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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I think you are sadly mistaken. Between the 1830s and 1890s (maybe 1880s), the American Bison was nearly made extinct by white hunters who wanted two things from them, their hide for buffalo robes, and their tongues as a delicacy meat. In most cases, the rest of the meat (usually between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds) was left to rot. The number of bison in 50 years dropped from the millions to at most a couple thousand.
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And this was encouraged by the US Government to help in the defeat of the Plain's Tribes.
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