Plan to restore American bison to Badlands National Park

Fine initiative. Along with the black footed ferret, the prairie dogs ...

Perhaps even wolves, and wolverine at some point?
 
Spectacular place, I'd never heard of it until I went there, thought there were some bison there already.
 
chizlit said:
And also the US forces killed off the Sioux.
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I was merely trying to be polite here. It is one of the blacker pages in US American history. I myself have several books on North American Indian history ..., so no need to enligthen me here (f.i. the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn and the Massacre of Wounded Knee). An American poet was then propelled in the last century to proclaim ""I shall not be here/I shall rise and pass/Bury my heart at Wounded Knee,", allthough for all good purposes this had nothing to do with the events that unfolded at Wounded Knee or since. It just sticks to the mind.

Having said this: I do see this as an attempt at redress for the Oglala Sioux and re-establishments of traditions so entwinned with the big herds of bison in the Badlands and beyond and their annual migratory return. For sure some bison are already on the Reservations but this is a major initiative to bring the iconic animal species of the American West back into the fold.
 
Yes, let's get back on topic; I'm sure we can all agree that Europeans are blood-thirsty savages....

Here in Alaska, Native Groups have been involved in the establishment of Bison in the Aleutians (or nearby island groups), the Chitna River Valley, and, shortly, the Wood Bison on Athabascan Lands west of Fairbanks.

The projects may be thought of as re-wilding or re-introduction depending on the sub-species.

There is evidence that the Wood Bison survived through the Russian Era and may have held on in remote areas until 1890's.

Herds have been re-established on Native Lands in Montana as well.
 
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Actually I wasn't having a go at you at all, just happened that yours was the comment I quoted.
I too know about Native American issues (I made it part of my history exam at school)and have a friend whose grandparents lived on a Lakota reservation.
I'm pleased that at long last the original animals and peoples are getting back something that was taken from them.

Kifaru Bwana said:
I was merely trying to be polite here. It is one of the blacker pages in US American history. I myself have several books on North American Indian history ..., so no need to enligthen me here (f.i. the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn and the Massacre of Wounded Knee). An American poet was then propelled in the last century to proclaim ""I shall not be here/I shall rise and pass/Bury my heart at Wounded Knee,", allthough for all good purposes this had nothing to do with the events that unfolded at Wounded Knee or since. It just sticks to the mind.

Having said this: I do see this as an attempt at redress for the Oglala Sioux and re-establishments of traditions so entwinned with the big herds of bison in the Badlands and beyond and their annual migratory return. For sure some bison are already on the Reservations but this is a major initiative to bring the iconic animal species of the American West back into the fold.
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