Reading an intriguing book the other day, I was reminded of our species’ inability to restrain our use of technology. The book is Bison and People on the North American Great Plains and contributors include historians, archeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists and Native American perspectives. It describes the history of the buffalo
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The Disaffected Lib: The Buffalo’s Revenge
America’s historic bread basket, the Great Plains, is just about finished. Like the Canadian prairie, the Great Plains was a massive expanse of grassland inhabited by migratory creatures and native tribes that moved with them. Then the white man showed up. First to go were the buffalo, next the Indians.
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