Bison – Turtle Talk

But most of all, white American settlers moving west with the railroads killed millions, both for sport and for hides to sell to markets both domestic and foreign. Federal authorities, Isenberg writes, “supported the hunt because they saw the extermination of the bison as a means to force Indians to submit to the reservation system.”

Dreveskracht on Montana’s War against the Bison (and Montana Indian Country)

May 13, 2013Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here.

An excerpt:

To ward off the threat of brucellosis transmission to livestock and humans, the Montana state legislature has introduced five bills aimed at ridding the state of its free-ranging bison.[8] This legislation is expressly inclusive of all of both Montana Indian Country and off-Reservation Treaty-protected lands. History repeats itself as non-tribal government once again threatens to take the buffalo from Native Americans, particularly Great Plains Indian Treaty Peoples. Indian leaders from the Fort Peck, Crow, and Fort Belknap Reservations have joined forces with wildlife advocates, sportsmen’s groups, and conservationists to oppose the bills.[9] This article discusses the arguments of both sides, and examines the validity of Montana’s proposed legislation vis-à-vis Indian inherent sovereignty and Treaty rights.