And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Quite a hardy beast, I'd say. There is a huge difference between Great Slave Lake and the Four Corners. They crossed the Rockies, Tetons, and the Allegheny.
I say that if this map is to be at all accurate, it is because the transitory paths are included. What is shown may have had a buffalo pass within 50 miles at least once.
My grandfather used to tell stories of the buffalo in the valley of the Little Tennessee when our ancestors arrived in the late 1700s. It’s not a stretch to imagine they were in Ellijay, which is only 50 or 60 miles south, as the crow flies.
Current bison population in the US today - roughly 360,000 between wild and "domestic". Pretty cool to see them in the wild. I saw some recently when driving near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota.
before the plow tore it up, the midwest prairies were lush with grass and scrub. the buffalo was the greatest biological fertilizer dispenser and overgrowth controller on the continent. the loss of the american buffalo was such a tragic waste in it's time in the 1800s. they were perfectly adapted to the life they led. I find the loss of the great herds caused by destruction of habitat and the wanton slaughter for simple greed or as an act to destroy the lifestyle of the Plains Indian, to be a sad chapter in the rush towards the pacific ocean by immigrant people arriving from europe that did not know what they were about.
I just finished Undaunted Courage and the description of the seasonal migration that the vast herds of buffalo, elk, antelope and migratory birds made every year is amazing. It's something no white men had ever seen & written about before and it's something none of us will ever see.
Consider the following theory as a plausible alternative to the 'accepted' tale of the US Gov't. destroying the buffalo herds in order to crush the Plains Indians. Reinterpreting the 1882 Bison Population Collapse: https://www.nacdnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bisoncollapse.pdf
(Old Tech) There was a study conducted a dozen or so years ago and it concluded that even without the help of the European expansion, the Buffalo were doomed to extinction simply with the use of firearms by the Natives - albeit perhaps a decade or so later. There are many stories where the Natives, with their new rifles, were able to slaughter an ever-increasing number of Buffalo, and leaving much of the meat to waste....... this is yet another example that no people are exempt from gluttony.
As well, I noticed the map doesn't show any herds in the Yukon. And yes, I have seen them with my own eyes.
Quite a hardy beast, I'd say. There is a huge difference between Great Slave Lake and the Four Corners. They crossed the Rockies, Tetons, and the Allegheny.
ReplyDeleteI say that if this map is to be at all accurate, it is because the transitory paths are included. What is shown may have had a buffalo pass within 50 miles at least once.
Buffalo in Ellijay Georgia?
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather used to tell stories of the buffalo in the valley of the Little Tennessee when our ancestors arrived in the late 1700s. It’s not a stretch to imagine they were in Ellijay, which is only 50 or 60 miles south, as the crow flies.
DeleteCurrent bison population in the US today - roughly 360,000 between wild and "domestic". Pretty cool to see them in the wild. I saw some recently when driving near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota.
ReplyDeletebefore the plow tore it up, the midwest prairies were lush with grass and scrub. the buffalo was the greatest biological fertilizer dispenser and overgrowth controller on the continent. the loss of the american buffalo was such a tragic waste in it's time in the 1800s. they were perfectly adapted to the life they led. I find the loss of the great herds caused by destruction of habitat and the wanton slaughter for simple greed or as an act to destroy the lifestyle of the Plains Indian, to be a sad chapter in the rush towards the pacific ocean by immigrant people arriving from europe that did not know what they were about.
ReplyDeleteI just finished Undaunted Courage and the description of the seasonal migration that the vast herds of buffalo, elk, antelope and migratory birds made every year is amazing. It's something no white men had ever seen & written about before and it's something none of us will ever see.
DeleteConsider the following theory as a plausible alternative to the 'accepted' tale of the US Gov't. destroying the buffalo herds in order to crush the Plains Indians.
ReplyDeleteReinterpreting the 1882 Bison Population Collapse:
https://www.nacdnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bisoncollapse.pdf
There was money in buffalo and they were there for the taking. The other effects where side effects of profit taking.
ReplyDelete(Old Tech) There was a study conducted a dozen or so years ago and it concluded that even without the help of the European expansion, the Buffalo were doomed to extinction simply with the use of firearms by the Natives - albeit perhaps a decade or so later. There are many stories where the Natives, with their new rifles, were able to slaughter an ever-increasing number of Buffalo, and leaving much of the meat to waste....... this is yet another example that no people are exempt from gluttony.
ReplyDeleteAs well, I noticed the map doesn't show any herds in the Yukon. And yes, I have seen them with my own eyes.
The Buffalo I have seen in the Yukon were bigger and black rather than brown.
DeleteSlaughtering bison by the herd using firearms is trivial. Rather than scatter when you shoot one, the herd comes to it to see what's wrong.
ReplyDeleteThere's too many people on this or any of the other known planets- were then, are now. People will -and always have -fuked up paradise. I have spoken.
ReplyDeleteAmericans, cannot pass a day without slaughtering something or someone...
ReplyDeleteYeah, ALL Americans are like that, just like all europeans are faggots.
DeleteWell, Italians maybe.
DeleteSo many stupid comments on display here.
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