Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo
For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal. For millennia, this totemic animal lived in symbiotic relationship with grasslands throughout North America, then \u2013 in less than 100 years \u2013 new settlers and hunters brought their numbers from 30 million to the mere hundreds, while in the same era glorifying them as our iconic national animal. It\u2019s a classic and cautionary tale of our ability to destroy the natural world \u2013 and potentially, to bring it back.\xa0\n\nGuests:\nKen Burns, Director, The American Buffalo\nRosalyn LaPier, Indigenous environmental historian and ethnobotanist\n\nFor show notes and related links, visit our website.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices