Possible to run nichrome at very low voltage?
Get a power supply that has a current limit, and drive the wire in current mode.  The voltage will end up at whatever it needs to be for the current you want.  All you need to do is set the voltage high enough so that the power supply hits the current limit first.  I would not recommend putting a resistor in series, it would dissipate a huge amount of heat.  You probably want to make sure you're using very thick wires as well so that they don't dissipate too much power.  

Another possible solution to consider is getting a longer piece of nichrome and folding it back on itself a few times or twisting it into a narrow coil.  The idea is to increase the length of the wire (and the the overall resistance) so that you don't have to use such a large current.  

Also, you're off by a factor of 10 somewhere, 0.2657 ohms per foot would be 0.022 ohms for the wire.  Which is quite low.