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To: FrozenZ who wrote (142211)	8/1/2004 1:43:27 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Let me remind you that the North American bison were systematically exterminated and left to rot in huge piles because the American Indian depended on them and the settlers wanted the land. Not true, there were two main causes of the near extinction of the buffalo. They were systematically hunted until the herds were extremely depleted by the Indians, who traded the hides for modern goods like pots and pans, metal knives, guns and ammo. They also lost their ecological niche due to invasion of their habitat by non-native vegetation spread by the Europeans. Who were not smart enough to realize that the buffalo needed tall grass to live on. Most people don't realize that the Plains Indians were unable to exploit the buffalo until Europeans brought horses to North America. They lived on the edges of the Great Plains but couldn't chase buffalo. Actually a lot of them lived further east but that's another story.