Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . to be mercilesslymassacred by their savage pursuers. It is a well-known fact, that several years sincenearly a hundred buffaloes attempted to cross Lacqui Parle, in Minnesota, upon the ice,which not being sufficiently strong to bear so enormous a pressure, gave way, and thewhole number miserably perished. The meat furnished a supply of food for manyweeks to t
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . to be mercilesslymassacred by their savage pursuers. It is a well-known fact, that several years sincenearly a hundred buffaloes attempted to cross Lacqui Parle, in Minnesota, upon the ice,which not being sufficiently strong to bear so enormous a pressure, gave way, and thewhole number miserably perished. The meat furnished a supply of food for manyweeks to the people at the neighbormg trading-post, as well as to the Indians and tothe wolves and foxes. By these various methods, and by others which might be designated, are the buffiilocircumvented to their destruction. The Indians are notoriously improvident andcruelly wanton in the disposition they indulge to destroy game of any and every kind,even when not impelled by necessity; and I regret to repeat that their white brethrenare not behind them in this particular. I have seen buffalo and elk slaughtered forno other purpose than to obtain the tongues and marrow-bones, the remainder of thecarcase being left uncared for and
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