES
The Natives Issue
This is the only graffiti we saw on the island apart from on the bus shelter...READ MORE |
 THA E MATH A BHITH A'
Fuireach Ann Am Barraigh!
Tha e math a bhith a' fuireach ann am Barraigh, gu h-àraid anns an t-samhradh. Bidh a' ghrian ris agus bidh a h-uile duine a' dol gu na tràighean àlainn, geala agus a' snàmh anns a' mhuir. Ged a bhios a' ghrian ris agus ged a tha a' ghainmheach blàth, tha a' ...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
THE TOM SIZEMORE SEX SCANDAL
Do you know why Tom Sizemore will go down in history as one of America’s finest actors? It’s because he refuses to be typecast and he’s not afraid to commit to a role. One would be hard-pressed to imagine how Sizemore ...READ MORE |
 OFFAL THE MENU
Black Pudding And Sheep's Head Soup
One of the main delicacies on Barra is black pudding. It's a tasty sausage of blood, fat and oats. We met a fisherman called Stu and his brother in-law Ian and they told us, over about 15 whiskies, how best to make it. That and another delicacy, sheep's head s...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Natives Issue
DANCING SWORDS
The young girls of the island hop, skip and jump around these in competitions during a dance called "The Sword Dance". The dance dates back to the reign of Malcolm III, King of Scots in the eleventh century. Known in Gaelic as "Canmo...READ MORE |
 NO MORE NUMTEES
Love Overcomes An Ancient Feud
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. ...READ MORE |
 THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT US
Save The Barra Island Plane!
Unless you want to travel by a ferry which often sails through scenes not unlike the opening 30 minutes of The Day After Tomorrow, the only way to get to Barra Island is by a small propeller plane chartered by British...READ MORE |
 RACIST FRIEND
Don't Worry, He's Only Joking
We nearly used this piece as the intro to the issue. It would have worked well as a sensational "Welcome To Barra" piece. Thing is, it would have been totally unrepresentative of the islanders, who, on the whole, treated us amazingly well....READ MORE |
 OLDER TEAM
Mogwai Are Back Back Back
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."...READ MORE |
 TOP PRODUCERS
Jammer Vs. Skepta
While the rest of east London has been busy adding up how many New Era baseball caps they'll be able to afford when that multimillion pound album deal finally comes along, top producers Jammer and Skepta (along with Wiley) have been busy creating and shaping t...READ MORE |
 TRIBAL GATHERING
Yeborobo Love Squats
Yeborobo are a big adorable mess. They're one of these childhood friends bands that reads like the class in Saved By The Bell: the geek, the bully, the goth, the cool kid, the girl, the other geek. You just want to wrap this lot up in cotton wool and snuggle t...READ MORE |
 FEEL THE WRATH
Integrity Do The Punk Rock Timewarp
Integrity came out at a time when hardcore was heading at light speed into Planet Gay Prog Metal Zone and emo college rock was about to engulf the world. Their first EP "In Contrast Of Sin" united crusties, punks and SXE zealots around the world with its viole...READ MORE |
 SECRET SOUNDS
Of Ariel Pink
If you've ever heard an Ariel Pink record you'll know that his music somehow sounds like everything and nothing at the same time. On Doldrums, Worn Copy and now his newie House Arrest, you'll hear the cliches, classics and jingles from the last 40 years of roc...READ MORE |
 TOP ONE NICE ONE
Klaxons Get Sorted
In between 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. While new British guitar music is not short on ...READ MORE |
 MORE CRUNK PLEASE
Metronomy Remixes For Love and Money
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. Not only has he "set indie dancefloors alight" with his stripped-dow...READ MORE |
 WELCOME TO NATIVE LAND
This entire issue of Vice was made on native territory, in different, equally remote parts of the world.
The first was made in Sápmi, the ancient Saami territory. The second half was made in Browning, the Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwester...READ MORE |
 VICE MAIL
Letters - The Natives Issue
Disabling Funny, Snacking For Palestine, WTF is happening to Vice?, The Future Of Writing, Tids Ish-Esque, Insider Art, Golliwog Do Good...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Natives Issue
ARC DE TRIOMPHE IN ICE
People don't just throw shit together in Lappland, they make an effort. Take this ice sculpture for example, it was just sitting in this guy's backyard. It reached up to the roof of his regular house, and had it's own built i...READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - SAAMI BOARDING SCHOOL
Photos by Jenny Källman
In 1964 the board of education decided it was time to right some wrongs-like forcing kids to live in weird, exotic tents instead of houses and giving them shitty teachers-and built modern dormitories for Saami students whose parent...READ MORE |
 TEACHING THE TEACHERS
Finally
The first ever church built in Gällivare was the Lapp Church. They collected one penny of every person in Sweden and built it in 1747. It was a part of the christening of the Saami. That was when the priest arrived. Now Saami are Christians like every one else...READ MORE |
 ARCTIC BIRDIE
Art Is No Biggie
Kulturkraft is a school project that has been initiated to make Swedish, Saami and Finnish culture meet without people cussing at each other. As a part of this project one class of Saami kids are making contributions to an art exhibition that will open later t...READ MORE |
 BOSS DRUM
Tacos and Pizza
I made that skin over there, it's going to be what I bring to the touring exhibition we're going on with our school. The skin is just about finished, all I need are some branches from nature to make a frame. I've made it look like a shaman drum. I started out ...READ MORE |
 RAISING REINDEERS
Track and Field in Sápmi
Most people who race reindeers are Saami. The Finns have been doing it for a long time. For us it started when my dad came into contact with some Finns and together they started the Finnish/Swedish Cup. This was six or seven years ago. Everyone will compete in...READ MORE |
 HERD AND DESTROY
The Only Skater Boy in Gällivare
Up here it's all about metal. You can see for yourself, as soon as a band strays ever so slightly from that monotonous, fast drumming, as soon as they become the least bit inventive, the floor clears at live shows....READ MORE |
 SNOW PLACE LIKE HOME
Resolving The Feuds
I've just finished my education. I have a master of technology, with computers as my major. I've broadened it with business administration and law. I don't want to work in computer technology though, it's way too boring. That's why I'm adding the law. But havi...READ MORE |
 GORY DAYS
MC Amoc is Bringing Back the Dead
My name is Mikkal Morottaja, I'm also known as Amoc and Aanaar master of the ceremony and I'm 21 years old.
I've lived in Inari, Finland, my whole life, except for when I went to senior secondary school and military service in Ivalo...READ MORE |
 THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
One Indian's Drunken Rant
I drive a supply truck for Glacier National Park. Anything from toilet paper to shotguns for the rangers. Depends on what they want me to move. I have to bring the season passes over to where people buy them, big-time. The park has about a million visitors a s...READ MORE |
 I BELIEVE I CAN FLY
Getting Drunk In Denmark
I came to Denmark from my homeland Greenland for the first time at the start of the 60s. Back then there were almost no Inuit in Denmark what so ever. My native language is Kalaallisut, but I speak Danish too. I used to be a hunter, and so was the rest of my f...READ MORE |
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