Understanding of the heritage of the Indian tribe; Propagation of bison herds on reservations; Combination of tribal philosophies with modern practices in the raising of bison to address health and poverty issues.WexlerMarkNational Wildlife (World Edition)...
Native Americans living in the Great Plains successfully managed the bison population while utilizing bison meat, hides, and sinew, but white settlers brought the bison near extinction as they colonized the West. "They're very smart animals," Lydia Austin, the interpretative programs manager at ...
1.a member of the cattle tribe,Bison bison, formerly widely distributed over the prairies of W North America but now confined to reserves and parks, with a massive head, shaggy forequarters, and a humped back 2.a closely related and similar animal,Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe...
and other animals and plants, detailing the interdependent relationships among these inhabitants of a lost landscape. Lott also traces the long and dramatic relationship between the bison and Native Americans, and gives a surprising look at the history of the hide hunts that delivered the coup de ...
Formerly a staple of Native Americans in the Great Plains region of the United States, the bison neared extinction in the late 1800s after several initiatives reduced the number of bison to but a few hundred.
Yellowstone bison are managed as wildlife in multiple, large herds that migrate and disperse across an extensive landscape (>90,000 ha) they share with a full suite of native ungulates and predators, and are subject to natural selection factors such as competition for food and mates, predation ...
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leather in 1871, hide prices jumped to $3.00 each. One county in Montana shipped 180,000 buffalo skins east in 1881 alone. Generals Sheridan and Sherman got their wish when hordes of hide hunters decimated buffalo herds. The bison were almost gone, and most Native Americans were on ...
Bison once covered the Great Plains and much of North America, and were critically important to Plains Indian societies. During the 19th century, settlers killed some 50 million bison for food, sport, and to deprive Native Americans of their most important natural asset. The once enormous herds...
But then there are humans, and it’s no contest when it’s armed hunters vs. bison herds. Native Americans lived in balance with bison for centuries, but contact with waves of European settlers proved cataclysmic for the animals. When they were on the brink of extinction in the late 1800...