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Photo: Bison graze on open prairie under blue sky and clouds
Bison graze lazily under a powder-blue North Dakota sky. Bison were critical to the lives of the Great Plains Indian tribes, who made use of every part of these animals.
Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie

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