Buffalo Slaughter to Starve the Indigenous People of the Great Plains

Lisa K.

This factsheet discusses the sacredness of the buffalo to the Great Plains Indigenous peoples and the attempted colonial Buffalo Genocide.

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Gast, John. American Progress. Autry Museum of the American West, 1872, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress.
Hubbard, T. (2014). Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth-Century North America: Kill, Skin, and Sell. In Andrew Woodford, Jeff Benvenuto & Alexander Laban Hinton (Eds.), Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (pp. 292-305). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11sn770.17.
Standing Rock Protestors Report Wild Buffalo Sighting. Snopes. 28, Oct. 2016, https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/10/28/standing-rock-buffalo-sighting/.

John Gast, Kim LaCapria, Tasha Hubbard

Bison, Buffalo, Canada's Colonial History, Canadian settler colonialism, caretakers of the land, Colonial settlement, Colonial Violence, Colonialism, Environmental Racism, European Settlers, Extermination, genocide, imperialism, Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigenous teachings, keystone species, Land and Power, Land Dispossession, land theft, life, Racist Violence, railways, respect, sacred buffalo teachings, sacred relations, Settler Colonialism, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Settlers, State Sanctioned Violence, White Supremacy

Canada, Great Plains, Turtle Island, US

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