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People hunted them. If you want more information, go onto some websites about it, get out a book from your local library, or ask another friend or adult.

Adding on to that, buffalo were one of the main food sources for the American Indians so they were hunted a lot. Somewhere later in history, Americans started to kill the buffalo herds more often than the American Indians and caused the population of the buffalo herds to decrease dramatically.

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