The move begins to restore wild bison to the Great Plains and the Plains Indians ... a Harvard professor of Native American history, “and that has the effect of letting the others off the ...

The thunder of hooves once shook the vast North American plains as millions ... Few stories in natural history are as dramatic—or as inspiring—as that of the bison. Their journey from the ...

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 ...

Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American ... grasses, bison, and people. Bison lived for the past 10,000 years on the rich grasslands of the Great Plains of North America ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by aboriginal peoples of the North American plains for nearly 6,000 ...

Max Waugh (USA) catches sight of a plains bison kicking up flurries of snow over its bulky frame in Yellowstone National Park, USA. From his vehicle Max saw the bison start to head downhill towards ...