In the 1870s, millions of plains buffalo in Canada and the United States were killed for sport, profit and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie tribes for ...

Nearly one year after the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation became the first federally recognized Native American nation in ...

Tribes had lived a largely nomadic life while following the herds across the prairies. At one time, there had been as many as 50 million buffalo on the North American plains. Even in the early ...