The largest National Park in Canada is Wood Buffalo, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the people who inhabited it for thousands of years before that want it back. Brandi Morin travels to Wood Buffalo (and to Fort MacMurray and to Fort Chipewyan) to tell the real story of the Dene, the Cree, and the land they were expelled from to make way for Wood Buffalo National Park.

Further reading:

Wood Buffalo National Park: an Untold Story. An account from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

http://acfn.woodbuffaloexpulsion.ca/

Wood Buffalo and the American Bison: Get to Know This Place and an Amazing Animal. (Doc Planet documentary referenced in this episode.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxQKVfIxzE

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The Taking of Wood Buffalo

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The Taking of Wood Buffalo