Native American stories are as varied as the trees ... the buffalo of the Plains, the beaver of the Eastern woodlands. Stories explain why and how certain local plants and animals came to be ...

“We have to be pretty quiet because the beaver family is inside this lodge ... habitat — the first time they had returned to their native range in nearly 75 years as part of a major project ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded ...