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The Wind River Water and Buffalo Alliance is looking for a graphic artist to help design their logo. The coalition is based in Fort Washakie on the Wind River Reservation and is made up of tribal agencies, tribal councils and nonprofits working to advance Indigenous-centered conservation.
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Earlier this year, the Eastern Shoshone tribe in Wyoming received a family group of 10 animals from the bison conservation transfer program.
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The Wiggins Fork Bison Jumps Complex is a high-elevation area in the Absaroka Mountains where different Indigenous tribes worked with and enhanced the landscape’s topography to drive bison off cliffs for harvesting. In comparison to other jumps throughout the state, the site outside of Dubois is big, old, and highly sophisticated, with multiple stone-circle campsites and seven different bison jump sites.
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The Eastern Shoshone Tribe, Northern Arapaho Tribe, and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition recently received a hefty grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to support conservation efforts on the Wind River Reservation. The more than $600,000 grant comes from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the America the Beautiful Initiative, and will go towards bison reintroduction, habitat restoration, and climate resilience projects in the area.
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On a bright Wednesday morning in September, forty or so sleepy-eyed high school students from Wyoming Indian High School sit at folding plastic tables. They’ve got journals and pens in front of them, but they’re not in your typical classroom. Instead, they’re in an open field of sagebrush that’s currently home to the Eastern Shoshone bison herd.
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Julianna Brannum is a documentary filmmaker and citizen of the Comanche Nation. She is the director of the new PBS short film “Homecoming,” which tells the story of the return of bison to Indigenous lands. The film is a companion to the recent Ken Burns documentary “The American Buffalo,” which Brannum also worked on as a consulting producer. Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann spoke with Brannum.
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A new short film on PBS is a follow-up to the recent Ken Burns documentary, “The American Buffalo.” “Homecoming” focuses on bison restoration in Indigenous communities.
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Acclaimed Indigenous activist, farmer, and speaker Winona LaDuke shared her thoughts on reimagining food systems with an emphasis on traditional ecological knowledge at the Slow Food in the Tetons’ Farm to Fork Festival in Jackson. The weekend-long event in early October featured talks, workshops, and even a guided hike to find wild edible plants – all to help people connect with local sources of food.
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Hundreds of bison, sometimes known as buffalo, are slaughtered outside of Yellowstone National Park every year. It's a population control measure. But as Wyoming Public Radio’s Savanna Maher reports, some tribal nations are intervening.
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On November 10, 2016, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe brought wild bison back to the Wind River Reservation. They set ten young wild bison loose on 300 acres. Dick Baldes spent his entire career as a biologist working to bring wildlife back to the reservation. And it was his son, Jason, who helped make the bison release a reality. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards attended the release ceremony.