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Thanks to the Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Project, bison are making their resurgence on the Spirit Lake Nation Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
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Kellogg Grant Supports Bison Network
Oglala Lakota College offers a unique course that is best taught in the prairie, Tatanka Management—Bison Management. Instructor Trudy Ecoffey said some of its textbooks are not written but oral-traditional stories told by tribal elders.
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Cheyenne River Developing Bison Courses
Fifty people attended last summer’s Tatanka Institute, which is part of Cheyenne River Community College’s animal and range science programs. The participants—double the number who attended last year’s institute—were able to view their subject matter,
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Return of the Buffalo: The effort to restore bison to Native Americans
The market for buffalo is thriving and with large amounts of grassy reservation land and ideal buffalo habitat, InterTribal Bison Cooperative members enjoy a potentially strong business position but by and large, Indians haven’t played much of a part.
