The Largest Herd of Buffalo Ever Released to the Fort Peck Reservation

The Largest Herd of Buffalo Ever Released to the Fort Peck Reservation | Evolution Earth

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9 ай бұрын

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Jonny Bearcub Stiffarm and others from the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes on the Fort Peck Reservation come together to celebrate a momentous occasion. As all the way from Yellowstone National Park a new herd of Buffalo are returned to their land. Stream Evolution Earth on pbs.org and the PBS App: to.pbs.org/44Cuts5
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@llobe86 9 ай бұрын

This is such a wonderful thing to see happen for these long suffering people. My heart skipped a beat when Jonny talked about how the Sioux and other nations almost became extinct just like the buffalo. European and US colonialism tore the native peoples to pieces literally and figuratively. I’m overwhelmed by the beauty of this story.

@melissaverduin3693 9 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly 💯

@cindy1568 9 ай бұрын

Very nicely said!

@galemartin9155 9 ай бұрын

Welcome home to Tatanka.

@alisongildersleeve7441 9 ай бұрын

I hope I’m alive when the next report is on how this herd flourished beyond expectations and now fills the land like they did in the past.

@veramae4098 9 ай бұрын

"Like they did in the past." You mean, no more farms? Villages? Homes? Think this thru.

@brucekuehn4031 9 ай бұрын

@@veramae4098 People sometimes wish for a return to “the old days” without realizing what that would actually mean. A migrating herd of even 10,000 would be impossible today. How do we move goods reliably across this wide country? I’ve loved the American bison since trips “out West” in the mid 60s, but a group of 100 is something to be very careful around.

@Laserblade 9 ай бұрын

Home at last - where they evolved. Pound for pound the Bison is the strongest animal on Earth. With a little help they will flourish. Thank you for the story!

@joycecontreras1539 9 ай бұрын

No words can express the beauty of releasing the Buffalo back where they belong. The buffalo herd needs to grow as it did back in the day. Bless the community who put this together and made it happen. 🌈⭐️🌈⭐️

@Tantejuju65 9 ай бұрын

I am tearful watching this... gratitude to those who made it possible.

@teresalegler2777 9 ай бұрын

It’s a beautiful sight! Home at long last.

@catbb1000 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful story, they are home at last.❤

@user-qb8jz2en2s 9 ай бұрын

What a great accomplishment! I’m not Indian but I thank you.

@cindy1568 9 ай бұрын

My great-great paternal and maternal grandmas were native people. This is the coolest thing to experience!

@CaliforniaTravelVideos 9 ай бұрын

Touched my soul.

@itsjeninMass 9 ай бұрын

Yes. So much, YES! I'm so happy for the buffalo and for the tribes. So, so happy. 💗

@latyshal.2286 9 ай бұрын

I'm happy for both the animals and the people. ❤

@melissaverduin3693 9 ай бұрын

Awesome ❣ Congratulations 👏

@chat-arina 9 ай бұрын

They are so strong to keep fighting for the future and their past

@scott6550 9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks to the reservations hard work they're getting a more balanced ecosystem. Thank you for doing the hard work to make this happen. I'm sure it's only the start.

@merryfox227 9 ай бұрын

It is about time.❤

@lesliebowden5739 9 ай бұрын

Incredible!

@rslama9653 9 ай бұрын

I am so proud of these folks who are reclaiming the native wildlife indigenous to our country. As I see it the Yellowstone bison are partially a success, when the Canadian Bison ate also released there the restoration of this country can become complete. I understand That like the Alaskan and Canadian moose are much larger. Personally I believe that it is our responsability to reestablish the original state of our country.

@JustAThought155 3 ай бұрын

I had tears in my eyes as this native city gal watched those majestic creatures RETURN HOME! Notice, no prodding necessary. They simply ran free and back into nature as the majestic cloud, commonly called fog, embraced them. Oh what a lasting display of a clouds hovering as if witnesses gathered to usher and embrace them back home. ❤

@nilsanarvaez7947 9 ай бұрын

What a beautiful sight! ❤

@Sunshine-zm1fx 9 ай бұрын

America would be a better place if Native Americans were put in charge of protecting the environment.

@telesniper2 4 ай бұрын

hahaha great joke

@gregmiller9710 9 ай бұрын

great!!

@RonFox-ov4wm 9 ай бұрын

So proud of all your hard work, blessings to see. Why didn't you release them in the spring for better survival and food?

@laurajniedermann-snow5439 3 ай бұрын

A miracle for the life and health of the plains.

@driggerfireon5760 Ай бұрын

Formidable !!! One specie out of the many we need to protect and reintroduce.

@seesafar9912 8 ай бұрын

Thank you to the People for their efforts, and this Lady for speaking truth. Hold on to your dreams. I'ver never seen the animal up-close, in person. Must have been frightening to early hunters, laying low in the grass, hunting with a stick or rock- Stone Age man style....

@suziperret468 9 ай бұрын

The web of life! Thank you for bringing back the Buffalo.

@gunman-6646 6 ай бұрын

so awesome, I love Buffalo!

@killerbee3794 8 күн бұрын

Hau hankashi. Le lakota makoce kin tatanka oyate na ikche wichasa oyate tawa kin pelo. Ohinyan tawa kin pelo! Thank you sister, thank you for your magic. Hankashi, wopila tanka eciciye. What you did is sacred. Your tears are my tears and the tears of the people (Assiniboine, Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, Crow, Blackfeet, Arapaho, Shoshoni, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Atsina, Kalispel, Nes Perces, Kootenai, Yakima, Cayuse, Bannock, Cree, Arikara, Mandan, Hidatsa, Iowa, Missoura, Ponca, Otoe, Omaha, Konzas, Arkonzas, Osage, Ute, Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, Navajo, Hopi and so many others like the stars in the sky ).

@33piolin 9 ай бұрын

What do they eat in the snow-covered ground❓

@NebulaRanger 4 ай бұрын

They dig through the snow to eat the grass underneath

@telesniper2 4 ай бұрын

nothing, this is a braindead idea. They need tons of grass, that's why they migrated over large areas of turf. Stick them in a scraggly dusty lot up in North Dakota and they're bound to starve. This is just animal cruelty

@laurajniedermann-snow5439 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful we need them for healthy prarie and water 💦.

@kenlodge3399 9 ай бұрын

A story about true Spirituality. In this day and age. The power and ability to believe in something of the natural world, one hundred and forty years on. The symbolism of this is giant. Am thinking of what if anything, today, holds anything that's equivalent in the White man's world can represent our evolution as closely. What of this world that we occupy that's living do we have as strong, as durable a belief in we have a symbiotic relationship.

@nilanjanachatterjee9023 9 ай бұрын

Excellent video 😊

@latyshal.2286 9 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@oakmaiden2133 9 ай бұрын

I want to see cattle removed from public lands and bison retuned to every state they were roaming before. Antelope also. I’d rather eat bison than beef. My family raised beef in the past. Time to let them go.

@mr.mrs.d.7015 8 ай бұрын

💚

@geistnation5913 9 ай бұрын

❤❤

@dps6198 4 ай бұрын

Imagine that sound of his small herd thundering into the wild multiplied thousands of times. The sound of the some 30 million buffalo that once roamed the plains. The thundering heard of 30 million animals. In many ways our government is wonderful. In other ways the treatment of our native peoples by this government leaves me speechless, angry, sad and disgusted.

@joeherleth9274 9 ай бұрын

Why would they release a herd of animals in a new location in the middle of winter ? Wouldn't spring or summer have been a better idea ?

@boardcertifiable Ай бұрын

Bison are adapted to live in cold environments. They regularly live through blizzards just fine.

@Teskatlipoca 9 ай бұрын

🦬🦬🦬

@DarkKnight1407 9 ай бұрын

Sponsored by Jordan

@americanframeco.pyattar7190 9 ай бұрын

It's been 150 years since Native Americans hunted Buffalo as their main food source.

@sueprator9314 8 ай бұрын

She states that it isn't merely about a food source. It represents a Spirituality to their culture. Which should be our culture as we all moved on to their lands. The beauty of seeing them run free is without words.

@americanframeco.pyattar7190 8 ай бұрын

@sueprator9314 Just hard to imagine it's been that long. It will be interesting to see how this develops over time.

@robertpahlowjr4257 9 ай бұрын

They are Bison, not buffalo. Fact check.

@nlinder6075 9 ай бұрын

We had names for them before they were called bison.

@sueprator9314 8 ай бұрын

@@nlinder6075Thank you.

@tominmtnvw 8 ай бұрын

PBS, they are not buffalo, they are bison. We learned that in grade school. Duh!

@sueprator9314 8 ай бұрын

Some call it the American buffalo. We know this. And what is your point? You were in grade school decades ago taught by the whyte dominated culture. READ UP ON THE ORIGINS of how the word "buffalo" started being used. IT WAS THE POPULAR MANNER OF DESCRIBING THEM.....even if Bison might be the technical word. DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT IS THE POPULARIZED WORD BACK IN THE DAY??? There is an explanation for how the word "buff-"alo came to be.

@josephsmith1893 9 ай бұрын

oh plese... This is nothing but propaganda. Bisons and Buffallos have been roaming wild in America for decades now. Sure it's new to this reservation, but not new to America! Anyway, great for the reservation. PBS just needs to stop propaganda.