The transfer is part of an ongoing effort to return the animals to their native homes and support conservation efforts on tribal land.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from ...

Tribally run management and a deal with Yellowstone National Park are helping forge a future for coexisting with the iconic ...

Today, bison (commonly called “buffalo”) are once again thriving and providing for Indigenous people. The nonprofit Texas ...

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

The American bison (Bison bison), often called the American buffalo in North America, is a large grazing mammal native to the continent’s grasslands and prairies. Once numbering in the tens of ...

Yellowstone National Park officials said Friday a rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans has not been seen since its birth on June 4. The birth of the white buffalo, which fulfilled a Lakota ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in an occasional series on threatened and endangered species. Though just about everyone refers to them as “buffalo,” they are only remotely related to the water ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped out. Today, Department of Labor lands currently support 17 bison herds in 12 ...