bison

Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver were transferred to several tribes from across the Great Plains, in the latest example of Native Americans reclaiming stewardship over animals their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.

Bison are among the most emblematic animals of the American West. Many Indigenous peoples relied on them for survival. Some, such as the Zuni, have oral histories of hunting them and performing a Buffalo Dance ceremony. Bison are known primarily as Plains animals, but historically they did extend into the Southwest.

Tribes now have a collective 20,000 bison and that’s been growing steadily along with a desire among many Native Americans to reclaim stewardship of an animal their predecessors lived alongside and depended upon for millennia.

Wildlife managers at Grand Canyon National Park say nearly 60 bison have been relocated from the north rim to Oklahoma and South Dakota through the InterTribal Buffalo Council. It’s part of a larger plan to reduce herd size as well as the animals’ environmental impact on the park.

Wildlife managers at Grand Canyon National Park have relocated nearly 60 bison from the North Rim to tribal lands elsewhere in the U.S.

Grand Canyon National Park has decided not to extend a pilot project this fall that used volunteers to kill bison as a way to downsize the herd.

Grand Canyon National Park officials say efforts to reduce the population of bison near the North Rim have ended for the year. They say 36 animals from the Kaibab Plateau herd were removed through live capture and five were killed by volunteer hunters.

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