The captivating reintroduction of six bison in a forest preserve has deeper meaning to Indigenous people and advocates of tallgrass prairie restoration.

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land, ...

Prior to the arrival of the first European settlers early in the 17th Century, an estimated 50 million Native Americans tilled the land in the area that became the United States, gathered food in the ...