Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center to feature bison exhibit

Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center is opening a new exhibit on the history of the American bison. The exhibit will be open Feb. 11 through March 24. Visitors to the Heritage Center can see the exhibit at no additional cost, with the regular price of admission.

“The American bison was such an important mammal all across North America, both ecologically and culturally,” said Heritage Center Director Jake Krumwiede. “Their rapid decline to near extinction was catastrophic, but also symbolic of the changes happening in the ever-evolving American West in the latter half of the 19th century. The conservation efforts made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are admirable, to say the least.”

The exhibit at the Heritage Center was made possible, in part, by the James C. and Teresa K. Day Foundation.  The exhibit originally was opened at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Mont., in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities.