BILLINGS — A deal disclosed Thursday will allow the mass slaughter of hundreds of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indian tribes want to ...

Last summer, members of the InterTribal Buffalo Council (ITBC), a Native non-profit group dedicated to restoring Tribal bison herds among its 83 member nations, embarked on a timeless practice across ...

Tribally run management and a deal with Yellowstone National Park are helping forge a future for coexisting with the iconic American bison.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Yellowstone National Park transferred 20 bison to a Montana Indian tribe for slaughter on Wednesday, marking the first such action this winter under a plan to drastically reduce ...

BILLINGS — Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday started shipping hundreds of wild bison to slaughter for disease control, as a quarantine facility on a Montana Indian reservation that could help ...

GARDINER, Mont. – This is the modern answer to the buffalo jump. On Tuesday, instead of bison being chased off a steep prairie bluff, they were herded by mounted horseman and an SUV into Yellowstone ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park administrators plan to capture and ship to slaughter potentially hundreds of wild bison if they migrate into Montana this winter in a bid to reduce ...

Moving wild bison is controversial — it also is no easy feat. Government workers, including some from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, have been busy around the northern edges of Yellowstone ...

For buffalo advocate Stephany Seay, the facility is a death camp for bison, a last stop before the large animals are shipped to slaughter, their meat distributed to American Indian tribes. Picking up ...

Under Montana law, privately owned bison are classified and regulated as livestock and are treated much like cattle. Unlike ...

Yellowstone National Park officials started trapping bison Monday as part of an annual effort to kill hundreds of the area's iconic animals through hunting or shipment to slaughterhouses. Government ...