The answers are as inspiring as the prairie itself. Once, tallgrass prairies ... you can almost hear echoes of bison herds and the footsteps of indigenous peoples who once called the prairie ...

If you want to know what a great expanse of this country looked like before the cacophony of modern life took over, consider a trip to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas. The Nature ...

Miles of prairie stretched out across the ... which will “help fight this changing climate.” Bison, called buffalo by some Indigenous peoples, are mammoth creatures. Weighing up to 2,000 ...

A paper published this week in the journal PNAS measures the ripple effects of the giant grazers on the tallgrass prairie ... see how people could see this as a cattle versus bison story ...

Now, decades of diligence and data show a perhaps surprising result: When bison were allowed to graze through patches of tallgrass prairie ... “As Native people, as we restore this connection ...

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 ...

The heart of the American Midwest was one of the most important ecological and cultural borderland areas in North America for Indigenous ... transformation of the tallgrass prairie landscape created ...

The indigenous Blackfeet ... government policy replaced bison and native people with ranches, white settlement and cattle. For a hundred years, cattle claimed the prairie as their own.

Haskell Indian Nation University (HINU) students are amplifying Indigenous knowledge while interning at the Prairie Park Nature ... Chesarek said Indigenous people have personal, cultural and ...