| The grizzly bear is an important species to many tribes, and is a symbol commonly associated with tribal medicine, spirituality, history, and knowledge. Using the 2017 removal of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act as a case study,and drawing from emotional political ecology and emotional geography, this paperinvestigates howconservation decisions concerning transboundary cultural resources affect the emotions of indigenous populations inside and outside of policy-targeted areas.Indigenous underrepresentation in conservation decision-making is well documented, though not much research has focused on the emotional outcomes of these decisions. While many studies have exploredthe emotional tolls of ecological change, they have largely concentrated on place-based subsistence-livelihood-environment dynamics. However, the emotional responses of spatially disconnected tribal communities concerning the perceived harm to culturally significant, non-subsistencewildlife remains largely unexamined. This paper also explores the emotional consequences of underrepresentation in conservation for tribal people.Key Words:Conservation, Indigenous, Transboundary Cultural Resources, Emotions, Wildlife |