Pemmican Empire traces the history of the unsustainable food-market hunt on the plains, which, once established ... one that created asymmetric power among traders and informed the bioregional history ...

Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their horses “at full speed” hunting hundreds of bison. This depiction of man versus beast stands out against the ...

The deep, undisturbed layers of animal bones (largely American Bison) represent nearly 6,000 years of continuous occupation with one lengthy period of unexplained interrupted hunting. This landscape ...

The animals were taken near Yellowstone in hunts that express ... long-standing treaty rights. Bison loom large as sacred animals in traditional Native American customs and rituals.

Efforts are being made to develop the capacity of Native tribes to manage bison and bison habitats. An Indigenous scholar ...