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In much better and happier news Bison after decades of hard work and conservation efforts from indigenous organizations have finally been released back on our lands after 150 years.
I saw this video live and cried my eyes out. This is so important. Despite it all we survived. We're still here and the possibility to heal the land and ourselves is always there even if it will take time.
Edit: I'm very happy that people love this post but my other less happy educational posts are also just as important
Cleaning out my drafts and found this post I saved over a year ago. So to make up for the lateness here are some more articles about the increasing number of First Nations who have been able to reintroduce bison to theeir lands. All of these articles are about different reintroductions.
^via Mongabay, December 10, 2020. Sicangu Lakota Oyate.
^via The Nature Conservancy, October 3, 2023. InterTribal Buffalo Council, which consists of 83 tribes [at time of publication] and continues to add more.
"Across the U.S., from New York to Oklahoma to Alaska, 82 tribes now have more than 20,000 bison in 65 herds. Numbers have been growing in recent years along with the desire among Native Americans to reclaim stewardship of the animals."
^via PBS Newshour, March 3, 2023. Department of the Interior under Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo).
^via The Texas Tribune, November 13, 2023. Theda Pogue, Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
^via San Antonio Express-News, December 10, 2021. Lipan Apache.
^via CBS2 WGRZ, November 11, 2021. Seneca Nation.
^via Huffington Post, July 6, 2023. Blackfeet Nation.
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WHY THE FUCK DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT THIS
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The holy animal of Mongolia is big-headed and stocky, like a pudgy foal that overgrew in odd places. Its body is the color of a stirred cappuccino, but the legs are dark, as if dressed in stockings. Its muzzle is white, its mane black and bristly, erect as a fresh-cut mohawk. A matching line runs like a racing stripe all the way down the horse’s back. The babies are often pale gray, and woolly like lambs, and while any sensible human would immediately want to pet one, if not outright hug it, wolves see lunch.
If you were able to observe this creature in person, which is hard to do, given that they live in only a few places on earth, you would find it in a family network—a harem—with a dominant stallion watching over mares and their offspring, in groups of 5 to 15. For this to happen, you would have to be in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, China or Russia, the only places the horse lives anymore in the wild. Not so long ago, the species, once prolific on the Central Asia steppe, was one cruel winter, one hungry wolf pack, one outbreak of disease away from extinction.
This animal is generally known as “Przewalski’s horse” (pronounced shuh-VAL-skee), or “P-horse,” for short, but Mongolians call it takhi, which means spirit, or worthy of worship. You don’t ride the takhi, or stable it, or—pony-like as the horse appears—saddle it up and perch children on it at birthday parties. The horse is too wild for that. While it has been captured and occasionally confined to zoos, it has never been tamed—it is the only truly wild horse in existence. Other horses that are thought of as wild are in fact feral…