EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist.

The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock as a way to treat them more like elk or deer rather than like cattle. Because the two tribes share the same ...

The push for the bison was founded on Indiana’s history. They were once native to Indiana but were hunted close to extinction ...

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