Tatanka

 

Thanks to Dances with Wolves, I learned the word tatanka. In the movie, the Sioux use the word to describe bison. I recently came across some bison in my travels and snapped a new pictures of them from a distance. They were tagged and rolling in the dirt. It's hard to believe that they use to be all over the place in North America.

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Read more on tatanka:

• http://www.tankafund.org/history-of-tatanka
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison

Photography by Carter Cochran

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