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The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, significance to the Great Plains, near demise, and relationship to the Indigenous People of North America.
a few more buffalo facts. The American bison and the American buffalo are the same animal. The name "bison" is more commonly accepted and is the name of the animals zoological genus and zoological species. There were once an estimated 65 million buffalo roaming free in North America. The buffalo is the largest land animal in the New World.
So both names, "Bison" and "Buffalo," have a meaning that is similar. The term "Buffalo" dates to 1635 and has a much longer history than the term "Bison," which was first was cataloged in 1774. The American Bison is closely related to the European Bison. The American Bison once roamed the grasslands of North America in gigantic herds.
The American Buffalo premieres on PBS stations starting Monday, Oct. 16 at 8 pm ET. Television broadcast air dates will appear below if an episode of The American Buffalo is airing on your PBS ...
The American Buffalo: Created by Ken Burns. With Peter Coyote, Tantoo Cardinal, Michael Punke, N. Scott Momaday. A journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal's evolution.
The history of the buffalo is entwined with the plight of the Native Americans in the American West. Indian tribes settled these same grasslands centuries later because of the plenteous bison.
The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic ...
