Buffalo Hunt

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Over the past three winters more than twelve hundred Yellowstone bison have been killed by Montana officials when they wander outside park boundaries. A coalition of forty-nine Native American tribes has proposed another way of managing the herd – featuring a buffalo hunt. Jane Fritz report.

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