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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351077)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison#Hunting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351082)

Read this book

While Indians had uses for every part of the buffalo, their practice of slaughtering whole herds, at a buffalo jump or in an enclosure, sometimes produced more carcasses than a group could possibly use. As a result, waste occurred. He documents instances of Indians leaving animals to rot, utilising only the cows, or taking only the tongues and the humps. However, the overkilling did not cause the extermination of the species, which only came after non-Indians and Metis hunted them commercially for fresh meat, pemmican and hides.

Krech proposes two 'religious' reasons for the earlier over-killing. It was believed (by the Piegan and Cree) that any buffalo that escaped while being rounded up in the hunt would warn other buffalo, who would then avoid hunters, so that it was necessary to chase and kill these escapees, whether they were needed or not. Other Indians (specifically the Cheyenne and Arapaho) believed that when hunters were unable to find buffalo it was because the animals had retreated to a land underneath a large lake, from which they would eventually reappear in endless numbers. Krech concludes that, given these beliefs, the Indians did not see overhunting as a cause of any shortage of animals or the need to conserve.

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The idea that Indians lived in some pristine environment is flame anyway, rhe great plains only exists because they constantly burned it, the Amazon rainforest only exists because disease killed them off, millions of sedentary people used to live there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351224)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison#Hunting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351949)

like even when i was still a kid and believed in most of the lib bullshit, i could tell this was a bizarre lie. why would these primitive savage low IQ people have a value system based on multiple layers of abstraction that are able to infer that it's in their best long-term interest to artificially limit their hunting and gathering of resources, based on abstract extrapolations of hypothetical states far in the future? like these people had that, but they didn't have written language? yeah okay lmao

the whole thing is just goddamn absurd and a testament to white people being desperate and willing to believe any positive thing about brown people whatsoever in order to feel less psychologically uncomfortable about their inferiority

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351206)

the real redpill on indians is that european settlers were based and correct in exterminating them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351275)

so sherman's "logic" was 60 million buffalo had to be killed because there were a few thousand comanche

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351173)

“Outbreaks of smallpox (1817, 1848) and cholera (1849) took a major toll on the Comanche, whose population dropped from an estimated 20,000 in the late 18th century to just a few thousand by the 1870s.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351400)

consider the hypo of if we could get rid of all the spics currently in this country by hunting deer to extinction. i wouldn't hesitate to kill every last deer in north america, no question. talk about a small price to pay for getting rid of an existential menace

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351431)

what a weird thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351484)

"Displacement of the Plains Indians was facilitated by the growth of the railroads and the eradication of the bison. Sherman believed that bison eradication should be encouraged as a means of weakening Indian resistance to assimilation. He voiced this view in remarks to a joint session of the Texas legislature in 1875, although the U.S. Army under Sherman's command never conducted its own program of bison extermination."

the bison were ridiculously easy to hunt and kill so everybody indiscriminately killed them, including the indians, even moreso once they got guns from white people. the buffalo were pretty much fucked from the start. humans in a malthusian environment are either gonna find a way to domesticate megafauna or they will get hunted to extinction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351561)

Government involvement

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The US Army sanctioned and actively endorsed the wholesale slaughter of bison herds.[76] The federal government promoted bison hunting for various reasons, primarily to pressure the native people onto the Indian reservations during times of conflict by removing their main food source.[77][78] Without the bison, native people of the plains were often forced to leave the land or starve to death. One of the biggest advocates of this strategy was General William Tecumseh Sherman. On June 26, 1869, the Army Navy Journal reported: "General Sherman remarked, in conversation the other day, that the quickest way to compel the Indians to settle down to civilized life was to send ten regiments of soldiers to the plains, with orders to shoot buffaloes until they became too scarce to support the redskins."[79]

Similarly, Lieutenant General John M. Schofield would write in is memoirs: "With my cavalry and carbined artillery encamped in front, I wanted no other occupation in life than to ward off the savage and kill off his food until there should no longer be an Indian frontier in our beautiful country."[80] Later, president Ulysses S. Grant vetoed the act of congress HR 921, which would have implemented protections against white overhunting of buffalo.[81] Prior to this, Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano, had stated the following regarding complaints about whites hunting buffalo on native reservations:[82]

"While I would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from our western prairies, in its effect on the Indians, regarding it rather as a means of hastening their sense of dependence upon the products of the soil and their own labors, yet these encroachments by the whites upon the reservations set apart for the exclusive occupancy of the Indian is one prolific source of trouble in the management of the reservation Indians, and measures should be adopted to prevent such trespasses in the future, or very serious collisions may be the result."

Demonstrating clearly that he saw white poaching of bison as a problem only because it may lead to retaliations from the Indians, and on the contrary, that he saw the extermination of the buffalo as potentially beneficial in the forced assimilation of Indians.

According to Professor David Smits: "Frustrated bluecoats, unable to deliver a punishing blow to the so-called 'Hostiles', unless they were immobilized in their winter camps, could, however, strike at a more accessible target, namely, the buffalo. That tactic also made curious sense, for in soldiers' minds the buffalo and the Plains Indian were virtually inseparable."[79]

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it was a general tactic used by whites to hurt the indians, not some kind of holocaust-tier master plan to genocide the buffalo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351715)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23778229

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351478)

https://www.target.com/p/american-serengeti-by-dan-flores-hardcover/-/A-89010824?ref=tgt_adv_xsp&AFID=google&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012790841&CPNG=PLA_Entertainment%2BShopping%7CEntertainment_Ecomm_Hardlines&adgroup=SC_Entertainment&LID=700000001230728pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=s&device=c&location=&targetid=pla-4585100929127865&ds_rl=1246978&ds_rl=1248099&msclkid=e1ae3a70b2e81f3370d05e1e0b72c803&gclid=e1ae3a70b2e81f3370d05e1e0b72c803&gclsrc=3p.ds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351958)

What did you do? Eat some $28 NYC soyburger to protect the buffalo? go back to Jinjiang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351950)

white men still killing bison. 🤠🔫🦬😵🤷‍♂️

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46351955)

Ljl at lazy park officials

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46352040)

fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46353952)

surprised so many posters don't care and try to shift blame to indians for pushing some minor level of herds off cliffs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46353965)

They didn't go instinct. You can still get Bison tongue if you want. It's not that hard to order online.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5345326&forum_id=2#46354230)