Ken Burns’ latest documentary, The American Buffalo, premieres on PBS October 16. The four-hour series is in two parts and “takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, significance to the Great Plains, near demise, and relationship to the Indigenous People of North America,” according to PBS.
The stories of Native people, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne of the Southern Plains; and the Lakota, Salish, Kootenai, Mandan-Hidatsa and Blackfeet from the Northern Plains, anchor the film.
