Learn American bison facts about recovering bison populations to heal grasslands and help create habitats for other wildlife.

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 ...

Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from beneath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral where 100 wild bison awaited ... reestablish on Native American lands.

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 ...

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 ...

The organization that he, President Theodore Roosevelt and others formed in 1905 to help save the animal from extinction was named the American Bison Association. But still, the usage of ...

The Newberry is home to one of the strongest collections of Native American archival materials ... of people in the Great Plains painting on bison and other animal hides to decorate their everyday ...