With approximately 6,000 remaining non-domesticated buffalo relations, a severe tragedy occurred on December 29th, 2022, when a semi-truck, on HWY 191 in West Yellowstone, Montana, took the lives of 13 bison and yearlings. Despite the legal speed limit on HWY 191, the semi-truck was traveling too fast to stop in time before colliding into the buffalo family. For years, Montana has refused to lower the speed limit in accordance with scientific recommendations and the Buffalo Field Campaign, Native American nations and allies are calling for the construction of ecological corridors over the highway as a remedy to prevent future accidents and the taking of animal relations lives. Had there been an ecological corridor over the highway near the Madison River crossing to Horse Butte, Montana, - a popular migratory pattern of the buffalo – the accident could have been prevented. In addition to this recent tragedy, hunters throughout the state of Montana in the past have escalated the taking of non-domesticated buffalo relations lives. In other words, more buffalo relations lives were taken in 2022 than in 2021.    

Guest:
Our guest, Tom Woodbury, Communications Director of the Buffalo Field Campaign joins us for the hour in this two-part interview and provides listeners with update on the work of the Buffalo Field Campaign, the recent tragedy, the call to action of for creating an ecological corridor over HWY 191, the Buffalo Treaty between Native American nations, and more. 

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Protecting the Buffalo Relations, Critical Updates, and Native American Solutions

American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org).  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacr


American Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein.

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