Already confronted with disease and alcoholism, prairie natives faced a final assault on their way of life: the slaughter of the buffalo in the late 1800s. Fearing starvation, prairie natives ...

Gardiner, Montana.  Shortly after capturing over 300 wild bison at the Stephen’s Creek Capture facility, Yellowstone has sent ...

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The government encouraged buffalo slaughter to confine natives to smaller areas and compel them to abandon their nomadic customs. Railroad companies hired buffalo hunters to kill the animals and ...

We see how the buffalo, which once numbered in the tens of millions, were whittled down to only a few hundred wild specimens in what Burns calls “the greatest slaughter of wildlife” in the ...

Indian federal and state laws prohibit the slaughter of cattle for religious concerns. Buffalo slaughter is allowed, although it is restricted to bulls and unproductive heifers. Due to the ...