Bison grazing on grassland in Western Canada. (Photo: Natulive Canada via Wikimedia Commons.)

Bison are returning to First Nation and Métis communities. That’s good for the bison, the people, and the land itself.

Fifty million bison once lived on the Great Plains. Huge herds roamed from the Canadian Prairies to Mexico.

The Indigenous Peoples of the Great Plains depended on the bison. It was a central part of their culture…