INDEPENDENT LENS

FACING THE STORM: STORY OF THE AMERICAN BISON

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 @ 8:00PM

Tens of millions of bison once roamed North America. For 10,000 years, Native Americans on the Great Plains had a sacred relationship with the animal, relying on it for food, clothing, and shelter. But with the arrival of European Americans and their Manifest Destiny, ready to conquer the West and all of its resources, bison became nearly extinct, and Plains culture was forever changed.

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