The great US plan to exterminate the buffalo and starve out the native peoples

 

US LAND GRAB POLICY AGAINST THE NATIVE PEOPLE. 

The great US plan to exterminate the buffalo and starve out the native peoples

During the 1800s, the U.S. Army realised that destroying the buffalo herds aided their efforts to force indigenous peoples onto reservations. The government of the US realised that as long as this food source was there, and as long as this key cultural element existed, it would have difficulty getting Indians onto reservations.

Colonel Richard I. Dodge in 1867 at Fort McPherson, Nebraska, said to a group of British hunters: "Kill every buffalo you can. Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone. “

The self-righteous US administration called the native people ‘savages’ yet their genocidal ways and plan to exterminate the buffalo proved beyond doubt that the real savages wore smart uniforms, not tribal head dress.

The government believed that the hasty disappearance of game from the former hunting-grounds must operate principally in favour of their efforts to confine the Indians to smaller areas, and force them to jettison their ancient, nomadic, traditional, customs.

For many thousands of years buffalo had served as the primary food source and the livelihood for many Native Americans.

The great buffalo massacre by settlers of European descent is recognised as an infamous ecological catastrophe. Of the estimated 30 million buffalo that wandered the Great Plains in the 1850s, only a few thousand remained in isolated pockets in 1883.

Buffalo were the Indians’ lifeline. They had a symbiotic relationship with them. They honoured the powerful beasts for the countless blessings they provided for the tribe. To the tribal peoples these animals were as important as the sun and rain, for their very survival depended upon them.

In October 1868, General Sheridan write to General Sherman that their best hope to control the Native Americans is to “make them poor by the destruction of their stock, and then settle them on the lands allotted to them.” The plan was clearly to starve them out!

Sheridan’s wicked proposal to exterminate a whole animal species clearly displays the gross level of shameful depravity in mankind, within that tragic situation.

Professional hunters trespassing on sacred Indian lands killed over four million bullalo by 1874. The popular US folk hero, “Buffalo Bill” Cody, is implied to have killed 4,282 buffalo in 18 months.

Most of the animals killed were reportedly left to rot where they fell.

This entire situation must have been one of the worse crimes again nature ever committed!

A gun – happy nation with many damaged egos holding a loathing for the native peoples, and millions of large innocent animals to mow down like grass in a field. What heroes they truly were!

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