In 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is celebrating all things American bison. Through a series of ...

“Most of Americans never saw an American bison,” Jim Veldheer, President of Veldheer Tulip Gardens Incorporated told me. That unfortunate fact can easily change though, with a stop at Veldhheer Tulip ...

HETTINGER, N.D. -- A bison bull stripped down to its empty skin, draped over Styrofoam and mounted on wheels, will symbolize a wild animal that once ruled the Plains. There were millions. Then, ...

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. — 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 transfer to the Rosebud ...

On a blustery morning in mid-November, 31-year-old Dawn Thomas approaches a male bison. His eyes are wide with fear, his body held in place by a restraint machine. As Thomas slowly reaches her hands ...

Decades after the last bison vanished from their tribal lands, the Cherokee Nation is part of a nationwide resurgence of Indigenous people seeking to reconnect with the humpbacked, shaggy-haired ...

In a remote corner of the short grass prairie plains south of Malta, something new and something ancient is recreating itself. It’s not simple and not universally supported, but through the efforts of ...

BULL HOLLOW, Okla. (AP) — Ryan Mackey quietly sang a sacred Cherokee verse as he pulled a handful of tobacco out of a zip-close bag. Reaching over a barbed wire fence, he scattered the leaves onto the ...