Big Medicine, a sacred white bison, who lived his entire life from 1933 to 1959 on the National Bison Range. Today, he’s on display at the Montana History Center in Helena. (Darrell Ehrlick/Daily Montanan)
October 24, 2022
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Going home: Big Medicine will be returned to CSKT
Big Medicine spent all of his life on the tribal homelands of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes. Now after his death, he’ll spend most of his time back there too, after a six-decade hiatus as one of the main attractions of the Montana Historical Society.