By contrast, on native range south of Canada there are about 17,000 bison in 45 “conservation ... present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

Despite being pushed to the brink of extinction, the American buffalo is fundamental to the fabric of America, but it's not ...

Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their horses “at full speed” hunting hundreds of bison. This depiction of man versus beast stands out against the ...

The natural environment helped to shape the people's thinking and cultures as they viewed the world and the Universe in a native ... oxen. Bison more appropriately describes the North American ...

A bison's death ... the North American grassland. Replicating historical conditions, as some researchers and conservationists have tried to do, has been hard because most native prairie is ...

But the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is home to one of the largest collections of a Native American ... Indians buffalo robes. Bison hides had grown scarce as herds ...

Settlers killed the bison to sell their skins, and the U.S. military used the mass slaughter of the buffalo as a way to weaken and undermine the Native American tribes that relied on the animal ...

and scenes of Native American life, as it both recorded images of a rapidly diminishing way of life for posterity, but also emphasized the deviance of such ceremonies from the rapidly spreading ...