In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison ...

The sun hangs low over the horizon as a black pickup crunches the gravel road. As the truck comes to a stop, bright dark eyes ...

The study concludes that the loss set the bison nations on a fundamentally different trajectory that continues to this day. The picture that tells a little-known chapter of American history Native ...

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 ...

Despite the bisons' usefulness, estimates put the Native American hunters' take at less than 100,000 a year, hardly making a dent on the early 1800s population of between 30 and 60 million bison.

and redemption – a remarkable history that was simultaneously unique, yet so typical. The modern American bison (Bison bison) emerged from larger, ancient predecessors approximately five ...

circa 1930: An American bison. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty ... spark a national dialogue around our painful American history, and offer a promising and encouraging roadmap for the future.

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 ...

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Max Waugh (USA) catches sight of a plains bison kicking up flurries of snow over its ...

Once the trailer is lined up with a pen overgrown with tall grass, the animal bursts out, an American bison in all its six-foot, shaggy-headed, humped-shoulder glory. For Pogue, a member of the ...