Comments on: Introduction

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:24:52 +0000

I just love buffalo they are awsome my husband loves them.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:58:38 +0000

for a better understanding contact the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve to find michael muchnock’s book and music cd titled WHITE BUFFALO SPIRIT and the WHITE BUFFALO MESSAGE dvd recorded there.also contact the Senator John Heinz History Center

By: Marissa

Marissa — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:59:05 +0000

What did the buffalo say to her son? Bison

By: Elizabeth Lee

Elizabeth Lee — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:32:34 +0000

Hello you guys should read El Chino there is some bullfighting And By Allen Say!Well if you are a kid read it…AKA PICTURE BOOK!!!It is from Ms.Britto’s student she read El Chino.I m not a bull fighter only student!!!!!!!!!

By: koln

koln — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:08:50 +0000

i love buffalo they are great ive seen a lot in south dakota

By: 3Hawks

3Hawks — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:57:27 +0000

Jade…remember the natives at that time had no horses…I would like to see you feed your family with only a bow and arrow and no way to drive to a store. Buffalo Jumps were a necessity to eat, but much ceremony and honor was given the animals..nothing wasted. How much do you waste each day? Tribes were not wasteful…that was a trait of settlers and by the way, rounding up a ton of buffalo would only be one…yes…LEARN history…and even now you will see ranchers who are so afraid of buffalo meat being better than beef that they lure them out of the parks and kill them for protection of their own money. Perhaps you could go to the Nez Perce and spend some time with them…learn our old ways and open your eyes. When over 60,000,000 buffalo were destroyed in a mere two decades something was going on…if you killed one thousand a day it would take 164 years to bring them to near nothing but this was done between 1870-1890. Yes…check your REAL history…not your history. Native kills did not diminish the herds. Hope this helps.

By: Drayden Butterfield

Drayden Butterfield — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:06:53 +0000

How many buffaloes are in Kansas?

By: Drayden Butterfield

Drayden Butterfield — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:59:52 +0000

I did not know bison weighed a ton. Now I am wondering how much they eat a day?

By: Jade

Jade — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:17:15 +0000

I know that white people killed off a lot of buffalo for greedy purposes, but I really get annoyed when everyone talks about how the different tribes were never wasteful and were really respectful to the buffalo. If you believe this, perhaps you should “buffalo jumps.” It’s basically where some Native Americans would round up a ton of bison and run them off a cliff. One of the most famous locations is called “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.” People need to learn that history can never be simplified down to one aspect. Yes, the white people were wrong for what they did, but that does not mean that they should be the only ones condemned for their choices.

By: John 3 Hawks

John 3 Hawks — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:19:39 +0000

The slaughter of the Buffalo is a sad part of American history and indicative of social greed and quest for power over another people. Settlers came and stole land from the First People and nearly destroyed an entire species. We can regret the past, but it is important to know that even today ranchers lure Bufflao out of park boundries at Yellowstone in the winter to kill them. Their logic is that the Buffalo are a threat to the cattle industry…again…greed still alive and well. The quest for ‘the yellow metal that makes men crasy’ (a dollar) has not diminished. The way the Buffalo were treated is ongoing with the way Native people are treated on reservations such as Pine Ridge and the Rosebud. As Jane noted, a public apology would be a good thing, but words mean nothing without action for sure. Native people live ‘with’ nature…not above nature. We would be well to remember that we need the bugs, plants, trees, animals and birds to keep nature in good balance, yet not one of them needs a human to do this. We are part of nature….not apart from. The near extinction of the Buffalo should be a wake up call to human destructive ways. There is a saying, I believe it may be Cree, that goes something like this: “Only when the last tree has been cut down, only when the last river has been poisoned, only when the last fish has been caught, only then will you realize your money cannot be eaten.”