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[|Buffalo Slaughter]


In this picture (below) it looks a though Indians slaughtered the buffalo themselves but really the Indians used every part of the buffalo and the Americans slaughtered the buffalo. There are three phases to the indian removal. There were battles and peace plans, but both of those phases failed. Since the first two phases failed, they turned to the one thing the Indians life revolved Buffalo. Buffalo the most important thing to Indians. They used every part of the buffalo for something resourceful. ===

 "It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was." -Buffalo Bill "My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round." -Buffalo Bill

Many men killed the buffalo, but one of the most famous of them is [|William "Buffalo Bill" Cody]. Cody got his nickname because he slaughtered 4,280 buffalo in seventeen months. The dead buffalo were used for their meat to feed rail road workers.

"There is no question that, so long as are millions of buffaloes in the West...the Indians cannot be controlled, even by the strong arm of the Government." -Texas Representative James Throckmorton in 1876.

After the buffalo slaughter Indians were forced to accept the Dawes Act and own land and produce crops the American way. Indians lost their cultural differences from Americans because they had to dress and talk like Americans. Indians were disciplined in a horrible way. In no way were the Indians disturbing us Americans. The buffalo slaughter never should have happened because the Indians didn't deserve it.

Questions and Answers

What did the Indians rely on buffalo for? Everything. Meat, hairbrushes, clothes, headdresses, utensils, etc. This is why the government killed the buffalo.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What did James Throckmorton say about Indian culture? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Throckmorton basically said that we cannot destroy the Indians unless <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">we destroy the buffalo which is the source of the Indians everything.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Why was this phase successful? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This phase was successful because when the buffalo was destroyed, <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the Indians lost the one thing that their life revolved around. The buffalo <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">were the source of the Indians everything and it being taken away destroyed <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the Indians life.

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