Bison at Midwein National Tallgrass Prairie, Will County, Illinois. (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Bison at Midwein National Tallgrass Prairie, Will County, Illinois.

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History professor Robert Morrissey wrote in his new book, “People of the Ecotone,” about how the ecology of the tallgrass prairie shaped the culture and created unique opportunities for the Indigenous people who lived there.

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Photo by Richard Short, USDA Forest Service

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