... economy placed unsustainable pressures on bison herds by the 1870s. One of the values of this study, according to the author, is that it allows for a comparison of the commercial hunting of bison for their hides in the United States with that of bison for pemmican in the British West. In contrast...

...). The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. By Andrew C. Isenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii + 206 pp., introduction, maps, index. $24.95 cloth.) Jon T. Coleman, Yale University...

...Dan Flores [email protected] Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains . By R. Grace Morgan ; foreword by James Daschuk ; afterword by Cristina Eisenberg . ( Regina, SK : University of Regina Press , 2020 . 334 pp., figures...

...Peter Mitchell Abstract Recent studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Comanches have argued that their dependence on bison posed a serious nutritional challenge in the form of a dangerously imbalanced high-protein diet. They contend that this specialization required Comanches to obtain...

... this was predominantly an oral genre and, less frequently, one that employed pictographs drawn on tanned bison hides as mnemonic devices. The article focuses on the continued relevance of a genre steeped in the oral tradition. It argues that despite having access to writing and familiarity with Western historical genres...

...Cody Newton This article analyzes the unusual trading post concentration—Fort Vasquez, Fort Jackson, Fort Lupton, and Fort St. Vrain—that operated simultaneously along the South Platte River during the late 1830s. These trading posts, or forts, dealt almost exclusively in bison robes provided...

... and judiciousness to support their communities. The first is the 1851 Battle of Grand Coteau between the Yanktonais Sioux and a Métis and Anishinaabe bison-hunting party. The second is a Métis trading family negotiating with Lakota in the late 1870s through the actions of Sarah Nolin. In this article, we survey key...

... pushed the bison farther west, destroyed or claimed grass and wood, peddled whiskey, and brought more disease to the tribe. This was the legacy of the Euro-American frontier, and its consequences for the Kaw included starvation, illness, death, warfare, Ethnohistory 54:3 (Summer 2007)  doi...

... scholars have argued that Indian hunters diminished the great herds of the nineteenth century. But Krech extends these arguments by quoting contemporary white critics of Indian bison hunting as if they were disinterested...

... of the nineteenth century. But Krech extends these arguments by quoting contemporary white critics of Indian bison hunting as if they were disinterested observers. After pages of bloody accounts of bison slaughter Tseng 2002.8.28 08:47...

... of the nineteenth century. But Krech extends these arguments by quoting contemporary white critics of Indian bison hunting as if they were disinterested observers. After pages of bloody accounts of bison slaughter Tseng 2002.8.28 08:47...

... beginning in the late seventeenth century. The Cree have also inspired rich scholarship on their middleman status in the fur trade and their eventual transition from pedestrian hunting and gathering in the subarctic to equestrian bison hunting on the plains. The adjacent Blackfoot were the first...

..., the near eradication of the bison deprived indigenous peoples of an essential food source as well as the equipment for mobility on the Missouri River. Indigenous women lost a transportation technology that provided access to the river channel and places along it. Colonization introduced new costs...

... diminished the bison population and heightened conflict with other Indigenous communities needing bison for sustenance. The lack of food, as Utley points out, was the contributing force behind the Lakotas returning to US-occupied territories from Canada, a move that threatened Sitting Bull’s life. While his...

... and South Dakota to the Missouri River (DeMallie 2001 : 719). Common cultural patterns centered on bison hunting are evident in the earliest written descriptions of the Sioux. 4 In 1660, for instance, Pierre-Esprit Radisson ( 1961 : 134, 142) called the Sioux “the nation of the Beef” because...

...Figure 11. Crow horses drawn after approximately AD 1860: a, bison robe in Danish National Museum, Copenhagen; b, d, e, Joliet site, Montana; c, Musselshell site (24ML1049). Illustration by author ...

...). The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. By Andrew C. Isenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii + 206 pp., introduction, maps, index. $24.95 cloth.) Jon T. Coleman, Yale University...

...). The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. By Andrew C. Isenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii + 206 pp., introduction, maps, index. $24.95 cloth.) Jon T. Coleman, Yale University...

...). The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. By Andrew C. Isenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii + 206 pp., introduction, maps, index. $24.95 cloth.) Jon T. Coleman, Yale University...