Journey through History with The American Buffalo
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Aimee Bealer
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.
Watch The American Buffalo on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17 on WITF TV and the PBS or WITF app!
The American Buffalo, America’s national mammal, sustained the lives of Native people, whose cultures were intertwined with the animal. Newcomers to the continent bring a different view of the natural world, and the buffalo are driven to the brink of extinction.
Watch The American Buffalo on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17 on WITF TV and the PBS or WITF app!
By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever.
Watch The American Buffalo on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17 on WITF TV and the PBS or WITF app!
The American Buffalo on WITF TV is supported by Willow Valley Communities and Capital Blue Cross
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