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What did the Indians use from the buffalo?
The Indians used almost every piece of the buffalo in one way or another.
‘It gave its life so Indians could live. The buffalo’s generosity provided Indians with food and shelter. Indian people modeled the buffalo’s generosity, and it became fundamental to the economy of the American Indian.’
Richard B. Williams ~Oglala Lakota
The Daily Republican, June 19, 1885
KILLED FOR THEIR HIDES (extract)
At nearly every station on the railroad, last year could be seen piled up for shipment the chaotic anatomy of thousands of buffaloes. Cattlemen were paid $2 and $3 a wagon load for them Cowboys with little else to do, and even lazy Indians with an eye to the almighty dollar went into the scavenger business and collected buffalo bones for lucre. For months car load after car load, to the number of thousands, passed eastward to Minnesota, Indiana, and Illinois, where they were turned to account as fertilizers. Even the skulls and bones that surveyors have stood up as sighting points have been picked up and carted off, such is the demand for them. Delivered at the factories the farmers are worth $25 a ton, the freight charges ranging from $8 to $10 per ton. Horns alone bring $40 a ton and are extensively used by makers of umbrellas and fans. From a portion of the head, glue is obtained, and the neck bones and shoulder blades are worked up into the popular buffalo horn buttons. A great many of our buffalo bones, horns, and hoofs are annually shipped to England, and, after being turned over once or twice by the cutlery factories of Sheffield, come back to us in the shape of fine knife handles and other articles of finished cutlery. England also imports great quantities of beef shanks for the manufacturing of fertilizers.
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New York
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Montana
(On a personal note, I completely disagree with bison being used in rodeos. I am seeing it happening more and more, usually in New Mexico)
Frederick News Post
The bison was delivered to a local meat processor and the head to a local taxidermist. It was decided not to send any of the meat back to Maryland for ...
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Texas
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South Dakota
Mellette mural is where bison roam, brown bears play.
I inserted links to try and cover the building.
Aberdeen News - Daily Leader - Daily Leader
Herald Standard
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Kansas
Zoo News: Construction of bison exhibit has begun
Great Bend Tribune
Construction of the future bison exhibit is underway at the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo!
Eby Construction of Wichita was awarded the $443,820 contract this spring for the construction/renovation of the former bison exhibit at the western edge of the zoo. This is the same firm that renovated the grizzly bear exhibit.
The City of Great Bend’s Public Lands and Public Works departments will also be doing some of the work.
The Dorothy M. Morrison Foundation has been a significant financial contributor to both projects.
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Maryland
Frederick News Post
The bison was delivered to a local meat processor and the head to a local taxidermist. It was decided not to send any of the meat back to Maryland for ...
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Colorado
Discovery Channel Founder Asks $279M For Gateway Canyons Ranch
Patch.com
GATEWAY, CO — A Colorado property that looks like it's straight off an epic ... A bison herd can often be seen wandering across the property, listing ...8,700 acres-$279 million
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Minnesota
Midwest briefs
PostBulletin.com
The Minnesota Industrial Hemp Association, a non-profit trade association, has been ... will showcase a diverse grass-based farm that produces bison, beef cattle and ... To register or for more information, go to www.sfa-mn.org/soil. |
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Oregon
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New Mexico
Museum offers journey through New Mexico history
Youngstown Vindicator Hundreds of items representing centuries of New Mexico history will be on display as part of a new exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum.
The items range from letters written by outlaw Billy the Kid to more contemporary objects that are part of the Palace of the Governors extensive collection.
– is like a journey through time that starts with the 1700s.
Items in the exhibit include photographs from 1843, just years after the invention of photography, as well as a printing press and a rare painting on bison hide that depicts the 1720 defeat of Spanish troops and their allies in present-day Nebraska.
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Kentucky
Bison Uses Car With People Inside to Scratch Itch in Kentucky
Inside Edition
A bison just couldn't scratch his itch. So he sought help from a nearby car, leaning into the vehicle to use it as a scratch post at a bison range in Kentucky. Needless to say, the occupants were a little worried. "He's gonna jump on the car," one panicked person says. Fortunately, the bison eventually stopped and no damage was done to the car. There's been no word on whether that itch was scratched. |
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Wisconsin
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Canada
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Tribal
Tribal ranches: too much or not enough?
Navajo Times
(While the tribal ranch program was instituted to help Navajo ranchers, Big Bo ... Lessees are not allowed to live on the tribal ranches, which Notah says ... non-Navajo folks who are running the 200-odd head of cattle and 900 bison. |
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Archaeological
For Sale: A Bison's Skull Straight From the Ice Age
Atlas Obscura
Last year, scientists in Alaska ate extinct steppe bison in a stew, taken from the frozen remains known as Blue Babe. (“It tasted a little bit like what I ...
Area Attractions
Rapid City Journal
A Nebraska Park permit is required. ... Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed ... Over 10,000 years ago, hundreds of bison were killed mysteriously at this ... |
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Ecological
Is Grass-Fed Beef Really Better For The Planet? Here's The Science
NPR
But some advocates say there is a way to eat meat that's better for the planet and better ... Think of the hordes of bison that once roamed the prairies.
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Misc
THE WEST
If you’re dumb, writes John Kelly in the Washington Post, “there are lots of good ways to have a bad time at a national park. … I’m amazed anyone gets out of Yellowstone alive.” Kelly asked readers to share their most bizarre observations, so Bridget Collins recounted how she’d seen a tourist stop his car and run across the road to take photos of a sleeping bison. “He was three feet away at most,” she later told a ranger. “If the bison attacked, I wanted to testify on behalf of the bison.” Another reader saw a family advancing on a herd of elk, video camera in hand: “I hear a scream, I look down and see a bull elk with a camcorder hooked on his splendid rack as he charged the tourists and chased them across the meadow. I felt bad for the animal.” Yet another described how a woman stepped off the boardwalk to pose near a hot springs for a photo. If she’d broken through the crust, “she would have been parboiled.” It’s not just Yellowstone, either. Maybe the scariest thing happened at Nevada’s Hoover Dam: A mother wanted a dramatic photo, so she placed her screaming 5-year-old on a wall with a 700-foot drop. Luckily, the child stayed upright.
Aggressive Bison Rams Horn into SUV Door
These guys were driving out of their home town, and came across a group of bison roaming about in their route. They were caught in a line of traffic when they saw one of the bulls ram his horns into a car's door in front of them. They quickly rolled up their window to prevent any imminent danger. Video
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Yellowstone
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