Ken Burns' new PBS documentary 'The American Buffalo,' premiering Monday, tells the story of how our national mammal was on the brink of extinction until humans evolved and saved them.
Documentarian Ken Burns has long chronicled chapters of American history, both writ large and in tiny, telling detail, connecting the dots from one scale to the other. This month, he turns his eye to the epic saga of our national mammal, 'The American Buffalo,' in a two-part, four-hour documentary for PBS premiering Monday. The story is, as he says, mostly a tragedy, but one with a surprising twist.
The Native American participants — some of them are scholars and historians and biologists, some are superintendents or retired Park Service people and some are just Native Americans from various tribes — they're asking you to see things a little bit differently. When George Horse Capture Jr. 'My cattle, my property' — that's like the rock in the middle of the stream around which everything flows.
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