The modern American bison (Bison bison) emerged from larger, ancient predecessors approximately five thousand to ten thousand years ago and soon became a truly continental presence, ranging across ...

The animals were taken near Yellowstone in hunts that express ... long-standing treaty rights. Bison loom large as sacred animals in traditional Native American customs and rituals.

Bison have long been a symbol of the American West, and at one time, there were around 30 to 60 million of these majestic ...

Such ceremonies preceded bear hunts that, if successful ... but also emphasized the deviance of such ceremonies from the rapidly spreading Euro-American Christian norm. Bison horns and skin, horse ...

By the early 1900s, American bison numbers had been reduced by 99.9% across North America and only 23 wild bison were known ...

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 ...

In 1924, during Hollywood’s first golden age, 14 American bison arrived on Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. The animals were to appear in two movies being filmed on ...

Tens of millions of bison roamed the Great Plains and the West until the arrival of European American settlers, who systematically decimated the herds. By the early 1800s, bison no longer existed ...