Tatanka: Story of the Bison

The sculptures stop you cold before you've read a single placard. Life-size bronze bison in full flight, Lakota riders pursuing them — Peggy Detmers made something that earns its place in the Black Hills, land the Lakota held as sacred until the U.S. government took it following the discovery of gold in 1874. An interpretive center fills in the rest: the tens of millions of bison that once moved across the plains, the hunting that collapsed them to near-nothing, and what that collapse meant for the people whose lives the herds sustained.