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2024-12-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The 'bison skull mountain' photo that reveals the US's dark history

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Early Jets fans.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-12-05 06:04|| 2024-12-05 06:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The colonial mass slaughter of bison dealt a lasting blow to tribes that relied on the animal for sustenance.

Destroying their traditional* way of life.

*Traditional since whites brought horses to Americas.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-12-05 06:07|| 2024-12-05 06:07|| Front Page Top

#3
Side note: Based on a quick peek there about
There are 92 Million heads of beef cattle/ milk cows in the US.

There is about 1 beef animal for every 3.5 person in the US.

So we produce several of those skull mountains each year.

I am not ashamed to admit it.
I love a good med-Well cooked steak.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-12-05 06:32|| 2024-12-05 06:32|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and drive the few communities that survived onto small reservations

At roughly 17,544,500 acres, the Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, exceeding that of ten U.S. states. - wiki

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-05 08:09|| 2024-12-05 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 The only difference between the Indians and Settlers of that age were the weapons!

Posted by Glealing and Tenille2472 2024-12-05 10:32|| 2024-12-05 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Unlike the wasteful white man, indigenous people lived in harmony with nature.

Buffalo jump
A buffalo jump, or sometimes bison jump, is a cliff formation which Indigenous peoples of North America historically used to hunt and kill plains bison in mass quantities.
Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff...
Many of the animals did not end up getting harvested. Most would rot or go to waste simply because of the effort involved in harvesting so many dead or dying animals quickly enough to beat the onset of rotting would not have been possible with the tools available to tribal peoples.

Posted by SteveS 2024-12-05 10:44|| 2024-12-05 10:44|| Front Page Top

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