As part of a tribal owned economic initiative, the factory opened in 1972, but closed in the early 2000s.
The Blackfeet Indian writing company is the most popular pencil; however, they were bought out to a private firm in 1992.
The company made, among other products, the cedar wood "The Blackfeet Indian Pencil" in various hardnesses.
The "swagger stick" ballpoint pen was, for a time, an official writing implement of the US Senate.
[6] Composer John Luther Adams still uses Blackfeet Indian pencils when writing music.