Karen Latchana Kenney - Saving the American Bison

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Invite him or her to list questions
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find answers to those questions. Prompt the child to think more.
Ask: Have you ever seen an
American bison? Where was it?
Were you surprised by its size? Pogo Books are published by Jump! 5357 Penn Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55419 www.jumplibrary.com Copyright 2019 Jump! International copyright reserved in all countries. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kenney, Karen Latchana, author. Title: Saving the American bison / by Karen Latchana Kenney.

Description: Pogo books edition. | Minneapolis, MN: Jump!, Inc., [2019] Series: Great animal comebacks | Audience: Age 710. Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018024905 (print) LCCN 2018027527 (ebook) ISBN 9781641282796 (ebook) ISBN 9781641282789 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: American bisonConservation Juvenile literature. Classification: LCC QL737.U53 (ebook) | LCC QL737.U53 K46 2019 (print) | DDC 599.64/3dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024905 Editor: Jenna Trnka Designer: Anna Peterson Photo Credits: CarbonBrain/iStock, cover; Eric Isselee/ Shutterstock, 1, 23; karenfoleyphotography/iStock, 3; Images by Dr.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER AN ANIMAL
IN DANGER A large grazes.
It chews on grass. This is
the American bison. It is not alone. This is Yellowstone
.

Close to 5,000
live here! But wild bison were once
hard to find. Why? They almost
went .

Native Americans relied on bison.
For what? Clothing. . Tools. Food.
They ate the meat.

Even the muscles
and tongues. They used bows and
arrows to hunt only the bison they
needed to survive. tipi

TAKE A LOOK! Native Americans used every part of the bison. For what?
Take a look at some of the uses. SKULL
religious
ceremonies HORNS
headdresses
cups
spoons
ladles HAIR
headdresses
paintbrushes
ropes HIDE
(WITHOUT HAIR)
tipi covers
clothing
moccasins
bedding
drum TAIL
decoration
flyswatters BONES
knives
arrowheads
war clubs STOMACH
pouches
buckets
cooking pots HOOVES
glue
rattles bison skins White settlers killed many bison
in the early 1800s. Sometimes just
for sport.

Other times they sold
the and bones. The railroad brought more
people to the West. They shot
bison from trains. Bison
began disappearing. DID YOU KNOW? Bison once ruled
the
There were believed
to be between
and million!

CHAPTER SAVING THE
BISON William T. Hornaday was
a .

He wanted
to find out how many
bison were left. He wrote
to people around the
country. They wrote
back with their counts. William T. Hornaday

Together, they estimated the number
of bison left in North America. Where were they? One place
was Yellowstone National Park.
In 1894, a law passed.
It protected animals here.
No one could hunt them. Hornaday helped form the
American Bison Society.
When? In 1905. Hornaday helped form the
American Bison Society.
When? In 1905.

It asked the
government to protect more
bison. Where? On . The first herd was only bison.
It was sent to Oklahoma. How?
By train. They went to Wichita
National Forest. The society
placed herds in more national
parks.

The government
started more herds.

bison reserve CHAPTER BISON TODAY Today, bison roam and mountains.
They are safe in national parks. In state
parks. And on reserves. People can only
hunt them with . Parks issue very
few permits each year.

This keeps herds
at a good size.