. The conservation of the wild life of Canada . Fro?7i Hind CREE INDIANS lAIPOUNDING BISON ^ m*-^. t^^*a^BB«|H|iJ^**<-^ STlLL-HUNTlNG BISONFrom the painting by J. H. Moser in tlio National Museum, Washington, D. C. THE BUFFALO OR BISON 119 dians vied with the white hunters in destroying more buffalo were destroyed than could possibly beutilized, but this could not long continue. No longer didthe prairies thunder with the sound of thousands of gallop-ing hoofs. The great herds were driven farther and fartherafield. Indians who formerly merely cut out the tonguesof their victims, if
. The conservation of the wild life of Canada . Fro?7i Hind CREE INDIANS lAIPOUNDING BISON ^ m*-^. t^^*a^BB«|H|iJ^**<-^ STlLL-HUNTlNG BISONFrom the painting by J. H. Moser in tlio National Museum, Washington, D. C. THE BUFFALO OR BISON 119 dians vied with the white hunters in destroying more buffalo were destroyed than could possibly beutilized, but this could not long continue. No longer didthe prairies thunder with the sound of thousands of gallop-ing hoofs. The great herds were driven farther and fartherafield. Indians who formerly merely cut out the tonguesof their victims, if they took any part of the carcass at all,now almost starved for want of food. In 1857 the PlainsCrees, inhabiting the country around the headwaters of theQuAppelle River, decided that, on account of the rapid de-struction of the buffalo by white men and half-breeds,they would not permit them to travel in their country, ortravel through it except for the purpose of trading for theirdried meat, pemmican, or robes. In the following year theCrees reported that between the North and the South Sas-
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