Over 30 million buffalo once inhabited North America’s Great Plains. Unfortunately, almost all free-ranging bison have disappeared after decades of devastation due to loss of habitat, natural resources, and human impact and conflict.
More than 100 years later, momentum is building to restore bison to the American West, and many Tribally-led efforts are at the forefront.
A Buffalo Story follows the work of Jason Baldes, Eastern Shoshone Tribe Member and the Tribal Buffalo Program Director for the National Wildlife Federation’s Tribal Partnerships, to restore buffalo as wildlife to the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation.
This coming home story showcases how buffalo ecosystems can be reimagined today. This stunning film and the keystone species at the heart of it provide important lessons of redemption and a blueprint for healthier human relationships with wild animals and wild places.
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