Despite being pushed to the brink of extinction, the American buffalo is fundamental to the fabric of America, but it's not ...

According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, bison once roamed the Great Plains in the ...

They also fought the Native tribes in the Southwest and Great Plains. Legend has it that the American Indian tribes who fought these "Buffalo Soldiers" gave them their now-legendary nickname.

A thousand years after the West Coast culture took shape, around 6,000 BC, a plains culture formed around the buffalo. The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and ...

and a new demand for buffalo hides to be used in the belts driving industrial machines back East, brought thousands of hide hunters to the Great Plains. In just over a decade the number of bison ...

“The buffalo were taking care of Native Americans ... The spread of horses on the Great Plains in 1680 onward gave tribes a new, highly efficient means of pursuing their prey.

It is images such as George Catlin’s “Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances ... this exact scene on the Upper Missouri of the Great Plains in 1832. Because of its apparent genuineness, the ...

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is located in southern Alberta, Canada, where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains. It is the best preserved example of the communal hunting ...

its importance to the Native Americans and the Great Plains landscape, its impending extinction and the struggles to save the magnificent mammals. By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeters on ...

where it could spawn tornadoes in the South and dump heavy snow across the parts of the Great Plains and Upper Midwest, creating blizzard conditions. The ominous forecast comes as temperatures hit ...

BUNKER HILL – Smoky Hills PBS is proud to announce the return of Cottonwood Connections for its highly anticipated 6th season ...

Smoky Hills PBS announces the return of Cottonwood Connections for its sixth season, premiering Sunday, April 6 at 6 PM.