The American black bear is a medium-sized bear native to North America. It is the continent’s smallest and most widely distributed bear species. Black bears are omnivores with their diets ...

Oglala Lakota actor, author and activist worked to ensure Natives be allowed to embrace their Indigenous identities and that ...

Black bear mating season takes place during the summer, but embryos do not begin to develop until the mother bear enters her den. Cubs are born in the middle of the winter denning period, usually ...

The Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus), is one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear, typically found along the Mississippi and the Atchafalaya River Basin. Winter having ...

The pipe-tomahawk once owned by Standing Bear, who became the first Native American to be recognized as a person by the United States government, was returned to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska in 2022.

Later on in summer, red raspberries ( a key fruit species for bears), choke cherries, scarlet elder berries, dogwood fruits and blackberries ripen. In September, American mountain-ash berries, black ...