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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 the rez so we count him in.)...
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  FRY BREAD POWER
It's Dangerously DeliciousIndians 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 there'd ever be a buffalo ever again so ...
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 TIDBITS
Sifting Through Blackfeet StuffOPERATION 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. ...
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 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, and you are guaranteed to see a...
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 VICE PICS
Making the Scene on the RezGoing for it at the Warbonnet on a Friday night. It was the girl on the right's birthday....
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 ONE WORLD, ONE LOVE
Just Kidding, We're DifferentAll 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....
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 REZ DAWG!
Packs of MascotsDogs 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, and the present....
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 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 better....
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 GRIZZLY GIRL
I Got MauledOn 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 Glacier National Park. Some of our friends we...
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 ARMY REZERVE
Heading to IraqI'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 schooling. I studied for 13 weeks in Fort...
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 NO MORE FIREWATER
Getting Sober for the Next GenerationI 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 the adults and now it's getting down to t...
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 MEDICINE PIPE TRADITION
The Priests Tried to Stop UsThe 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 were able to hold onto and pass down ou...
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 AND ANOTHER THING...
I'm Not Done With You YetNINETY-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 that it was witchcraft, that it was against...
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 DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
We've Been Here for YearsPeople 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 you thought you'd seen. We have the Medici...
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 SNACK ATTACK!
Feeding Blackfeet KidsI 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 to run a pizza delivery company here in ...
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 FALLING APART
Blackfeet Are Sick of Being SickI 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 ...
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 VICE PICS - PART 2
Sightseeing on the RezThat means "I am Pikuni." Pikuni is another word for Blackfeet....
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 VICE FASHION - REZ IDOL
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......
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 GET OFF YOUR ASS
Forget the Tribal CouncilI'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 different from them in that we're a for-profi...
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 BOXING OUT
Blackfeet Fighters Carry OnFrank 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 calls "the Flintstones" because of its sub...
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 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 willing to work. With our people, N...
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 SHREDDING ON THE REZ
Defiant Are Native MetalMark 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. But around here you have to play a lot of ...
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 BOYS AND GIRLS
Something for the KidsPeople 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....
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 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 Montana in Missoula because that's where...
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 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)....
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 I WANT MY DVDS
13 (Tzameti)
Directed by Gela Babluani
Starring Georges Babluani
This vicious little French/Georgian thriller, which won a few prestigious festival awards last year for best debut feature for its first-time director, ...
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 ISLAND LIFE
Peace and Quiet Versus The RatraceWhen 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."...
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 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 well-connected guy named Carlos, Whateve...
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 STOP KILLING US
A Message To The MainlandYou 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 they are involved in every single part of y...
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 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 hookers, dealers, gamblers and losers and r...
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 GAMES
50 Cent: Bulletproof
Vivendi Universal
Platform: PS2, Xbox
Genre: Gangsta Brawler/Adventure
I'm white, half-British, half-Italian. As I write this I'm wearing regular-fit jeans and listening to Lungfish. ...
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 STARING AT THE SEA
With A Lobster Pot In My HandIf 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....
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 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'll leave it to the online bloggers to p...
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 GIVE ME A SIGNAL
Phone Companies Abandon The KidsDepending 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...
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 VICE PICTURES
This is the only graffiti we saw on the island apart from on the bus shelter....
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 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' mhuir glè fhuar–ach cha bhith sin gar st...
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 SKINEMA
The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal
Vivid.com
Dir: Tom Sizemore
Rating: 11
Do you know why Tom Sizemore will go down in history as one of America's finest actors? ...
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 OFFAL THE MENU
Black Pudding And Sheep's Head SoupOne 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 soup....
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 TIDBITS
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 "Canmore" meaning "Great Head", he allegedly d...
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 NO MORE NUMTEES
Love Overcomes An Ancient FeudI 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. ...
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 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...
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 RACIST FRIEND
Don't Worry, He's Only JokingWe 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....
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 OLDER TEAM
Mogwai Are Back Back BackNever 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."...
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 TOP PRODUCERS
Jammer Vs. SkeptaWhile 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 the sound that white middle-class journal...
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 TRIBAL GATHERING
Yeborobo Love SquatsYeborobo 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 them. They all grew-up in Maidstone in Ke...
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 FEEL THE WRATH
Integrity Do The Punk Rock TimewarpIntegrity 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 violence and brutality. One of the main reaso...
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 SECRET SOUNDS
Of Ariel PinkIf 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 rock and pop boiled up inside Pink's feveri...
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 TOP ONE NICE ONE
Klaxons Get SortedIn 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 homage right now, the world of rave has ...
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 MORE CRUNK PLEASE
Metronomy Remixes For Love and MoneyMetronomy 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-down'n'pumped-up remixes for Franz Ferdinan...
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 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 northwestern Montana, USA....
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 VICE MAIL
NOMENCLATURE
Hey Vice,
Why is there always a reference to Cody Critcheloe in your magazine? Is it some kind of joke? Do you even know if he reads it?...
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 TIDBITS
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 in lighting system which switched on and ...
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 VICE FASHION - SAAMI BOARDING SCHOOL
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 parents lived far away. Later on the students became too many to house in o...
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 TEACHING THE TEACHERS
FinallyThe 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, though there are still people who poss...
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 ARCTIC BIRDIE
Art Is No BiggieKulturkraft 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 this spring. Art was one of last things o...
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 BOSS DRUM
Tacos and PizzaI 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 with the fishes, real detailed, but then...
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 RAISING REINDEERS
Track and Field in SápmiMost 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 a sort of league and get points accordi...
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 HERD AND DESTROY
The Only Skater Boy in GällivareUp 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....
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 SNOW PLACE LIKE HOME
Resolving The FeudsI'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 having an education is always good on paper,...
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 TRUE NORTHERN DEATH METAL
Not Just All TalkI have to be honest with you, I never thought my Saami heritage would be to my advantage when it comes to music....
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 GORY DAYS
MC Amoc is Bringing Back the DeadMy 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...
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 THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
One Indian's Drunken RantI 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 season....
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 I BELIEVE I CAN FLY
Getting Drunk In DenmarkI 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 family, but we moved to Nuuk when we were...
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