The American bison (Bison bison) or "buffalo" is one of the most famous animals of the American West. Providing food and hides to the early Indians, it was almost completely eliminated by hunters, and now only remnant populations exist...

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Melmer, David Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 05-12-2003 DEADWOOD, S.D. - Actor Kevin Costner visited the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota 30 years ago as a teenager. He returned to make a movie, and then to create a resort, a train and...

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Long thought to be purebred, the wild bison of Santa Catalina Island in fact have a little bit of cow in them, the first DNA analysis of the animals found. Nearly half of the 98 American bison shipped off the island in 2004 have cattle...

After an absence of more than a century, wild bison were returned to Colorado's Front Range on Saturday in full view of Denver's skyline.Sixteen buffalo from the National Bison Range in northwestern Montana were released in an enclosed 1,400-acre section of a wildlife refuge that...