Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In the chill of early November at Tall Bull Memorial Park, dozens of Indigenous children and their elders worked side by side, carefully butchering a bison to prepare a stew for a community feast, and to distribute the remaining meat to families.
“If you look around, there’s a lot of people here. Everyone’s helping. Everyone's kind of doing their part to help distribute this meat,” said Esther Perez, who co-founded Sacred Return with her husband, Lewis Tallbull, to reconnect Native people with their traditions and ancestral foodways.
“And I think that's also a huge part that got lost when the bison got taken away and when they were hunted to near-extinction… we lost a lot of community in that. We lost our ways to work with each other, to help each other.”
The day before, more than 150 attendees gathered to witness a young man, Tayton Kills Small, take his first-ever bison, a 600-pound animal.
Read the complete story here: rmpbs.org/blogs/arts-culture/bison-harvest-tall-bull-memorial-park
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In the chill of early November at Tall Bull Memorial Park, dozens of Indigenous children and their elders worked side by side, carefully butchering a bison to prepare a stew for a community feast, and to distribute the remaining meat to families.
“If you look around, there’s a lot of people here. Everyone’s helping. Everyone's kind of doing their part to help distribute this meat,” said Esther Perez, who co-founded Sacred Return with her husband, Lewis Tallbull, to reconnect Native people with their traditions and ancestral foodways.
“And I think that's also a huge part that got lost when the bison got taken away and when they were hunted to near-extinction… we lost a lot of community in that. We lost our ways to work with each other, to help each other.”
The day before, more than 150 attendees gathered to witness a young man, Tayton Kills Small, take his first-ever bison, a 600-pound animal.
Read the complete story here: rmpbs.org/blogs/arts-culture/bison-harvest-tall-bull-memorial-park
Produced by Priya Shahi
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: bit.ly/3zeF6Ch
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