WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, Wyo. — The men stood by the edge of the corral to mark the release of the first buffalo to run on the Wind River Indian Reservation in decades.
The sound of their drums mixed with their voices lifted in song and the 10 buffalo shifted nervously before finally they bolted and ran out onto the grassy plain.
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