Excerpt from The Coming Back of the Bison Impounding bison was the whole-ale and wasteful method of killing employed by the Aanlniboin. Plainu-crug and other lmliun tribe-n ot the -t. A method which allow-d all member oi the tribe. Even the women and children. To he In at the death. The pound wan conutrnt'led of logs and its: gate placed under a ledge down which the bison rould jump but which was too high for them to climb ulnin. Tfrom thin gate a (in-nhlped runway nev onl mill-u out into the plain war eon-traded by mean ...
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Excerpt from The Coming Back of the Bison Impounding bison was the whole-ale and wasteful method of killing employed by the Aanlniboin. Plainu-crug and other lmliun tribe-n ot the -t. A method which allow-d all member oi the tribe. Even the women and children. To he In at the death. The pound wan conutrnt'led of logs and its: gate placed under a ledge down which the bison rould jump but which was too high for them to climb ulnin. Tfrom thin gate a (in-nhlped runway nev onl mill-u out into the plain war eon-traded by mean of hum-h oi ltl'nm'lw'l and hu-hea. Known an d men. Lined up titty feet apart. Behind the-e dead men the indinnu hid and lrightened both the herd whenever It uhowed sign: of de arting from the trnelt. After the bin-on had been ntampeded into the pen the tribe nthered around to slay the rinht-tnnddened animals which charged wildly about rruahinf and tom-in, one another. Several hundred ml ht he killed by this method in a linfit' tour. The illuntration in mm it fit! (engraved iram l photo graph) in lnd'n Narrative of the Canadian Red iwr Exploring Expedition 0. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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