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].’”
Buffalo Dusk BY CARL SANDBURG
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone. Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and
how they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone. And the buffaloes are gone.