Nate Schweber

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)

20 Pounds? Not Too Bad, for an Extinct Fish

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For most fishermen, a 20-pound trout is a trophy, but for Paiute tribe members and fish biologists here the one Matt Ceccarelli caught was a victory. That Lahontan cutthroat trout he caught last year, a remnant of a strain that is possibly the largest native trout in North America, is the first confirmed catch of a fish that was once believed to have gone extinct. The fish has been the focus of an intense and improbable federal and tribal effort to restore it to its home waters...

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Schweber, Nate. "20 Pounds? Not Too Bad, for an Extinct Fish." The New York Times. April 23, 2013. Article. (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/us/lahontan-cutthroat-trout-make-a-com..., accessed February 22, 2023)