The thunder of hooves once shook the vast North American plains as millions of bison roamed free, sculpting the landscape in their wake. Today, after a near tragedy of extinction, these magnificent ...

descendants of the original herds that once astonished visitors to the Great Plains and made the bison the symbol of American abundance. Until, that is, rampant hunting made it a symbol of ...

James Bailey, retired professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, considers the past, present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

Despite that, there was some sort of connection, an almost spiritual link, between the bison and me. To the Native people who call the Plains home – the Lakota, Comanche, Cheyenne ...

Yellowstone National Park has recorded the year’s first violent encounter between a visitor and bison, just weeks into the ...

Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their ... On the northern Great Plains where my ancestors lived bison grazed on different grasses, in different seasons ...

The North American grasslands and bison evolved with the Plains Tribal Nations. There is a reciprocal relationship between these Indigenous peoples, bison and the land, with each a careful steward of ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

But there are also, though fewer, things of a darker mien, artifacts revealing caliginous corners of American history ... s substitute for the bison of the Great Plains, that source of life ...

For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison ... By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one of the ...