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Bison were not hunted to extinction. They were hunted almost to extinction by use of repeating rifles, revolvers, pistols, and a lot of willing participants who weren't squeamish nor hesitant about shooting an animal were it stood. Bison could be shot from the passenger cars of a train, from horse-back and from a hide-out in a coulee. Many of those who shot bison were veterans from the Civil War out to make a quick buck on the number of bison they took down so that the hides could be collected and sold for a profit.
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What are animals used to roam the prairies?
Bison roamed the prairies and were hunted by the plain Indians but they only killed a few so they would have enough bison to hunt.But when the white men came they started to hunt the bison to extinction but that didn't happen.
The picture here was taken in the 1870s. It shows men standing next to a pile of bison skulls. Americans hunted the bison during the 1800s to near extinction. This overhunting caused decreases in the?
Great Plains
What did the central plains indeans hunt?
The Native Americans or Amerindians [rather than "Indians"] of old famously hunted the huge AMERICAN BISON or AMERICAN PLAINS BISON (with the easy scientific name of Bison bison). The Native Americans hunted only as many bison as they actually needed for meat and for fur. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, American bison were hunted almost to extinction, not by the Amerindians, but by European settlers in North America. Fortunately, through conservation measures, the populations of the American bison have rebounded and it is not an endangered species any more.In similar measure, the original human inhabitants of North America, the Native American tribes, were decimated close to extinction by the European settlers, and their populations never recovered.
Why did the great plains buffalo almost become extinct?
The buffalo were nearly exterminated through wholesale butchery by whites
What men hunted?
They hunted for elk, deer, rabbits, javelinas, bear, and bison.
What Navajoes men hunted?
They hunted for elk, deer, rabbits, javelinas, bear, and bison.
What the Miami Indians hunted?
They hunted bison (buffalo).
What foods do The Metis mainly eat?
Hunted bison
Who hunted the bison?
The plains Indians and the white settlers.
What were the two main causes of the near extinction of the bison?
The two main causes of the near-extinction of the bison were 1. Habitat loss from ranching and farming, and 2. Commercial hunting.
What is happening to the chimpanzees by being hunted?
extinction
What organism has come back from edging of extinction?
ameican bison
