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Why did the U.S. Army encourage the slaughter of millions of buffalo?
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∙ 8y ago
The US Army encouraged the slaughter of millions of buffalo because the army wanted to kill Native Americans and everything that keeps them alive. The buffalo provided them with food, shelter, and are used for religious practices. Slaughtering buffaloes took this source away from the Native Americans.
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∙ 12y agoUnder the Jackson presidency there was an unspoken unwritten policy of the "only good Indian was a dead one" so the army and others did their best to remove or kill any Native Americans in Western lands. One of the primary animals that were used by the plains Native American tribes was the buffalo. The buffalo provided food, shelter, and was used in religious practice by the plains tribes. Killing the buffalo would take this source from them. Combined with raids on villages and killing all the people there ( including women and children), the piles of dead buffalo, and broken treaties the United States government hoped to remove Native American tribes to reservations or to kill them. Read " Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" or "Black Elk Speaks" for further understanding of this time in US history.
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∙ 12y agothe soldiers were going to kill bufffalo because its used for many things like cloths,food and etc.
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∙ 12y agoTo starve the Indians.
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∙ 11y agoSettle down in one place.
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∙ 10y agothey were hungry.
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