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Buffalo manager Robert Magnan cuts out a bison's tongue while field dressing it at the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes Buffalo Ranch near Wolf Point, Mont., Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Clark)

WOLF POINT, Mont. – On the open plains of the Fort Peck Reservation, Robert Magnan leaned out the window of his truck, set a rifle against the door frame and then “pop!" — a bison tumbled dead in its tracks.

Magnan and a co-worker shot two more bison, also known as buffalo, and quickly field dressed the animals before carting them off for processing into ground beef and cuts of meat for distribution to members of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in northern Montana.

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