The population of bison, North America's signature charismatic mammal, went from around 60 million in 1800 to just 300 by the dawn of the 20th century. Therein lies one hell of a story, told ...

The Emmy Award-winning film “Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison” is meant to be provocative. “The driving thesis of the film: Why is it the most iconic of North American animals has no ...

In the new two-part, four-hour PBS documentary “The American Buffalo,” directed by Ken Burns, the acclaimed 69-year-old filmmaker whose previous subjects include “Baseball,” “Country Music,” “Brooklyn ...

A powerful new documentary with deep roots in Montana and Indigenous storytelling is set to make its national debut this fall. Bring Them Home (Blackfeet: Aiskó ...

In 1872, when Congress established the world’s first national park near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River, the principal selling point was its incomparable array of spouting geysers, boiling mud ...

Sixty million American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America until 1889, when they were almost driven to extinction. 60 million American bison, commonly ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped ...