bison hunting
Chasing prairie bovines
Bison hunting is the pursuit and killing of bison, historically central to Plains Indian cultures and later a commercial enterprise that nearly drove American bison to extinction.
The mass slaughter of the 1870s-80s eliminated tens of millions of animals, devastating Indigenous peoples who depended on them.
Modern bison hunting exists in limited, regulated form.
- bow and arrowRanged weapon using tension
- Great PlainsCentral North American grassland
- Plains tribesIndigenous groups of grasslands
- pemmicanConcentrated portable meat provisions
- meat dryingPreserving flesh through dehydration
decoys · horseback riding · camouflage · winter kill · overhunting · creation myths · frontier expansion · nomadic lifestyles · spears · hide tanning · sacred animals · sacred ceremony · oral traditions · rifles · traps · stalking techniques · Lakota · fur trade
- Canadian Westpemmican, Hudson's Bay Company, voyageurs, coureurs des bois, Northwest Territories
- indigenous lifewaysthree sisters, tribal customs, pemmican, wild rice, fishing practices
- Plains IndigenousCree, Blackfoot, Dakota, Lakota, tipi
- Plains TribesSioux, Lakota, Cheyenne, Dakota, Arapaho
- Prehistoric Americamammoth, mastodon, dire wolf, megafauna, Paleo-Indians
- prehistoric huntingspear, hunter-gatherers, stone tools, spear thrower, projectile points
bison huntingcattle ranching
Raising bovines commercially
livestock farming · cattle herding · animal husbandry · dairy farming · sheep farming
bison huntingfarming
Cultivating land for food
crop cultivation · agriculture · grain farming · homesteading · vegetable gardening