ENID, OK - The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center is opening a new exhibit on the history of the American Bison. The exhibit will be open to the public on February 11 through March 24. Visitors to the Heritage Center can see the exhibit at no additional cost, with the regular price of admission.
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“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 nineteenth century. The conservation efforts made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are admirable, to say the least.”
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The exhibit at the Heritage Center was made possible, in part, by the James C. and Teresa K. Day Foundation. The exhibit was originally opened at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities. The National Buffalo Foundation has made the exhibit available for tour across North America.
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The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center is located a 507 S. Fourth St. in Enid. For more information about Date Night at the Museum, please call 580-237-1907 or visit www.csrhc.org.
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The Heritage Center and Humphrey Heritage Village are open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center is a division of the Oklahoma Historical Society. The mission of the Oklahoma Historical Society is to collect, preserve and share the history and culture of the state of Oklahoma. Founded in 1893 by members of the Territorial Press Association, the OHS maintains museums, historic sites and affiliates across the state. Through its research archives, exhibits, educational programs and publications the OHS chronicles the rich history of Oklahoma. For more information about the OHS, please visit www.okhistory.org.
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Bison Exhibit Opening at the Heritage Center
