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☆ Opinion | Why We Should Bring Back the Buffalo
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Dayton Duncan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But that heartbreaking tale has another chapter, too, that shows how Americans can change direction and pull back from the brink. Today, more than 350,000 bison can be found in the United States — a notable success, but really just a start. Most of today’s bison are being raised as livestock, confined like cattle, fattened in feedlots and trucked to commercial slaughterhouses. Meanwhile, some ranchers and nonprofit environmental organizations are trying to provide buffalo with something closer to the habitats they once knew: more room to roam and native grasses to eat. Under those conditions, the bison can reclaim their former role as the “keystone” species of the prairies, improving conditions for all other species to thrive.

Persons: Lewis, Clark, Meriwether Lewis Locations: North Dakota, Montana, United States, fattened, feedlots

I hope it’s the beginning of an era,” says FastHorse, a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. “The truth was most theaters had never produced a single play by a Native playwright. It may have been about some Native people, but it was not written by Native people. They would answer that they didn't know any Native playwrights or that there weren't enough Native audiences to power ticket sales. “I think one thing I’m just hoping that people take away from this play is like, ‘Wow, Native stories are really compelling.

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☆ ‘The American Buffalo’ Review: Ken Burns’s Western Elegy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A bison in Montana in 2019 Photo: Craig Mellish/PBSAs recounted during Ken Burns ’s two-night, four-hour “The American Buffalo,” an Irish peer named Sir St. George Gore embarked on a hunting trip to the American West in the mid-1850s, bringing along 50 people, six wagons, 21 carts, 112 horses and 50 dogs. He spent about a quarter of a million dollars en route to killing 1,500 elk, 2,000 deer, more than 1,000 antelope, 500 bear and 4,000 bison. He was so “wanton,” we are told, he even offended the frontiersmen who spent their days butchering wildlife. When he attempted to breach the Black Hills of South Dakota, the tribes there told him to go, or fight.

Persons: Craig Mellish, Ken Burns ’, ”, St, George Gore Organizations: PBS Locations: Montana, American Buffalo, American, South Dakota

☆ Ken Burns Turns His Camera on America’s Beleaguered Buffalo
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ken Burns says he has been thinking about the American buffalo all of his life: “It may be the most important mammal in the history of the United States.” He explains that this “magnificent” yet beleaguered animal, which roamed the Great Plains in the tens of millions less than 200 years ago, has often stalked the background of his films—figuratively and literally—during his career as a documentarian of Americana. “The buffalo intersects with all these interesting parts of American history,” he says, which is why he’s been plotting a project about its fate for nearly 40 years. But he’s glad that he waited. Time, he says, has helped him to better understand the nuances of what he calls an “epic American calamity.”

Persons: Ken Burns, ”, he’s Locations: United States

PBS acquired the docuseries “ Becoming Frida Kahlo,” about the artist, to replace it and it premiered last week. Political Cartoons View All 1179 ImagesPBS has also bought a few more scripted series that were made outside of the U.S., she said. Most of them are aimed at PBS' streaming service, although the Danish series “Seaside Hotel” has aired on the television network. A British drama about the lives of people fighting World War II, “World on Fire,” is premiering its second season in October. Other scripted series are on the docket, including “Unforgotten,” “Van Der Valk,” and “Little Bird,” the latter about an adopted woman who tries to investigate her personal history.

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