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fun fact.
The US army gave people ammunition for free if it was used to kill bison for a period of time.
Bison almost went extinct.
Bison were a source of food for the natives.
I love american history!
Every 50 bison they killed they celebrated a bisontennial.
Bye son
this is awfull (of bones)
i tried, i'm not sorry
Boooo!
Boocentennial?
The official reason was the Bison herds were capable of destroying the fields of entire farms. We never stopped to ask if we should have been farming there in the first place.
I think they did stop to ask, and the answer they gave themselves was "yes".
Certainly at every step of the way since we keep answering yes, despite all evidence to the contrary.
were bison known for like, destroying fences or something? Or did we just not think of building fences lmao.
Farmers don't usually fence in their fields. You're thinking of live stock farming.
Correlation, causation, too many big words.
Which word was to big for you?
"The"
Killing off the Buffalo, which was a source of food, clothing and other vital cultural resources for many indigenous cultures, was an official government policy to destroy those cultures. Couple more words; ecocide, genocide.
history goes a little wacky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#