US to cancel lease on land sacred to Blackfoot Indian tribes

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department plans to cancel a long-suspended oil and gas drilling lease near Glacier National Park that's on land considered sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of the U.S. and Canada, according to court documents filed Monday.
Tribal leaders said such a move would make up for a wrong done to them in 1982, when the government issued the lease without consulting the tribes.