?It?s a special day,? Larry Wetsit said. ?Our people have been waiting and praying about this for a couple hundred years. My relations, there were hundreds of them, starved on several occasions here as we were placed on the reservation. It was all about having no buffalo. That was the low part in our history, the lowest we could go. This is a start on the road to recovery.?
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?Now they?re bringing back the buffalo,? she continued. ?This is a historical moment for us. We?re rebuilding our lives. We?re healing from historical trauma.?
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) was instrumental in making this day happen, giving both financial help and technical assistance to seek additional funding. Larry Schweiger, President and CEO of NWF, discussed his organization?s involvement. ?This has been a pretty much full time job for several of our staffers,? he said. ?It?s been an important work project for us because we believe
it?s the right thing to do for wildlife, it?s the right the thing to do for the tribes and ultimately the right thing to do for the landscape.?
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