bison

[SGTWAL]

From Mack's posts today,

<One reason buffalo were hunted last century was to destroy Native
American's food source and thus, their culture.

In my opinion, cattlemen are afraid of buffalo meat coming into the
market in a big way. I think they're afraid Indians might actually make
an economic success with buffalo meat. I think that's why they're so
willing to slaughter buffalo as they leave Yellowstone for easier eats,
as they've done for centuries.>

Mack, can you then explain why the largest herds of bison today belong to
whites ? Such as the ranch belonging to Ted and Jane Turner ? Also why then
are the Amerinds, in the only stories I've seen in the national media, only
pushing for a limited return of bison for ceromonial reasons ? While the
ranches producing bison for market seem all to belong to whites.

You seem to see a vast conspiracy that in the 1800's involved everyone in a
plan to destroy the Amerind culture,a conspiracy that you claim still exists
today. A conspiracy that has no documentary proof, and is hinged on the removal
of an animal as being key to the process.
A well run and organized plan that was carried out without using written
records, public motivational writings, or other efforts , to gain support, and
even with no reports in the public media pro or con to the plan. Something hard
to believe in the days of the "Yellow Press".
Yet this plan was so effective that it all but removed the bison from
america.
And it remains so intrenched that even today some shadowy group still pulls the
strings to destroy the bison and control the Amerinds.
And destroy their culture. A culture you believe was locked to the bison.
I also detect a hint of what might be racism in your posts. Not all tribes
hunted bison as a major food source, many never hunted them at all. No tribe
used the bison as a sole source of food and raw materials. Yet you seem to see
them as a culture and society that mimics the plains indians portrayed in the
fantasy world of hollywood films. A society of inefectual and limited people
who cannot grasp or adapt to change, a limited society dependant on a single
source for all that was their world.
Your attitude insults the people you would defend by reducing them to
stereotypes. Unable to stand against the" Terrible Whites" and their vast
network of conspiracies.
Racism doesn't always manifest as hatered toward a group, but can also
appear as a belittling of the group. This subtle puting down of the group,
often by so called friends, by assuming they cannot stand against the" more
powerful whites" is an even more insidious , and damaging, type of
discrimination that only serves to undermine them in their own eyes.

<You've never heard this before? Amazing.

I doubt any "paperwork" exists to implicate any federal departments.

Wayne, do you know any Indians you could talk to to get their side of the
story?

Ever heard of incriminating evidence? Well, that's what we have here.
>

No, this is the first I've heard of your conspiracy theory.
I have read a great deal on the opening of the west, and the mountainmen,
trappers, explorers, traders, wolfers, and buffalo hunters who moved among the
natives. And the developers who followed them.
I've also talked to my relatives, those claiming Amerind ties, and other,
more full blooded, Amerinds, and cannot find any who remember hearing this
theory. tho they did have a few thoughts on the corruption in the BIA.
And the correct word might at most be circumstantial not incriminating.

Wayne Langman

[THREETOE7]

Wayne, your posts almost always make a lot of sense. To that end I can only
quote Euripides, "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.3T