This is an amazing look at the slaughtering of the American bison. I don't remember now when I first heard about it, but I know the information wasn't nearly as in depth as you provide here. Thanks for taking the time and your cue from janton.
I think it's good that we get history the way it happened, or as close to it as can be done a hundred fifty or so years removed. There's way too much revisionist history going on, apparently from all sides, motivated by agendas. I find that neither helpful or honest. There's plenty to find fault about or to praise without making things up and claiming they did or didn't happen.
So, thanks for doing this. And congratulations on the curie. It was well earned. :)
Thank you for the compliment, Glen. It means a lot coming from you. I assumed that following the standards you set, I probably would be doing the acceptable things. Except for the tons of comments you make. I would use up my annual quota of typed words if I tried!
I remember learning about the buffalo's demise from the seventh grade.. There was a picture of an Indian riding a pony beside a buffalo while running at full tilt. The Indian had his bow drawn full preparing for a kill. I don't remember anyone mentioning the massive number of buffalo or how quickly it was all done. Having been a great cowboy wannabe back then, I'm sure I would have remembered more details had there been any.
One thing I noticed during the research was that the more recent a reference, the smaller the numbers became. Hunter counts, buffalo, Indian deaths all seem to shrink so they became unimportant, incidental events. There's no way to tell if that was intentional or not, but the shrinking buffalo herds are suspect. Modern "experts" seem to start out assuming that the people who were there at the time were not smart enough to record what was going on.
That same thing goes for any ancient archaeology: current experts know more than the ancients because what they "know" must fit the established dogma and that means no thinking outside the established box. Even ancient writings are thrown out as being allegoric if they contradict what current day experts are certain of their current interpretation of the ancient past. There is a book, Hidden Archaeology, that is filled with things that don't fit and that can get a Ph. D. professionally defrocked for discussing alternatives to established timelines to accommodate things that don't fit it.
Egyptian history is an unverifiable zoo because a few "experts" have decided what history was.
Like you, I believe that history is what it was and it's not something that should be changed to fit current day social of moral mores.