Week 12: Reintroduction of the American Bison

To the Native American people of the prairie, the Buffalo has always represented their very spirit and cultural heritage -while- embodying their freedom, and their lifestyle of living in harmony with nature as Great Spirit taught them. Because of this, the systematic annihilation of the Buffalo by the American government, was a deliberate, purposeful and unfortunately successful attempt to conquer and suppress the Indian people, their beliefs and cultures. This was done as a means to the end of stealing their land and resources for our own selfish purposes.

For all of these reasons, and especially because the reintroduction of the Buffalo population will “heal the spirit of both the Indian people, and the Buffalo” it is of vital importance that this effort is successful. The renewed hope that the resurrection of the sacred relationship between the Indian people and the Buffalo will provide to both, is a much needed healing balm to the national wound we all share. When the Indian people become whole again, so too, will we as a
nation.