<\/p>\r\nThe bill creates a permanent program at the Department of the Interior<\/a> to help promote and develop tribal capacity to manage buffalo, or bison. The herds, which tribes relied upon for food and other purposes, were decimated during the colonization of the United States.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\u201cThe Indian Buffalo Management Act will allow tribal nations to develop and\r\nmaintain buffalo herds on tribal lands to restore treaty obligations and the\r\nbuffalo population itself,\u201d said Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez<\/a> (D-New Mexico), the House Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States<\/a>. \r\n <\/P>\r\n\u201cAdditionally this bill will enable the transportation of surplus buffalo from\r\nfederal lands into tribal lands,\u201d Fernandez added.\r\n <\/p>\r\nThe measure authorizes $14 million to be spent on the buffalo management program. If the bill becomes law, the money would have to be appropriated by Congress.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\u201cThe demise of the buffalo was the demise of the American Indian,\u201d said Rep. Don Young<\/a> (R-Alaska), the sponsor of H.R.2074 and the longest-serving member of the House.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\u201cIt was done deliberately and now we’re trying to restore it on Indian land,\u201d Young noted.\r\n <\/P>\r\n
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