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 ...

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 ...

Buffalo jumps are a traditional Plains hunting technique that allowed communities to slaughter dozens, if not more, buffalo at once. In a traditional buffalo jump, a lead runner will dress as a ...

The sudden and systematic slaughter of the buffalo certainly helped to serve Ottawa’s plan. — Howard Adams - Prison of Grass Four Faces of the Moon follows the animated journey of an ...

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 ...