Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes take Yellowstone bison

Thursday, February 20, 2014  

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana have taken 37 bison from Yellowstone National Park.

The animals are being taken to a slaughter facility on the reservation. They will be used for meat, hides and other parts.

“It’s almost a healing kind of thing,” Tom McDonald of the tribal natural resources office told The Billings Gazette.

The tribe retains a treaty right to hunt on ceded lands that are now a part of Yellowstone.

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