https://blog.nativehope.org/how-the-destruction-of-the-buffalo-impacted-native-americans
That is a pile of buffalo skulls. And this is yet another example of how the West weaponizes food to get what it wants.
“On 26 June 1869, the prestigious Army-Navy Journal reported that ‘General Sherman remarked, in conversation the other day, that the quickest way to compel the Indians to settle down to civilized life was to send ten regiments of soldiers to the plains, with orders to shoot buffaloes until they became too scarce to support the [natives].’”
I learned a bunch about the history of colonialism in school in Klanada, including the near-extinction of the bison. What we weren’t taught was that it was an intentional act to starve the indigenous peoples. It was played off as naieve European settlers cluelessly using their powerful firearms to hunt more bison than the indigenous peoples never could.