FILE- In this June 25, 2003, file photo, bison wander along a hillside at the National Bison Range near Moiese, Mont. Federal officials have transferred the range to the Confederated Salish and ...

Calling it a "historic opportunity," James Steele Jr. pledged Thursday that the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes will make the most of a new funding agreement that will return some ...

Montana cowboy artist Charlie Russell showed up in central Montana in 1880. He was a 16-year-old boy from Missouri and arrived in Montana in time to witness the final slaughter ...

Moiese, Mont. • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service diverted roughly a third of the National Bison Range Complex’s budget in 2015 and never gave it back. The shrunken budget hobbled staff ...

Buffalo once thundered across this vast river valley in southwest Montana but now the only evidence of the animal that symbolizes the untamed American West is its image on a national park sign. An ...

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have relaunched an effort to acquire a federal trust ownership agreement to manage National Bison Range in Montana. The Flathead Beacon reports tribal ...

Montana Senators Sponsor Bill to Return National Bison Range to Local Tribes John S. Adams January 7, 2020 Bison graze on the National Bison Range, located in the middle of the Flathead Indian ...

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One after another, the bison came storming out of the back of an 18-wheeler, down a metal ramp and onto the snow-covered prairie at Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana.

So Pablo sold the buffalo to the Canadian government, which shipped the animals to Elk Island National Park, outside Edmonton, Alberta, where the herd has stayed for over 100 years.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Red Sleep Mountain began its official return to the Flathead Indian Reservation on Friday as Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed papers transferring the National ...

Red Sleep Mountain has begun its official return to the Flathead Indian Reservation after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Friday signed papers transferring the National Bison Range to the ...