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Author Zontek, Ken, author.

Title Buffalo nation : American Indian efforts to restore the bison / Ken Zontek
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents A relationship from time immemorial -- Saving the buffalo nation -- Indians and buffalo, 1890-1990s -- The intertribal bison cooperative -- The Yellowstone crisis -- A comparative perspective on Canada's native restoration of the bison -- Conclusion -- Cheyenne River Lakota : photo essay
Summary The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a hopeful one for the future, is Ken Zonteks account of Native peoples efforts to repopulate the Plains with a healthy, viable bison population
Notes "A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Indians of North America -- Domestic animals -- Great Plains
American bison -- Great Plains
Cultural property -- Protection -- Great Plains
Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
American bison
Cultural property -- Protection
Human-animal relationships
Indians of North America -- Domestic animals
Tierschutz
Bison
Great Plains
Nordamerika
Indianer.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803215801
0803215800
0803207409
9786610735242
6610735247
9780803207400