Yep. Those Comanches (where Comanches = the US army) virtually wiped out the buffalo.https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349/ …
-
-
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
Almost every thing that you ascribe to whites technologically was invented by germans: internal combustion engine, diesel, mold board plough, jet engine, rocket engine. There are of course exceptions. These however are foundational. But everyone hates the germans. Funny that.
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
fall from the weight of the herd pressing behind them, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. Many other tribes practiced similar "harmonious" hunting techniques, sacrificed humans, rape and pillaged other smaller tribes. Wonderful, peaceful lifestyles all of them...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Lot of people seem to be confusing a Thank You note with an Invoice.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Yeah, the buffalo had to go or else those massive herds would've torn up the railroads. As such they are not extinct, I can go to the grocery store and buy buffalo meat. As to "living in harmony"? That's a laugh...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I can’t believe the ignorance. It’s like People forget how we got to be so privileged and why so many of us survive and live to our 80s
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
What, you mean my public school teachers were lying all those years when they taught my classmates and me that white settlers killed the buffalo by shooting all of them whilst on a moving train heading west?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Harmony? Yea right, starvation/childhood mortality thru the roof, illnesses curable today. Shall I go on?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable
- 1 more reply
-
-
-
Umm... Mastadons were apparently hunted to extinction in North America. So... I'd call that cyclical resource depletion.
-
This Tweet is unavailable
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable
-
21 years at a time.
End of conversation
-
-
-
Not to mention firearms, another potent European addition to Native American hunting lethality.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Also, horses aren't native to the Americas. The Spanish brought them.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Jill, this is for you : The buffalo jump was used for 5,500 years by the indigenous peoples of the plains to kill buffalo by driving them off the 36 foot high cliff. Before the late introduction of horses, the Blackfoot drove the buffalo from a grazing area in the Porcupine Hills
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
about 1.9 mi west of the site to the “drive lanes”, lined by hundreds of cairns, by dressing up as coyotes and wolves. These specialized “buffalo runners” were young men trained in animal behavior to guide the buffalo into the drive lanes. Then, at full gallop, the buffalo would
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.