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To: jttmab who wrote (129956)	4/24/2004 10:35:04 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<How about the Buffalo hunters, that killed off the Buffalo heards for the skins; leaving the carcasses on the plains and devastating the Native American food supply?>> Even worse, there were train expeditions that took people out on the plains to shoot the Bison for sport and left everything to rot.

To: jttmab who wrote (129956)	4/24/2004 1:45:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

How about the Buffalo hunters, that killed off the Buffalo heards for the skins; leaving the carcasses on the plains and devastating the Native American food supply? Talk about "the Disney version" -- this is just as ill informed. Really, please read that book I linked to you yesterday. You'll get a lot out of it. If your local library doesn't have it, you can find it used for $8 plus shipping. amazon.com For example -- the so-called "Plains Indians" were actually native to areas further east, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan. The horse - brought here by the Europeans - and the long rifle - ditto - allowed them to exploit a new niche they'd never been able to access before - the bison. For thousands of years, the bison had little to fear from man, who could not hunt them efficiently on foot. Instead, they hunted small animals and gathered grains and roots. Which, by the way, never went away. But gathering grains is women's work, and you know how men are -- they love to hunt and bring home big slabs of meat, it's great for the love life. As for who killed off the buffalo? Mostly, Native Americans killed them for their hides, which were an excellent source of cash money to buy Western goods. And their native habitat was inexorably changed by Western agriculture, including honeybees, which pollinated vegetation that the bison did not feed on, causing it to crown out the grasses that the bison ate. Honeybees are not native to the Americas.