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Bison spread as Native American tribes Methodist Church Aruba
reclaim stewardship Circuit holding silent auction
and food fundraiser

Bison, also known as buffalo, walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13,
2022, near Wall, S.D.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) Page 7
By MATTHEW BROWN destined for Wisconsin.
Associated Press By nightfall, the last of the American buf-
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) — falo shipped from Badlands were being
Perched atop a fence at Badlands Na- unloaded at the Rosebud reservation, Another Treasure of Aruba’s
tional Park, Troy Heinert peered from be- where Heinert also lives. The next day, Beaches: Sea Glass!
neath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral he was on the road back to Badlands to
where 100 wild bison awaited transfer to load 200 bison for another tribe, the Chey-
the Rosebud Indian Reservation. enne River Sioux.”Buffalo, they walk in two
Descendants of bison that once roamed worlds,” said Heinert, 50. “Are they com-
North America’s Great Plains by the tens mercial or are they wildlife? From the tribal
of millions, the animals would soon thunder perspective, we’ve always deemed them
up a chute, take a truck ride across South as wildlife, or to take it a step further, as a
Dakota and join one of many burgeoning relative.”
herds Heinert has helped reestablish on Now 82 tribes across the U.S. have more
Native American lands. than 20,000 bison in 65 herds — and
Heinert nodded in satisfaction to a park that’s been growing along with the de-
service employee as the animals stomped sire among Native Americans to reclaim
their hooves and kicked up dust in the cold stewardship of an animal their ancestors
wind. He took a brief call from Iowa about depended upon for millennia.
another herd being transferred to tribes
in Minnesota and Oklahoma, then spoke Continued on Page 2
with a fellow trucker about yet more bison Page 9