Crowded living arrangements are common in Indian Country, where housing supply is severely limited, mortgage financing is hard to come by, developers are disincentivized to build new housing, and federal funding doesn’t come close to meeting community development and rental-management needs.
MTFP reporter Nora Mabie and Missoulian photojournalist Ben Allan Smith were invited to spend time with Blackfeet Reservation resident Jade-Heather Ackerman and her family last winter. These photos offer a glimpse of the home life shared by thousands of Indigenous families across Montana.
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