Today, there are 14 states with a city or town named Buffalo, only five of them in the West. By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which comes from the Latin word for “wild ...

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 ...

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom ...

It is images such as George Catlin’s “Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances” that engages our imagination of the unique relationship between Indigenous peoples and bison. Catlin wrote that he ...

Tens of millions of American bison, often called buffalo, were once abundant across the plains and as far east as New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the National Park Service.

Yet the National Park Service is only a quarter of the way toward its proposal to remove up to 1,375 animals this season.

Bison (sometimes called buffalo) are the largest land animal in North America, and are a part of the same family as cattle—bovidae. Bison are not just a traditional food source, but they were also a ...

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 ...