#The American Buffalo

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The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink.

For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison) have evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal. The stories of Native people anchor the series, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne of the Southern Plains; the Lakota, Salish, Kootenai, Mandan-Hidatsa, and Blackfeet from the Northern Plains; and others.

A New Documentary from Ken Burns Premieres October 16

Plot twist spoiler: They're actually bison all along! (The scientific name was the clue.) It bugs me.

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THE AMERICAN BUFFALO (2023; dir. Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan)

Episode One: “Blood Memory”

There is no story anywhere in world history that involves as large a destruction of wild animals as happened in North America – in the Western United States in particular –between 1800 and 1890.

– Dan Flores, American cultural and environmental historian

A cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell... A death wind for my people.

– Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota leader

We have seen the Indian and the game retreat before the white man and the cattle, and beheld the tide of settlement move forward, which threatens before long to leave no portion of our vast territory unbroken by the farmer's plow or untrodden by his flocks. There is one spot left: a single rock about which this tide will break, and past which it will sweep, leaving it undefiled by the unsightly traces of civilization. Here in this Yellowstone Park, the large game of the West will be preserved from extermination in this, their last refuge.

– George Bird Grinnell, American conservationist and anthropologist

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On The Jukebox: "The American Buffalo: A Film By Ken Burns (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"

Track listing as follows:

Joseph Firecrow - "Horse Stealing Song"

Peter Ostroushko - "After The Buffalo Hunt"

Will Duncan and Bobby Horton - "The Mighty Buffalo"

Lakota Thunder - "Way Of Life"

Keith Bear - "All Through The Night"

Bobby Horton - "Pristine"

Skip Gorman - "Buffalo Hump"

Larry Unger - "Two Rivers"

Gary Stroutsos - "Adobe Walls"

Will Duncan and Bobby Horton - "On The Range"

Joseph Firecrow - "Sundance Horses"

Randy Granger - "Ghost Dancers"

Lakota Thunder - "Pehin Hanska"

Bobby Horton - "Mary Ann"

Bobby Horton - "Shady Grove/I Will Arise"

Bobby Horton - "Land Of Rest"

Robbie Robertson - "Coyote Dance"

Peter Ostroushko - "Psalm Of The Prairie"

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I'm a slut for lana's unreleased

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“The Herd on the Move”—William Jacob Hays.

This painting simultaneously breaks my heart and fills me with awe and hope. When people speak about how prevalent the bison were across Turtle Island I’m not sure if it fully HITS just how many were slaughtered, how much this land relied on them for proper ecological balance….

if we want our land to thrive, if we want the next seven generations to survive then we must help the bison (and the indigenous peoples who love/rely on them) to expand and grow until they are once again found all across the land.

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buffalo 66 (1998)

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Somehow they are all me

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On the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation west of Brandon, Man., schoolchildren are throwing pumpkins into a bison pen, a ceremony and sign of respect to an animal that has deep spiritual significance for Indigenous culture and identity. Community leaders are also educating a new generation about how the bison, known in these parts as buffalo, has important implications for the future of the Prairies – rehabilitating natural grasslands and conserving water in a time of climate change. "The significance of the buffalo goes back hundreds of years. These animals have saved our lives," said Anthony Tacan, a band councillor whose family is the keeper of this herd. "They provided food and weapons out of the bones, tools, the hides for clothing, the teepees. It did everything for us. So going forward, we decided it's our turn to give back. It's our turn to look after them."

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Since so many really liked the pictures of the buffaloes I saw during my road trip, here’s a video of a buffalo calf that my mom filmed ^ ^

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American Bison On The Prairies of Oklahoma

Source Me laf@ilyF ❤️

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O to be outside and huge and naked

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13. Where the Buffalo Roam

shout out to yellowstone national park bison photo gallery for inspiration