This is more than a wildlife release. It’s the homecoming of a relative who sustained the tribes’ way of life for millennia. For the dozens of Tribal nations that host buffalo herds, each ...

On July 17, the InterTribal Buffalo Council, Native Americans in Philanthropy, The Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund announced the launch of the Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration.

In November, Heinert, 49, became executive director at the InterTribal Buffalo Council (ITBC), which originated in 1992 as the InterTribal Bison Cooperative. This year, ITBC celebrates three decades ...

Bison — which most tribes refer to as buffalo — are an essential part of many Plains tribes' cultural and spiritual life. Now more tribes and tribal nations are working to reestablish bison ...

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About 750 of the buffalo going to tribal lands in the Midwest will come from The Nature Conservancy’s preserves in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, ...

Deep in the heart of central Wyoming’s 2.2 million-acre Wind River Indian reservation, home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribal nations, a dozen wild buffalo are lazily grazing ...

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.

Perhaps even more impactful, however, are three grants of $21.25 million to the InterTribal Buffalo Council to restore and manage native grasslands ecosystems for tribal buffalo restoration in ...

The Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council and its 83 member tribal nations across the U.S. work to return bison to the care of tribes, including in Wisconsin. The Menominee, ...

Since then, tribal hunters alone have killed more than 4,000 bison outside the park. “Buffalo have been subjected to the whims of the stockgrowers and the cattle industry forever since cattle arrived ...