Return of the Buffalo to Fort Peck

Lynn Donaldson/The Story Group for the National Wildlife Federation

“It’s a special day,” Larry Wetsit said. “Our people have been waiting and praying about this for a couple hundred years. My relations, there were hundreds of them, starved on several occasions here as we were placed on the reservation. It was all about having no buffalo. That was the low part in our history, the lowest we could go. This is a start on the road to recovery.”

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