Already confronted with disease and alcoholism, prairie natives faced a final assault on their way of life: the slaughter of the buffalo in the late 1800s ... following the herds across the ...

The Cree, the Ojibways, the Saulteus, the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic lives, hunting the vast buffalo herds across the land. By the mid-1800s, times began to change.

as is seen in recent disease outbreaks that once again threaten the hard-fought buffalo herd numbers to a severe degree not seen since the 1800s. . We must make a decision about how we are going ...

Numbering an estimated 30 million in the early 1800s, the herds began declining for a variety of reasons, including the lucrative buffalo robe trade, the steady westward settlement of an expanding ...

Some herds can number in the thousands, making them almost impenetrable to even the most skilled lion pride. Even smaller buffalo herds, however, often have the advantage over lions. Healthy ...