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Examining the center of one of the country’s most mythic and heartbreaking tales.
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Examining the center of one of the country’s most mythic and heartbreaking tales.
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.
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Corporate funding for The American Buffalo was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by The Better Angels Society and its...
Official Trailer
Preview: Season 1 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
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.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Speaker] My people and the Buffalo have a shared history together.
- The buffalo was sacred, and they could not imagine existence without the buffalo.
- They were put on this earth to help us survive.
- To think that our greed and our industrialization would blink this thing out.
- [Speaker 2] This is the Buffalo's last chance.
- [Speaker 3] They've survived, we've survived.
We both persisted.
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