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Moving Back Home Together: Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands

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In the employee directory of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Bronc Speak Thunder’s title is buffalo wrangler.

In 2012, Mr. Speak Thunder drove a livestock trailer in a convoy from Yellowstone National Park that returned genetically pure bison to tribal land in northeastern Montana for the first time in 140 years. Mr. Speak Thunder, 32, is one of a growing number of younger Native Americans who are helping to restore native animals to tribal lands across the Northern Great Plains, in the Dakotas, Montana and parts of Nebraska...

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Schweber, Nate. "Moving Back Home Together: Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands." The New York Times. August 25, 2014. Article. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/science/rarest-native-animals-find-haven..., accessed August 26, 2014)