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Members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe are marking the return of buffalo to their reservation in central Wyoming more than a century after the animals were wiped out.
The tribe is holding a ceremony Thursday marking the release of 10 genetically pure buffalo from a federal refuge in Iowa. The National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have worked on the project.
Buffalo provided food and shelter to the Eastern Shoshone and other Indian tribes before the vast herds of the animals were slaughtered in the late 1800s.
Jason Baldes leads the buffalo restoration work for the Eastern Shoshone. He says establishing a large buffalo herd on the reservation will allow children there to experience how their ancestors traditionally used the animals and share in their spiritual importance.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 04 2016, @11:16AM
You have been properly modded troll. How many Native Americans have you worked with? In my part of the country, you can hardly avoid working with them. That doesn't even begin to count the half-breeds, quarter-breeds, or whatever else. Fact is, when you walk out on a job, you have little idea who is Indian, or how much Indian they might be. One of the people I consider to be a mentor is a half breed Apache. An MD I knew was a full blood Choctaw, as was one of the best helpers I've ever had in construction.
Wander the midwest and southwest, and try to find something that the Indian didn't help to build, whether as the architect, a contractor, or the grunt work out in the field.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @06:05PM
You have been properly modded troll.
Incorrect. The point is valid: the ancestors hunted the buffalo. No one will be hunting these buffalo. The animals will not be used in the traditional manner.
How many Native Americans have you worked with? In my part of the country, you can hardly avoid working with them.
I see. You are responding to the word "lazy" and absolutely nothing else about the post matters, because in your mind, the word "lazy" makes it a troll post.
You are an idiot. Oops. This post will be modded Troll for the word "idiot." Oh well, better make the most of it.
GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKING NIGGER
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @06:26PM
So triggered, bro!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 04 2016, @08:14PM
I shouldn't respond - but your ignorance is so irritating. The Indians still eat buffalo. In fact, they sell some of it. They even have restaurants where tourists can stop to eat a buffalo burger. There are ranches here and there, where the buffalo are raised for the meat. Some of those ranches raise "beefalo", while others raise pure bison. (personally, I think the beefalo is superior to buffalo - and on par with angus or brangus meat)
I'll grant that none of the tribes are likely to return to living in buffalo skin teepees, wandering the range in a never ending chase after the herd. Today's Indians may be somewhat wasteful, in that they may not use every particle from the carcass. But buffalo can be, and are, raised for food.
So, the Shoshone have the beginnings of a herd. Note that it won't take decades to grow the herd, bison are sexually mature at two to four years of age. They can probably start slaughtering culls in ten years or less.
This is good - it gives them just a little bit of independence, and maybe a little self pride. I'm all for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @10:24PM
Not just the Indian, but the jig and the spic can be used for manual labor in a pinch. Make America Grate.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 05 2016, @12:23AM
Ho-hum. I've been bitching for decades that we need to put whitey to work. Any sumbitch who won't pick the produce out of the fields should be cut off of welfare and other assistance. There has always been work to be done. Our grandparents did that work - what makes us any better than they were? No work, no eat. And, that goes equally for whitey, your jigs and spics, and all other groups you care to name. No work, no eat - don't want to work, then starve bitch!