Blackfoot

Department of Indian Affairs constructed a slaughterhouse on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and required tribal members to provide the factory's labor in exchange for its beef.

Gladstone, who is of Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, made Oscar history earlier this year as the first Native American to be nominated for lead actress for her performance in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

“The loudest screams,” wrote a Variety reporter at the time, “were directed at the film’s discovery”: Gladstone, who lived as a child on Montana’s Blackfeet Reservation and graduated in 2004 from Mountlake Terrace High School.

Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy have long fought to maintain control over their land and water.

The 37-year-old actor, who is of Blackfeet and Nimíipuu heritage, was raised in Montana on the Blackfeet Nation reservation and in Seattle.