Bison Gallery

Sioux grave on the northern plains

Sioux grave with bison skulls, on the banks of the Yellowstone River, eastern Montana, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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NATI2D-00419

Buffalo Dance performed by a Zuni Pueblo Red-tailed Hawk Dancer at the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonials, New Mexico.
Digital photograph

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