Bison — which most tribes refer to as buffalo — are an essential part of many Plains tribes' cultural and spiritual life. Now ...

Many driving from the east find their eyes drawn to the architecture of Soaring Plains, the modern, award-winning, ...

Founder Effects: After the slaughter culminating in the 1880s, there were only about 100 bison left in the Great Plains and Yellowstone Park. Genetic diversity from the eastern United States, most of ...

As the buffalo were exterminated, Tribes suffered forced relocations onto reservations, lost prosperity, and starvation.

This allowed native populations to survive on the plains with a food source that could be relied upon. But it was not just the meat the Native Americans used when they killed bison. All the animal ...

Beyond the technology, the United States government also encouraged the slaughter of the buffalo as a strategy to conquer the American plains Indians. American General Phil Sheridan said ...

Jeff Martin likes to think of the Great Plains as the “bison basket.” There are approximately 400,000 bison across North ...

In an orgy of unprecedented slaughter, the hunters most often stripped off the dead bison’s hide and left ... could be found in tiny pockets of the Plains, but were being steadily picked off ...

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the current numbers of Plains bison are 420,000 in commercial ... the animal’s remains, and their meat provided food. Europeans saw the potential ...