Bison slaughter
At a glance:
- Series: Racial and Ethnic Relations in America
- Categories: Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Animals, Endangered Species, Zoology, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: American Indian History, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
- Geographical Location: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska
- Date: Peaked 1872-1874
Article abstract: Mass killings of buffalo lead to the near-extinction of the species and destroy the lifeblood of the Plains Indians.
In 1853, the American bison population was estimated at between sixty and seventy million animals. It was reduced to a few thousand in thirty years. The bison's decline was the result of human greed, uncontrolled exploitation, and United States government policy. Also called the American buffalo, the bison ranged throughout North America from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic shoreline and from northern Mexico to southern...
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