native americans & the buffalo
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Native Americans & The Buffalo. US History: Spiconardi . Causes of the Buffalo’s Decline. Buffalo herds often ripped up train track and caused a problem for the railroads . The Railroads. Hunted Buffalo Buffalo stampedes would rip up track Railroad companies would feed workers buffalo meat. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Native Americans & The Buffalo
US History: Spiconardi
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Causes of the Buffalo’s D
ecline
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Buffalo herds often ripped up train track and caused a problem for the railroads
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The Railroads
• Hunted Buffalo– Buffalo stampedes would rip up track– Railroad companies would feed workers buffalo
meat
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Tanning
Not this type!
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Many American hunters removed the buffalo hides in order to sell them, but left hundreds of thousands of carcasses to rot on the plains. This type!
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Tanning •Tanneries paid hunters $1 to $3 for hides
•Hides were sent east to be used as belts on industrial machines•Hunters often left carcasses and other potential uses of the buffalo were wasted
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“Kill every buffalo you can. Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”~A United States Army Officer
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Genocide
• Genocide The planned destruction and elimination of a particular ethnic or religious group
• Americans viewed Native Americans and Indians as a hindrance to their ambitions– The government supported policies that would
remove Indians from the path of white settlement– Wanted to Americanize Indians• Wanted to end nomadic lifestyle of Indians
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Impact of the Buffalo’s Decline
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Conflict• Tribes of the Great Plains clashed with one
another over hunting rights due to scarcity of the buffalo– Tribes were forced to hunt further from home &
often entered the territory of rival tribes• Being further from home made settlement vulnerable to
raids
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Starvation• Lack of buffalo forced Indians to rely on agriculture– If weather caused crops to fail, Indians had no food to
sustain themselves
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Loss of Traditional Culture
• Indians would have to adapt to life without the buffalo– 1850: 13 million buffalo– 1880s: less than a thousand buffalo