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First Nation, take advantage of the
people power of the Blood Tribe. And
in return, Blood Tribe youth would re-
ceive training related to oil sands work
in conjunction with opportunities to
Fort McKay. The Blood Tribe was hap-
py to see its members be able to learn
and use skills in new opportunities
with Fort McKay First Nation.
“
This partnership has been ex-
tremely successful so far—we just
don’t have enough opportunities for
our people, and Fort McKay needs the
people that we have,” Crow adds.
The Blood Tribe has established
other notable partnerships through
their economic development work.
The Blood Tribe Agricultural Pro-
gram (BTAP) is very successful with
many new projects on the go. “Our
agricultural program is always grow-
ing, and has been providing us with
new opportunities for development,”
Crow says. The Blood Tribe Agricul-
tural Project (1991) was incorporated
on June 25, 1991, in order to promote,
encourage and enhance agricultural
investment in the Blood tribe, and to
create incentives for investment and
job creation. “We work together with
Aohkii Investment Property Manage-
ment, the Blood Tribe Forage Process-
ing Plant, Mataki Farms, the Sawkee
Feedlot, and the Blood Band Ranch
to improve the well-being and wealth
of our members,” the BTAP website
notes. The BTAP seeks new invest-
ment, markets, management expertise
and technology to contribute to eco-
nomic growth.
Kainaiwa Resources Inc. (KRI),
Blood Tribe’s energy entity, has been
very successful as well offering op-
portunities for people. KRI’s mandate
is to “create and continually increase
revenue from oil and gas, and mining
activities, while conducting all activi-
ties in the safest, most environmentally
responsible and regulatory compliant
manner possible with the highest stan-
dards of integrity.”
In 2011, the organization an-
nounced that it formed Kainai Energy,
in partnership with Native American
Resource Partners LLC (“NARP”). This
partnership has allowed the Blood
Tribe to “capitalize on its oil and gas
participation rights designated in two
recent joint venture agreements with
leading industry oil and gas operat-
ing companies and enables the Blood
Tribe to secure both the expertise and
investment capital necessary to evalu-
ate and fund associated exploration
and development costs,” said a media
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