Cherokee Nation to receive up to 50 more bison for its herd – Tulsa World
KENWOOD — A shipment of up to 50 bison arriving in Delaware County on Thursday will nearly double the Cherokee Nation’s bison herd. The bison are making the 900-mile trek from Badlands, South Dakota,...
View ArticleOfficials work to make the bison an official American icon – Washington Times
CUSTER, S.D. (AP) – For the spectators at the 50th annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup, the thundering hooves and front-heavy gait of the shaggy, horned beasts will be highly symbolic. The sight...
View ArticleReintroduction of buffalo in Montana gains steam from native voices | Native...
ASHLAND, Mont. –– Marsha Small, a Northern Cheyenne, has had the “summer of a lifetime”. Her assignment: traveling across Montana Indian Country, hitting all the annual tribal Pow Wows and celebrations...
View ArticleTribes continue quest to manage, operate National Bison Range
MOIESE – Will a third time be a charm? The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes continue to talk with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about another annual funding agreement that would transfer...
View ArticleBuffalo auction set at Wichita Mountains refuge – Tulsa World
CACHE (AP) — The annual auction of buffalo at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma is scheduled later this week. The 44th annual auction is to begin at noon Thursday at the...
View ArticleHomecoming: Native Americans celebrate bison’s return to northern Colorado
As sweet smoke rose from a tiny cast-iron pan and nervous bison stomped in their pen, Kiowa elder John Emhoolah crooned a blessing to the beasts. Drumbeats pulsed with heartbeats during an ancient...
View ArticleThe irony of the annual Black Hills Buffalo Roundup| Native Sun News
There is a historic marker west of Custer, S.D. that reads in part: “ Historic Sites, Buffalo Rock – Site where the last buffalo was killed in the Black Hills in 1887 by Joe Humphreus, Bob Patterson –...
View Article‘Blessing of the Buffalo’
“Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam …” may have been on visitors’ minds over the weekend as they viewed many of the animals at the special “Blessing of the Buffalo” event in Georgetown. The...
View ArticleYellowstone park proposes killing 1,000 bison this winter – The Washington Post
BILLINGS, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park proposes to kill roughly 1,000 wild bison this winter — mostly calves and females — as officials seek to reduce the animals’ annual migration into Montana....
View ArticleYellowstone National Park softens on bison slaughter targets; tribes push for...
At a daylong meeting at Chico Hot Springs on Thursday, agencies involved in bison management reached something of an impasse over exactly when Yellowstone National Park would start trapping bison for...
View ArticleBison plan draws comments from around nation, world
Montanans may be personally invested in the outcome of negotiations between Yellowstone National Park and the State of Montana about a new bison management plan, but Californians have contributed more...
View ArticleMontana mulls restoration of bison from Yellowstone herds
(Reuters) – The shaggy offspring of the United States’ only wild, purebred herd of bison are pitting Montana conservationists, federal wildlife managers, ranchers and Native American tribes against...
View ArticleCannonball Ranch Buffalo sale draws widespread interest
CANNONBALL RANCH — Among the biggest buffalo sales of the year anywhere in the country will be staged Saturday in sweeping butte country at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers 35 miles...
View ArticleMontana governor allows bison to roam outside Yellowstone National Park
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wild bison will be allowed to migrate out of Yellowstone National Park and stay in parts of Montana year-round under a Tuesday move by Gov. Steve Bullock that breaks a...
View ArticleBLM plans to approve American Prairie Reserve’s bison-grazing request
The Bureau of Land Management has approved a request from the American Prairie Reserve to change a grazing permit on the 13,000-acre Flat Creek allotment in northeastern Montana to allow bison to graze...
View ArticleThe buffalo hunt: a Native American photographer joins the cull
Every winter the small town of Gardiner, Montana, welcomes Native American tribal members from around the Inland Northwest. Hospitality businesses are happy to see them arrive during the off-season,...
View ArticleYellowstone bison sent to slaughter as park trims herd
Associated Press GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park started shipping many of its famous wild bison to slaughter Wednesday to drive down the size of the park’s herds and respond to...
View ArticleState bison experts show concern as Yellowstone thins herd
By EBONI GRAHAMIn an effort to reduce the herd and minimize the spread of disease, Yellowstone National Park started shipping about 150 of its wild bison to slaughter on Wednesday. But state wildlife...
View ArticleThe Latest: Hunters take more than 400 Yellowstone bison
GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on Yellowstone National Park sending wild bison to slaughter (all times local): 2 p.m. Click Here! Hunters have killed more than 400 wild bison migrating from...
View ArticleCherokee Nation Natural Resources updates officials about bison
BY ROGER GRAHAM BULL HOLLOW, Okla. – On March 8, Cherokee Nation Natural Resources employees hosted a bison chili feed at their north station to show tribal officials how far the tribe’s bison project...
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