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Omg, any more info on this photo?
You could probably reverse search it but it's just two buffalo hunters standing on a pile of skulls. Impressive, yet standard wild west shit. That photo is in a lot of books and on a lot of websites.
Yeah, I just did a quick search that turned this up as the most likely place to find more info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile,_ca1870.png
but I've seen this photo probably hundreds of times in a bunch of different textbooks and articles over the years
America killed all of the buffalo to starve the indigenous. It was part of the genocide and the manifest destiny colonial expansion project
Industrial scale hunting with the "convenient side effect" of destroying the primary food source for the native population - thus making it easier to expand and occupy the land.
No convenience about it. General Sherman is "accredited" for hunting them with explicit intent of starving the Native Americans.
Yep it was genocide for manifest destiny
its from the 1800s, where they massacred the great bison herd of the plains. they were originally on the brink of extinction.
I saw this photo in person last week at a museum in Dodge City, Kansas. Man will exploit any and all resources with little regard for the consequences.
The bison fur coat from the 1800s was neat though.